Cosies
Reggae wine cellar in St.Pauls.
Cosies is a basement bar/micro club with a penchant for reggae and dub. Entry is usually under a fiver and the busy bar goes late. Dub Studio Sessions, Music Box and Bristol Reggae Society all host regular events, whilst the weekly Reggae Sunday events are a Bristol institution.
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Essential by name, essential by nature, these Sessions bring world-class roots back to hallowed ground (Cosies basement). A true staple of 2000s French sound system culture, Salomon Heritage will be lighting up the room with road-tested plates from Robert Dallas, Ashanti Sellah, Kibir La Amlak + more in their signature spiritual revival style.
Essential Sessions - Salomon Heritage on Essential Sounds
Trance heads take note! Realist Alive assembles another super-crew from the fringe-club vanguard with madame3swords’ breakcore industrialism + DJ Dolphin Dive/M Eleven doubling up with eurodance and makina ascension, alongside a serving of blistering digi-rap. Big tip FFO: Kane West, Baby Pantera, Europa.
Realist Alive return to Cosies with co-founders of London's Four of Wands collective and Sucker Punch godfather M Eleven for a night of crooked UK bounce, trance-trap and destructed bass.
Free entry! One of underground rap’s greatest right now, Illinformed presents a live spesh to celebrate his second link up with Gaza Glock – a gritty boom-bap love/hate-letter to the flake. It’s Cosies Games Night too so expect frantic Tekken button bashing and resident beat battles in this feverish UK hip-hop essential FFO: High Focus, Jedi Mind Tricks, Klashnekoff, Roots Manuva.
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Essential delivers another pedigree live rub-a-dub PA in the Cosies blues party basement, with Babylon-burning lyrical chants on the mic from Aloka and Golden Guild’s Guire + local lathe cut specialists Crispy Sounds running things on the decks. Eclectic soundsystem fare for the rootically hearted!
Essential Sessions returns to Cosies next month, an we've been cooking up a serious dose of roots and culture for you
Another proper amen education in the Cosies dungeon with Cardiff’s ambassador of the Rupture sound, Lubi J. Expect darkside dnb rollers and junglist ruffage + the usual old skool / new skool vinyl-only delights from the Education Sessions crew FFO: Tim Reaper, Source Direct, AKO, Metalheadz.
Education Sessions with Lubi J