Cafe Kino

A Stokes Croft triple-hitter of underground fire! Holy Popes channel post-garage punk into animalistic distortion and visceral noise; Vile Imbeciles gurgle experimental high-guitar hell with rhythmic jank; and Repo Man collapse rock into shards of sax, ping-ponging bass lines and plunking riffs. Relentless FFO: The Fall, The Stooges, The Birthday Party. HOLY POPES + VILE IMBECILES + REPO MAN at Cafe Kino.

Towering bliss in a wee room! Italian four-piece Mondaze dive dreamily through sumptuous guitar reveries and gorgeously warped nighttime textures; sweeping shoegaze radiance with a 90s alt-pop sensibility FFO: Slowdive, Nothing, MBV, Smashing Pumpkins. Mondaze at Cafe Kino.

Local alt-country outfit Ead Wood deliver their homespun songs full of wry tenderness and understated twang. With a sharp eye for the melancholy triumphs of everyday life, they channel the bittersweet spirit of heartbreak into irresistible forms FFO: Whitney, Fust, This Is Lorelei, MJ Lenderman. Ead Wood at Cafe Kino.

Enter Kino's storytelling portals! Wessex Hag animates her spectral recordings for Halloween – 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. Immersive storytelling

An intimate film n’ gig special in the Kino basement, feat 00s-channelling DIY pop-punk and emo from London’s Mayzel and South Wales’ Fler + moody experimental horror short Her Name Is Dog from local filmmaker Indie-Rose Dawson. Kicked off by a scene social and zine-making in the caf – get down early! Gathering our guts out of the gutter to platform independent queerpunk artists on Friday 24th October!