Cafe Kino
Co-operative cafe with intimate performance space downstairs.
Cafe Kino is a collectively run vegan cafe and radical grassroots arts hub in Stokes Croft. Fiercely progressive and unapologetically queer-led, its 75-standing capacity basement hosts everything from DIY punk, hardcore and alt-folk gigs to arts workshops and avant-garde film screenings, all rooted in independence and collective care.
What's On At Cafe Kino
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folk
ambient
drone
poetry
spoken word
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experimental
experimental pop
trip hop
icelandic pop
electronic
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experimental
ambient
experimental pop
trip hop
abstract hip hop
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experimental
psych
traditional folk
workshops & classes
lgbtq+
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experimental
noise
art rock
contemporary classical
freak folk
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alternative pop
art rock
experimental pop
art pop
lgbtq+
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alternative rock
art rock
psychedelic rock
prog rock
glam rock
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folk
indie rock
singer-songwriter
indie folk
folk rock
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metal
alternative metal
post-hardcore
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alternative rock
folk
indie rock
art rock
post rock
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experimental
noise
drone
electronic
minimal techno
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ambient
techno
jungle
electronic
electro
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punk
hardcore-punk
emo
post-hardcore
sludge metal
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punk
metal
post-punk
hardcore-punk
shoegaze
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Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
Irresistible new voice rising from the Reykjavik underground! Sunna Margrét keeps the spirit of Icelandic experimentalism alive; her effortless avant-pop is awash with post-industrial whispers and glitchy trip-hop textures, engineered to delight fans of: Jenny Hval, Múm, Bjork, Fever Ray, FKA Twigs, Astrid Sonne, a.s.o.
Sunna Margrét + Silver Ley + Lily Montague at Cafe Kino.
Enter Kino's storytelling portals! Wessex Hag animates her spectral recordings – spinning uncanny West Country fables with live vocal incantations and ambient drones born of bogs, hedgerows, and wind-whipped fields – while Yorkshire’s Blabbermouth excavates the whispers of landscape and lore, stitching archaeology into myth.
Wessex Hag + Blabbermouth: Dark West Country Storytelling at Cafe Kino.
Top-shelf first-wave anarcho legends in the flesh! The crust’s crust will tell you Virus were the absolute bollocks; still running on fresh vitriol, they’ve saved their most vital polemics for the cursed 21st century. Disciples of The Mob, Flux and even Subdued should unpick some room on their patch jacket, and stick around for the Hermeticus projection archive + after-hours lessons from DJ Dub Punk.
Anarcho Punk Meets Dub Meets Jungle/Trance/Techno
Local winners of Green Man Rising and masters of Celtic balladry and velvety Americana. The Eve Appleton Band’s combo of lush layered harmonies and intricate proggy arrangements has been impossible to ignore – simply the best thing in town FFO: The Weather Station, Laura Marling, The Staves, First Aid Kit.
EAB (Eve Appleton Band) bring their patented blend of super danceable folk rock, Americana, and grit to Cafe Kino. With supports to be announced.
Another edition of IGH x Kino’s experimental odysseys, studded with stars of the UK avant-garde. Birmingham academic and free improv/no wave powerhouse Si Paton brings cerebral bass permutations alongside Paling’s mysterious post-rock meltdowns, ex-Shipping Forecast space-noise from The Czochralski Process, and ofc, the ever shape-shifting house band.
More new gen Bristol improv + special guest