Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
Self-described 'postmodern power duo' Big Trousers will crash their car right into your hearts with their droll, well-observed and uncomfortably relatable post-punk. Oh and they've promised to eviscerate Mark Zuckerberg and kill the royal family. Hell yeah. FFO: The Streets, The Chisel, Powerplant.
Big Trousers at Cafe Kino.
Caroline cellist and singer Jasper Llewellyn brings the widescreen feelings of his band’s idealistic universe to Kino’s basement for a solo show of tremulous, weather-beaten vocals drifting over simmering arrangements. Earnest yearning FFO: Perfume Genius, Mount Eerie, early Low.
Welcoming Jasper Llewellyn (of the group Caroline) on his debut solo tour. Support comes from Bristol's Danny Riley and debut performance from London's cot head.
IYKYK! A Peel-lauded 90s phenomenon with countless imitators and Franz Ferdinand/Country Teasers progenitors lurking among their ranks! The Yummy Fur’s angular, absurdist, 2-minute art-punk bruisers earnt them an undying cult following, despite their mysterious low profile and 4-albums-in-4-decades output. Truly a historic one FFO: Wire, The Fall, The Soft Boys, Half Man Half Biscuit.
Glasgow indie legends return to Bristol
Misgendered have finally minted their sludge-down apocalypse of a debut EP! Let's see how many synchronised windmills can occur in Kino while Witherhorde scare ya silly with their Merseyside deathcore fantasies and Byford Dolphin Incident crank out their red-lined mathy powerviolence. Queercore is lyf!
Blowout and Deathstare presents Misgendered, Witherhorde and Byford Dolphin Incident at Cafe Kino, Bristol
Kino is forever! The IGH expanded universe rallies round its erstwhile home, with their patented house blend of shape-shifting experimentalism delivered by four separate improv scene supergroups... catch 'em here cos they’ll only happen once…
4 one off bands raising money for kino