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.
What's On At Cafe Kino
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folk
indie rock
singer-songwriter
anti-folk
freak folk
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jazz
experimental
art rock
spoken word
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indie rock
psych
punk
post-punk
new wave
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metal
hardcore-punk
alternative metal
death metal
thrash metal
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Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
Art punk? Post-folk? Baroque prog? What ARE Foot Foot? And what wizard conjured them from the cosmic realms? Mull on these questions and more as they enchant the Kino basement alongside Celtic balladry and velvety Americana from Eve Appleton Band + Enabling Behaviour’s haunted primordial post-punk.
KINO LIVES (Night 3) - Week-long Celebration of Community, Radical Spaces & Queer Joy
Sell out warning! ‘A savage blast of underground anarchy with scenes filmed secretly inside Disneyland’!? Kino’s new basement grindhouse series kicks off in style with a rare screening of Blonde Death, channelling early John Waters into a one-of-a-kind queer video nasty / psychopathic road movie.
June 5th, 7.30PM | Run Time: 1h 38m | 18+
Sell out warning! Unhinged Australian hardcore punk band Shove are a torrent of feedback, noise and galloping muscle. Lead vocalist Bella spews unintelligible panic attack style takedowns of patriarchy and psychopolitical torture. Come thrash away the week’s injustices in a cacophony of buzzsaw and squeal FFO: G.L.O.S.S., Bikini Kill, Slant, indictments of ignorance.
Hardcore punk in the Kino basement!
Improv’s Greatest Hits returns with a night of sonic mutations and scene collisions. Edinburgh’s Cowboy Builder weld cranky no-wave drawls to serrated noise jams, while local trailblazer Micheal Gianan spins his rare kind of post-jazz guitar racket and Frannie & Zooey sieve nu-country and drone into longform folk-tech rituals. Essential FFO: The Fall, Gastr Del Sol, Bill Orcutt, Prurient, On The Corner era Miles Davis.
new local titan Myk Gianan + Nu Country Frannie + Zooey + Improvs Softer Kicks
SSP returns from their near death experience to shake Kino with sonic oblivion through the Chewing Glass Subs. Inside: Severin Black’s isolationist drone landscapes and Nic Krog’s spoken word hardware confessionals. Delectable outsider clobber FFO: Pan Sonic, Biosphere, Nick Klein, Pavel Milyakov, Dale Cornish.
...are you healed yet?