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.
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Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
Top-shelf first-wave anarcho legends in the flesh! The crust’s crust will tell you Virus were the absolute bollocks; still running on fresh vitriol, they’ve saved their most vital polemics for the cursed 21st century. Disciples of The Mob, Flux and even Subdued should unpick some room on their patch jacket, and stick around for the Hermeticus projection archive + after-hours lessons from DJ Dub Punk.
Virus, Hermeticus, DJ Dub Punk, DJ Inigo at Cafe Kino.
Another edition of IGH x Kino’s experimental odysseys, studded with stars of the UK avant-garde. Birmingham academic and free improv/no wave powerhouse Si Paton brings cerebral bass permutations alongside Paling’s mysterious post-rock meltdowns, ex-Shipping Forecast space-noise from The Czochralski Process, and ofc, the ever shape-shifting house band.
Si Patton / paling / The Czochralski Process + IGH Band at Cafe Kino.
Sell out warning! UK trans underground unite! Kino hosts a massive benefit gig for Bristol Transfemme Collective loaded with queer punk and noise acts from across the south, inc muscular grungegaze from Brighton trio Leibniz, beautifully blackened hardcore from London’s Dead Name, and local crust bruisers Docile.
TRANSANGER at Cafe Kino.
Rooted in the myths and memories of the English revival tradition, Betty Blight’s years in Argentinian post-punk and cumbia scenes also add a global flavour to her curious, wintry freak-folk ballads. She’s a bona fide original, in masterly company with fellow Bristol folk scene talents Jon Hunt, Dan Weltman and Georgina King.
Betty Blight album launch with Dan Weltman, Jon Hunt and Georgina King at Cafe Kino.
A triple threat of gothic ferocity! Black Dahlia conjure bubbling, obsidian mascara-pop full of windswept vocals. Kelan pounds martial rhythms beneath sardonic, lupine growls + Shoun Shoun whip up a hardcore frenzy with their live wire intensity and slash-and-burn guitar work. Delirious nocturnal glamour FFO: Nine Inch Nails, Savages, Lykke Li, Chromatics.
Black Dahlia + Kelan + Shoun Shoun at Cafe Kino.