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Bristol's Experimental Music Listings
— 47 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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LEFTBANK
The Leftbank Jam Band
Our Open Jam hosted by the LBJBs
The Wardrobe Theatre
DoppelDänger by She Goat
Baroque-pop theatre gig about dangerous doubling made by real-life doppelgängers
The Cube
Bonnacons of Doom
Enigmatic Doom Combo
The Old England Pub
Kukangendai, theskyisthinaspaperhere & GUESTS!
Experimental 3 piece from Japan. FREE ENTRY!
Cafe Kino
Liquid Library Presents a Night of Sonic Wisdom.
COIMS 'Centers Parting' Cassette Launch
Crofters Rights
My Octopus Mind + Okay Leader + Prudent Primate
Tripsy Balsy Post Experimental psy grunge
The Wardrobe Theatre
DoppelDänger by She Goat
Baroque-pop theatre gig about dangerous doubling made by real-life doppelgängers
The Cube
Michael Hurley + Ashley Paul + Gwenifer Raymond
In tune with everything and out there connecting. Magical musics.
The Wardrobe Theatre
DoppelDänger by She Goat
Baroque-pop theatre gig about dangerous doubling made by real-life doppelgängers
Cafe Kino
Vostok 5 - Robin Foster - Yungylek
Free Improvisation, Free Noise, Free Jazz
The Gallimaufry
Satta Lites w/ D.Ham (Noods)
Beats, bumps & bass
The Stag And Hounds
Deaf Kids, POHL, Zohastre
Extreme metal, psychedelic noise rock & experimental drone
Rough Trade Bristol
Mesadorm
Live at Rough Trade Bristol - FREE ENTRY
Rough Trade Bristol
Group Listening | Free Entry
Live at Rough Trade Bristol
LEFTBANK
The Leftbank Jam Band
Our Open Jam hosted by the LBJBs
Thekla
Thorny: FAKA, MUN SING, MX World + much more
Thorny is a platform for the underrepresented voices of Bristol and beyond
The Island
ALGORAVE
Algorave the future of dance music
Crofters Rights
Loose Lips x Skoop in Bristol - Shxdow + more...
It's gonna be Hell In A Cell!
Arnolfini
ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE, SUSIE IBARRA & YOSHIMIO
YUNOHANA VARIATIONS, with special guest JOHN BENCE
Take Five Cafe
TOAD Reactor 001: Kanji Kinetic & Rrritalin
A night of filthy mutant bass & neuro garage from a legendary local line up.
The Gallimaufry
Satta Lites w/ Anina (Happy Skull)
Beats, bumps & bass
St Michaels Parish Hall
House and Land (Thrill Jockey) + tbc
Ashville NC drone folk duo
LEFTBANK
The Leftbank Jam Band
Our Open Jam hosted by the LBJBs
At The Well
Liquid Library At The Well
Weird Sounds at the launderette
The Cube
The Doom Doc
Bristol Premier of The Doom Doc, followed by a show featuring 5 featured bands
The Lanes
Ecstatic Vision (US) + supports
Trance inducing raw heavy psych from Pennsylvania + Cybernetic Witch Cult + Moon Goose!
LEFTBANK
The Leftbank Jam Band
Our Open Jam hosted by the LBJBs
The Old England Pub
The Jellilalas
Drummer Tony Orrell and keyboardist Vyv Hope-Scott combine live improvised electronics with delicate piano and percussion
The Cube
Witch Please: SHAME
An occult posthuman ritual performance party
The Cube
Trembling Bells
Leading psych-folk band
The Volunteer Tavern
Free Entry! - Cosmic Soul Collective Garden P
Organic Experimental Expression
Fringe Jazz
NICK MALCOLM & OLIE BRICE QUARTET
Featuring the internationally renowned saxophonist PAUL DUNMALL
LEFTBANK
The Leftbank Jam Band
Our Open Jam hosted by the LBJBs
Cosies
PTS w/ Kai Whiston
Big Dada / Gloo Music
Rough Trade Bristol
Snapped Ankles & Guests
Post-everything noise/drone/techno avant-garde mayhem!
LEFTBANK
The Leftbank Jam Band
Our Open Jam hosted by the LBJBs
Take Five Cafe
Illegal Data #3: SPINEE + PARRIS + more
Spinee (PC Music) + Parris (Hemlock) + more
Cafe Kino
Quasar Kino Fest
Quasar Sounds hosts a monster lineup in the Cafe Kino Basement
The Louisiana
Yawning Man // SOAC // Ruby The Hatchet // More
Legendary Californian desert, stoner rockers YAWNING MAN return to Bristol!
Cafe Kino
Rob Noyes, Jon Collin, Winter Ghost
An evening of American primitive, Drone and soundscapes
Exchange
The Atomic Bitchwax // Suns of Thunder // Stubb
Psychedelic Rock, with elements of Prog, Fuzz and Blues.
Crofters Rights
JULIE'S HAIRCUT
Gravy Train: Julie's Haircut (Rocket Recordings) + guests
The Cube
Cinema of the Imagination: The King & the Corpse
Crick Crack Club performance storytelling brings its wild haven of fairytales for grown-ups , myth & epic to the Cube!
Dialogue
Dialogue
We return to Lawrence Hill for another all-night party.
Crofters Rights
Naxatras [GRC] // More TBA
Greece's notorious hard psychedelic rock band, Naxatras finally grace Snuff Lane for a rare Bristol performance!
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.
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.