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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alternative rock
art rock
psychedelic rock
prog rock
glam rock
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folk
singer-songwriter
indie rock
indie folk
folk rock
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metal
alternative metal
post-hardcore
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folk
alternative rock
indie rock
art rock
post rock
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contemporary jazz
hardcore-punk
alternative metal
ambient
grime
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experimental
contemporary classical
ambient
drone
rap
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experimental
noise
drone
electronic
minimal techno
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lgbtq+
workshops & classes
talks
film
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folk
punk
goth
anti-folk
theatre
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ambient
jungle
electronic
techno
electro
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alternative rock
punk
post-punk
dub
drone
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folk
alternative rock
punk
folk rock
grunge
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punk
hardcore-punk
emo
post-hardcore
sludge metal
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metal
hardcore-punk
alternative metal
emo
post-hardcore
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experimental
noise
ambient
industrial
drone
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punk
post-punk
metal
hardcore-punk
shoegaze
Get a feel for Cafe Kino
Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
Massive ritualistic noise born from a minimalist double-drum arsenal! Upset The Rhythm favourites Rattle are pressure-cooker post-punk for the experimentally committed; their interlocking percussive play cycles through agitation and release, sparsity and theatre, to total hypnotic surrender. Huge happening FFO: Able Noise, tUnE-yArDs, Still House Plants, Shopping, Minor Conflict.
Three great acts live at Cafe Kino!
Triple threat of digi-hardcore, ethereal avant-guitar and gabber noise to blast you into the new week! Kelpy Cathedral’s chewed-up noise-pop meets GbClifford's glitchy emo-gaze and 3a3h3n3d3i’s screamo catharsis at this essential Monday soiree FFO: Deli Girls, Black Dresses, Machine Girl.
International flinta* showacts celebrating their tour kickoff in the lovely 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.
Heaven-sent presents a night of experimental alt-pop, minimal synth and electronica shaped by the sounds of Reykjavík and Bristol. Influences span across trip-hop, classical, folk and IDM.
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.
Folklore and Romanticism from Somerset
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