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Bristol's Experimental Music Listings
— 60 upcoming gigsBristol's Experimental Music Scene
It’s Bristol’s dance music that has earnt Bristol’s music scene international recognition, but the city’s playful experimentation between musicianship, electronics and sound art that is starting to gain the most traction. It's with a sigh of relief that we bid farewell to loop-pedal-powered hippies of the past and embrace the patch bays, compressors and modular synths of the future. All Bristol’s experimental music events are listed on this page.
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Bristol's Trending Live Music Venues
Exchange The Louisiana Start The Bus The Trinity Centre The Marble Factory
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The Gallimaufry
Spinny Nights
A House in the Trees + Mercys Cartel
The Gallimaufry
SN#10 A House in the Trees / Mercy's Cartel [FR££]
Trip-hop indebted collective.
The Canteen
Mermaid Chunky
With only their robotic cat, a table full of musical nick nacks and a riot of musical ideas Freya Tate and Moina Leahy.
Crofters Rights
Naxatras [GRC] // Gnob // Derelics
Greece's notorious hard psychedelic rock band, Naxatras finally grace Snuff Lane for a rare Bristol performance!
LEFTBANK
The Leftbank Jam Band
Our Open Jam hosted by the LBJBs
The Brunswick Club
THE ART OF MAGIC
Folklore Tapes and The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic present…
Take Five Cafe
Floor Function: Ifeoluwa & Luma
Floor Function return to Take 5 with Ifeoluwa (NTS/404 ) and Luma (More Than)
Crofters Rights
Fractal 5th Anniversary with Pariah + Residents
Come and celebrate our 5th Anniversary with Pariah and our residents
Dare To Swing
Halloween Evolved featuring Alex Jann [Live]
Our Halloween Haunted Extravaganza
Corner 77
Translations
Prudent Primate // LYLE! // Open Jam
LEFTBANK
Hippo
Jazz from the future.
The Gallimaufry
Satta Lites w/ Titus 12 (Zam Zam)
Beats, bumps & bass
The Old England Pub
Totality Fuckery Witchcraft Halloween All Dayer
Totality resurrects Fuckery Witchcraft with 13 completely rad bands from all over the fucking place. This will slay.
Motion
In:Motion - Knee Deep In Halloween
Knee deep in Bristol.
The Trap
Tyranny - Halowe'en Special!
WELCOME TO THE ASYLUM HALLOWE'EN SPECIAL! Bristol's Monthly Goth and Industrial stomp fest returns for a rampaging Hallowe'en special!
Exchange
Dead Meadow '20th Anniversary Show'
Fuzzy, garage-psych rockers DEAD MEADOW celebrate their '20th Anniversary'.
The Old Market Assembly
HENGE
WE COME IN THE NAME OF RAVE. WE BRING YOU THE GIFT OF COSMIC DROSS - A KIND OF MUSIC NEW TO YOUR WORLD.
Bristol
Strictly Yes : [Transitions] w/ Reflec
Fusion of UK and Berlin inspired techno from CLERGY label heavyweight, Reflec.
The Old England Pub
RRS' Sweet 16
Cardfunknoise Birthday Celebrations
The Gallimaufry
Lewis Creaven's Dharma Blues
with Nick Robinson and Jordan Woollgar
The Canteen
Chiminyo
Mister Chiminyo has a drum kit like no other. With nifty gizmology and clever dubstep-style beats, prepare to groove like crazy.
The Lanes
evil:live - The Evil Usses with support from EP/64
The Evil Usses attempt to capture the essence of their live performance with the help of EP/64 and you..
Fringe Jazz
DUNMALL / DRAKE QUINTET
Two acknowledged masters of the World of Jazz and Improvisation in one band.
The Brunswick Club
The Brunswick Club: I Will Survive
A celebration of the past/future of the Brunswick w/ experimental music and workshops
Exchange
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
Japanese Psych-Rock Titans
The Brunswick Club
Limpe Fuchs & FACS (ex-Dissapears)
Experimental percussion and monochromatic post-punk in the former working-mans club
The Gallimaufry
Mike Dennis (Edge in Wordways tour)
Bristol's rapping violinist on his hometown date
The Brunswick Club
MARIA CHAVEZ / BLUFF / BELL LUNG
BEEF and Bang The Bore are pleased to host the return of New York’s premiere avant-turntablist to Bristol.
