Cafe Kino

Bristol indie folk afficionados may be miffed their best kept secret is out, but we ain't! With more tracks than ever trickling onto the net, Eva May's voice is soaring towards the clouds with 70s-haunted ballads that simply cannot be ignored FFO: Joni Mitchell, Ora Cogan, Judee Sill, Eliana Glass. Join one of Bristol’s finest singer songwriters, as she plays new songs, old songs and more!

Drone freax assemble for this evening of mind-altering frequencies and dissonant sounds, low enough to bellow through the lithosphere! Brace yourself for Gnarled Fingers' wall of fuzz; She The Throne's ultra-heavy industrial distortions; Sol Hum's entrancing modular synth paganism; and Angelangelangel's uncanny choral euphoria. An evening of mystical drone and ethereal noise

Cinema Transexual screens Bergman at his most transgressive: a stripped back two-hander pushing the possibilities of abstract editing and the collision of human faces. Perona’s famously deranged prologue remains one of cinema’s greatest sequences: projector arcs, dead bodies, mute clowns, crucifixions and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it erect penis. INGMAR BERGMAN'S 1966 MASTERPIECE SHOWN AS ORIGINALLY INTENDED : FOR THE PLEASURE OF AVANT GARDE TRANSEXUALS

Kino is forever! And to celebrate their well-earned immortality they’re serving lucky Stokes denizens a weekly PWYC platter of Bristol’s finest underground talent all throughout Aug. First one’s a humdinger, with Paper Crowns’ carnivalesque avant-punk freakouts and HumDrum’s jam scene-birthed jazz fusion balladry… chef’s kiss! Week 1 of Kino's Month-long Megafest, celebrating 22 years of Cafe Kino

Where would the DIY touring circuit be without Kino? The basement beckons again, where Sisters serve an eerie, soul-stirring gumbo of riot grrrl/emo/bubblegrunge + 90s-y alt goodness via the modern Liverpudlian-American melting pot. You’ll weep! You’ll rock! You’ll pay under a tenner in the year of our lord 2026! A steal FFO: Soccer Mommy, Velocity Girl, Indigo de Souza, Soot Sprite. A night of 90s inspired grunge, emo, Midwest, folk.