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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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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experimental
post-punk
art rock
psychedelic rock
prog rock
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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
Sell out warning! They can easily pack out Trinity these days, but Wych Elm wanna witch you up close and personal with this small-cap basement taste of their sublimely sinister slacker rock. Come support your local folk horror grungers, with bruised art punks Rabbit Vision + Slunk’s plaintive post-punk. Future icons incoming FFO: Mannequin Pussy, NewDad, Sonic Youth, Snail Mail, Hotline TNT.
Wych elm + Rabbit Vision + Slunk + caitlin lamb at Cafe Kino.
Low-key sonic operators gather for an evening of wandering soundscapes. Thomas Lobbam celebrates his new album of delicate guitar-driven minimalism and hazy shoegaze, perfectly complemented by Underscore’s AV sound collages and Light 9’s ambient trap nostalgia.
Thomas Lobban + Underscore + light9 at Cafe Kino.
Free entry! Hometown slowcore heroes Swelt finally birth a big slab of wax into the world! Celebrate the coming of age of their rapturous violin-led lethargy alongside Riley/Radley’s desert-frazzled primitive guitar twang and Esther Pollock’s ominous subterranean mini-symphonies. Three underground treasures FFO: Quade, Low, Dirty Three, Bill Orcutt, caroline.
SWELT + RILEY/RADLEY + ESTHER POLLOCK at 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