Cafe Kino
Silencio. A night of ambient music.
The Grey Area presents an evening of ambient music from Bristol based artists.
Arnolfini
DRIFT feat. KYOKA / GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER / YTAC
A hyper-sensory AV experience with artists from the legendary Raster label
The Black Swan
Hoodlum Hi-Fi w/ CULPRATE, VORSO, SORROW, VELLUM
Hoodlum Hi-Fi brings through some big guns for a blend of DnB, Neuro Hop, Halftime, Garage, 4x4 & general left-field experimental madness.
Church of St. Thomas the Martyr
Jerusalem In My Heart, Porest & Sunun
An evening of post-Global sonics in a grand city-centre church.
Arnolfini
Room 237 w/ Claro Intelecto, Varg, Gábor Lázár
Techno & electro in Bristol's prestigious art gallery
The Brunswick Club
Emmanuelle Waeckerle and Tom Abba
Emmanuelle Waeckerle and Tom Abba: experimental literature
The Marble Factory
In:Motion / Deadmau5
Deadmau5 returns to bristol after a 10 year hiatus.
Crofters Rights
IdleGod 0.5 EP Launch Gig W/ JAM FACTORY & Haytor
Bristol solo artist IdleGod's debut gig which will be showcasing the release of his first EP "0.5"
Cafe Kino
Macari/Brice/Woodhead + Grigg/Hitchens/Lash/Magda
Freely Improvised Music
The Cube
Barbara Morgenstern + Rosena
Visionary folktronica from Berlin + support from Bristol's own
Crofters Rights
Blue Orchids/Flux Capacitors/Short Stories
Founding member of The Fall, Martin Bramah, with his band Blue Orchids.
The Plough Inn
Random HiFi at The Plough
Keep it RaNdOm Easton Styleee
The Brunswick Club
Experimental Animation Workshop: series of 4
Fun, instructive, deeply creative and different animation
Rough Trade Bristol
Rakta
Brazilian face melters!
The Louisiana
Still Corners
Dreamy Sub Pop outfit, soon to release their fourth LP 'Slow Air'
To The Moon
Siegfried Translator
We welcome Siegfried Translator to play an array of asian, middle eastern, african records plus psychedelic oddities, poost punk & jaz
The Brunswick Club
Hen Ogledd + Glorias Navales
Richard Dawson's band project with harpist Rhodri Davies and friends present their album 'Mogic' out in November on Weird World/Domino
Take Five Cafe
Ausgang #01
A night of forward-thinking, electic techno at Take Five, Stokes Croft
BS5 7UZ
Strictly Yes : [Transitions] w/ Nur Jaber
Heavy-hitting techno from Berlin based prodigy, Nur Jaber; drawing on inspiration from her homeland of Beirut.
The Old England Pub
The Grey Area presents: Fiera & Coims
Experimental Spanish Post-Punk
The Gallimaufry
Lewis Creaven's Dharma Blues
with Nick Robinson and Jordan Woollgar
Jam Jar
SN#13: Yama Warashi // Album Launch
Mythical psychedelic jazz.
The Cube
Jozef Van Wissem + Winter Ghost
Avant Garde composer and Cannes Film Festival Soundtrack Award winner for best score for "Only Lovers Left Alive" comes to the Cube!
The Cube
Cinema of the Imagination: Gilgamesh
Crick Crack Club performance storytelling brings its wild haven of fairytales for grown-ups, myth & epic at the Cube.
Rough Trade Bristol
DUDS
The duddymen duds duds duds
Unitarian Hall
Eric Chenaux + The Declining Winter
Super double-bill
Cafe Kino
OUT-TAKE Ensemble
An evening of experimental music and performance
The Brunswick Club
AJA / GSY!PA
Raucous and Noisy
The Brunswick Club
CZN - Bellies! - EP/64
Valentina Magaletti & João Pais Filipe - Bellies! - EP/64
The Cube
Tashi Wada Group
ft. Julia Holter & Corey Fogel
Crofters Rights
Nest Egg
Fuzz Club fire alarms terror Nest Egg are more than ready for their Bristol debut!
Motion
In:Motion - Skream Open To Close
Skream. All Night Long.