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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

Dandelion at Cafe Kino
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lgbtq+ singer-songwriter indie pop indie folk alternative pop
ROMXN / PRIOR / PUDDLE BRAIN / CAVEPAINTING at Cafe Kino
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experimental noise industrial
Sunliner at Cafe Kino
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rock punk emo pop punk skate punk
Incaseyouleave, Mountain Peaks & Gilded Cage at Cafe Kino
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punk hardcore-punk emo post-hardcore sludge metal
Scooby-Doo  PG 7.30pm at Cafe Kino
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lgbtq+ film
Tarot Collage Workshop + Music at Cafe Kino
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folk singer-songwriter lgbtq+ workshops & classes
Daufødt w/ Peacelily, TvWife, Get Fucked at Cafe Kino
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punk metal hardcore-punk grunge noise rock
Apathy, So Far So Good & Rozemary at Cafe Kino
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metal hardcore-punk alternative metal emo post-hardcore
Teorstan & Anya Pailthorpe Spring Tour at Cafe Kino
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folk singer-songwriter indie folk
EWY TOUR 2026 at Cafe Kino
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lgbtq+ alternative rock punk emo anti-folk
Duvel Mortgage + Tapsew + Patsy Delve at Cafe Kino
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experimental jazz experimental pop electronic poetry
JOSEPH DECOSIMO at Cafe Kino
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folk experimental world traditional folk
Algae Bloom 10 Year Anniversary Show at Cafe Kino
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punk post-punk metal hardcore-punk shoegaze
Prodigal, Fanchon, Indecision, AVA at Cafe Kino
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alternative rock rock metal alternative metal grunge
Chasing Dolls + Guests at Cafe Kino
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alternative rock indie rock emo lgbtq+
Somewhere at Cafe Kino
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psych noise ambient drone electronic
Memphis Gerald / Nuala / The Fieldcaps at Cafe Kino
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folk singer-songwriter traditional folk indie folk
LISA / MONIKA BADLY x DAN JOHNSON / SUPER JENNY x CP / HEBEJEEBIES at Cafe Kino
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experimental new wave lo-fi electronic
SHOCK HORROR + Alto Alto & Beware The Bears at Cafe Kino
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rock post-punk art rock experimental rock progressive rock
EXAUST + IMMORTAL REIGN + SYPHON at Cafe Kino
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metal hardcore-punk thrash metal
Experimental Puppet Festival at Cafe Kino at Cafe Kino
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experimental lgbtq+ theatre festival
TA2REEBAN + MORE at Cafe Kino
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lgbtq+ punk hardcore-punk
Myles Bullen + Rain McMey at Cafe Kino
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emo rap anti-folk
Pet Shop Boys: It Couldn't Happen Here  15 7.30pm at Cafe Kino
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lgbtq+ synthpop film
1000 Rabbits at Cafe Kino
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indie rock indie pop alternative pop art rock art pop
Benefit for Gaza at Cafe Kino
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punk post-punk dub drone
NATHY SG , JAY CAVALIER & THE BAND and POCKET at Cafe Kino
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indie rock punk post-punk indie pop pop punk
Teddy Bear Making Workshop at Cafe Kino
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lgbtq+ workshops & classes life drawing
Sisters + Blondine + Parkii at Cafe Kino
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folk alternative pop grunge emo shoegaze

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Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino

Call in sick! Enduring local tendershredders Toodles and the Hectic Pity release a long-awaited new EP into the wild! Their hard-hitting emo/folk/punk anthems are joined in Kino basement revelry by New Jerseyan power-indie singer-songwriter Long Neck and noodling Oxford emo rockers Spank Hair – all the feels for lovers of: The Mountain Goats, Joyce Manor, Tigers Jaw, AJJ, Crywank. Toodles & The Hectic Pity, Spank Hair & Long Neck at Cafe Kino.

An immaculately curated night of beauty and savagery! Screamo ascendants incaseyouleave oscilate between delicate melodicism and hair-raising violence, with transcendent support from Mountain Peaks’ tortured spoken-word death rattles and Gilded Cage’s menacing emo-doom eruptions. Mandatory pain purging FFO: La Dispute, Kumnears, I Hate Myself, Touche Amore. Incaseyouleave, Mountain Peaks & Gilded Cage at Cafe Kino.

Fffffeeeeedback, deep resonance and live improvisation from four obscure sonic alchemists. Seth Cooke and Tina Hitchens present deep listening works of live electronics, weaving together delicate flute tapestries, field recordings and environmental sound. Joining the trip: Will Frampton and Pablo Jimenez-Moreno’s architectural drone dreamscapes. Tip! Seth Cooke+Tina Hitchens//Will Frampton+Pablo JimenezMoreno//Louie Newlands at Cafe Kino.

Harsh noise hump day, the Eggy way. Lo what fresh combinations of analogue destruction – Romxn’s spoken word industrial disintegration, Puddle Brain’s dark ambient feedback tunnels, Prior’s haunting death industrial and paint-stripping power drone. Savage, yet approachable sonics FFO: Ramleh, Puce Mary, the hum at the back of the fridge, Hospital Productions etc etc. ROMXN / PRIOR / PUDDLE BRAIN / CAVEPAINTING at Cafe Kino.

Up-n-coming bedroom pop to soundtrack your sadboi spring! Dandelion’s stripped-back, heart-on-sleeve confessionals sound like a hushed collab between Christian Lee Hutson, The Sundays and Snail Mail – slow-burn storytelling gorgeousness guaranteed. Dandelion at Cafe Kino.