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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traditional folk
folk
experimental
spoken word
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ambient
downtempo
electronic
electro
drone
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Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
IGH bring their patented formula of never-to-be-heard-again experimental improv jazzbient soup to the Kino basement with stargazing Yamaha duelling from NYC trio Die Artist. Plus expanded Max MSP nerdery from Grain.fm’s Enys Mottet and Digitallillies.
with Die Artist / IGH and Enys Mottet + guests
An absolute gift of a free entry evening with a selection of overlooked queer cinema curated by cross-continental film club GAY24. Featuring electroclash polymath Brontez Purnell’s video mixtapes and Marlon Riggs’s towering 80s essay film on Black gay outsider identity.
GAY24 pairs the films of two directors, Brontez Purnell & Marlon Riggs, that each explore the lives of black gay men through coreofilm.
Music crams our modern lives, but how much are we really listening? I mean…realllllllly. Drawing on Pauline Oliveros’ meditative, consciousness expanding practices of Deep Listening, this workshop from Dan Johnson (EP/64) could change your life……
Deep Listening: Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Mediations
Kino basement pastoral! Rosie Brownhill evokes wide open fields and eldritch forests with her piano, penny whistle and fingerpicked paeons. With the dulcet joys of local Lost Maps dream-folker Molly Linen, this is essential escapism FFO: Virginia Astley, Vashti Bunyan, Devon Sproule, Nick Drake.
Folk & Improv style music, 3 acts
Ramshackle alt-country meets freak folk in Nile Robinson & The Countrymen. Imagine if Jeff Tweedy, Bob Dylan and Daniel Johnston started a wonky lo-fi side project- we’re here for it. Big FFO: Kurt Vile, Alex G, The Tallest Man On Earth, Diane Cluck, Michael Hurley.
Nile Robinson & The Countrymen + Dharma Burns DOUBLE-HEADLINE Cafe Kino for an original folk-country-honky-tonk Revival