Cafe Kino

Drone freax assemble for this evening of mind-altering frequencies and dissonant sounds, low enough to bellow through the lithosphere! Brace yourself for Gnarled Fingers' wall of fuzz; She The Throne's ultra-heavy industrial distortions; Sol Hum's entrancing modular synth paganism; and Angelangelangel's uncanny choral euphoria. Ritual Resonance at Cafe Kino.

Kino is forever! And to celebrate their well-earned immortality they’re serving lucky Stokes denizens a weekly PWYC platter of Bristol’s finest underground talent all throughout Aug. First one’s a humdinger, with Paper Crowns’ carnivalesque avant-punk freakouts and HumDrum’s jam scene-birthed jazz fusion balladry… chef’s kiss! Week 1 of Kino's Month-long Megafest, celebrating 22 years of Cafe Kino

Where would the DIY touring circuit be without Kino? The basement beckons again, where Sisters serve an eerie, soul-stirring gumbo of riot grrrl/emo/bubblegrunge + 90s-y alt goodness via the modern Liverpudlian-American melting pot. You’ll weep! You’ll rock! You’ll pay under a tenner in the year of our lord 2026! A steal FFO: Soccer Mommy, Velocity Girl, Indigo de Souza, Soot Sprite. A night of 90s inspired grunge, emo, Midwest, folk.

Irrepressible retro garage-jangle anchored by wry Glaswegian drawl: no doubt about it, Neutrals are Television Personalities’ spiritual successor in Californian/Scots hybrid form. Add in ambrosial C86-style three-piece Silk Cuts and Ravetank’s distortion-doused experimental power-pop… now close yr eyes and you could almost be back in the Indietracks pews! FFO: The Pastels, The Go-Betweens, Elephant Six. San Francisco jangle pop on Slumberland / Static Shock plus supports

Pitch-black 00s sleeper hit with national treasure Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, We Need To Talk About Kevin) in the director seat, and Samantha Morton hogging the lens. Making the most of her boyfriend’s suicide – in the most twisted sense – Morvern is an unforgettable and ambiguous figure, brooding on wounds too deep to speak of. God bless Cinema Transexuàl for this gift of dreamy, dissociative UK cinema! Movies by the divas for the divas