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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electronic
grunge
post-punk
punk
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drone
dub
post-punk
punk
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alternative pop
freak folk
indie rock
punk
singer-songwriter
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indie pop
indie rock
pop punk
post-punk
punk
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alternative pop
art pop
indie pop
singer-songwriter
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death metal
rap metal
sludge metal
metal
hardcore-punk
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funk
jazz
neo soul
singer-songwriter
soul
Get a feel for Cafe Kino
Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
Brutal Beirut queercore, emerging from the city’s urgent Dajjeh collective with lashings of abrasive East Bay Ray surf-punk geetar and border-burning dissent. Bristling with the rage of punks under siege, Ta2reeban’s sub-2-minute attacks on the hostile world are gonna shake Kino's foundations, alongside Docile’s always-insane belligerent crossover crust.
DEATHSTARE x GIGS ON FILM PRESENTS: TA2REEBAN, DOCILE, CIRCUMVENT, SARSOUR
‘The rent won’t kill you, but something else will….’ Celebrating one year of shoe-string slashers and ketchup-splattered video nasties, Heavy Pictures screen the Mount Everest of VHS camp’n’gore. Straight from Betamax to your brainbox, this sleazy tale of a Mulholland Drive boarding house gone BAD is budget bizarro giallo of the highest/lowest order. BYO scart cable.
VHS Special celebrating 1 year of Heavy Pictures Presents
Sell out warning! The Puppetfest hijinks continue with a Kino queer storytelling special! A constellation of multidisciplinary performers and artists crisscross assorted otherworldly puppet forms with dance, drag, and musical interludes – ft Hector Who Lived, Silver Ley and Sarahsson – in this beautifully DIY variety bill.
Cafe Kino invites you to an evening of puppet shows
Triple-headed, guitar-brandishing beast lurkin’ in the Kino basement for an absolute steeeal of a PWYC pricetag. Nile Robinson’s ramshackle Alex-G-meets-Daniel-Johnston freak folk leads this all-killer line-up alongside Leeds’ emo-tinged pop-rock sweeties Family Art Club and Sid Plimmer’s wistful indie whispers. Ones to watch, IRL, with your eyes FFO: Whitney, Lomelda, Runnner, Mk.gee’s secret anti-folk project.
A Below the Belt gig
Curb-stompingly evil crossover thrash rocketing straight outta sleepy Cwmbran with death-splattered, groove-heavy attack. With their perfect shotgun marriage of 80s thrash and 90s hardcore, Exaust might just be one of the West’s meanest (alongside Overpower); worshippers at the altars of Anthrax, Slayer and Inhuman Nature should nae miss this Kino blood-pumper.
Into Obscurity @ Cafe Kino 7/6/26