Cafe Kino
Co-operative cafe with intimate performance space downstairs.
Since its move from Nine Tree Hill onto Stokes Croft, Cafe Kino has continued to build a sterling reputation both as an independent cafe and as an occasional music venue. The intimate events space beneath the cafe has a standing capacity of 65 and has attracted both local musicians and established Bristol promoters Qu Junktions.
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The shape of doomjazz to come! Taking Bohren & Der Club’s glacial jazz-noir and dialling the occult Sabbath fuzz paranoia up to 11, Free Nelson kick up a hell of squall in the Kino basement with a carnival of local support.
The Cellar album launch
Another night of ecstatic absurdity from Bristol improv’s greatest gift! North Carolina’s Sham are a many-headed mutant of rambling freak folk, psychedelic devotionals and 8 track explorations, appearing at Kino in three-piece improv form alongside new abstract cornet/guitar collab Arvy Ethers and Danny Riley’s experimental fingerstyle instrumentals. FFO: @, Animal Collective, Elephant 6, Arthur Russell.
Improvs greatest Hits hosts From North Carolina, the beautiful experimental folk of SHAM with support from Arvy Ethers and Danny Riley
Returning Kino residents Electro Cafe spotlight new sounds from Bristol’s avant-garde electronic underground: Noah Radley channels Basinski/Grouper/Julianna Barwick with deep, transportative ambient and drone, alongside 303-drenched melodic techno from prolific local producer Tudor Acid.
Organic electronic and ambient music
IGH bring their patented formula of never-to-be-heard-again experimental improv jazzbient soup to the Kino basement with stargazing Yamaha duelling from NYC trio Die Artist. Plus expanded Max MSP nerdery from Grain.fm’s Enys Mottet and Digitallillies.
with Die Artist / IGH and Enys Mottet + guests
An absolute gift of a free entry evening with a selection of overlooked queer cinema curated by cross-continental film club GAY24. Featuring electroclash polymath Brontez Purnell’s video mixtapes and Marlon Riggs’s towering 80s essay film on Black gay outsider identity.
GAY24 pairs the films of two directors, Brontez Purnell & Marlon Riggs, that each explore the lives of black gay men through coreofilm.