The Ill Repute
Quirky rocker's bar with surf/Mexico on the mind!
The Ill Repute's a quirky rocker's bar making a name for itself in Old Market. With a unique music policy of rockabilly / surf / 2tone / garage rock from resident DJs and live bands, the 50s appropriate tiki-style decor's the perfect environment to enjoy some of the best Mexican food in town.
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Sell out warning! Beyond cult classic sexploitation joyriding action hailed by John Waters as the greatest film ever made. Expect go-go dancers, desert drag-racing, rockabilly catfights, shameful innuendos and hella karate chops.
Screenings of cult films downstairs at the Ill Repute
Crazed Japanese pop-art horror/comedy collage like Scooby Doo meets Evil Dead meets hardcore hallucinogens (meets Mary Poppins meets Jodorowsky meets……). Indescribable cult cinema haunted house joyride, totally unlike anything else before, after or way off in the future.
Be Kind Rewind Bristol presents CULTURA Film Festival 2024 at The Ill Repute on Old Market
Sell out warning! £2 screening of the most outrageous film ever made! Come see Divine and John Waters' all-out assault on good taste - a total landmark in 70s cinema and queer culture in general.
Screenings of cult films downstairs at the Ill Repute
Ecstatic improv chaos with three never-to-be-repeated lineups playing never-to-be-heard-again experimental punk-jazzbient soup ft. Bristol underground legends from Stanlaey, Viridian Ensemble, MP3 Chainsaw and more.
one time bands are curated from different from different Bristol scenes and genres to create new non genre music !
Wilma Flinstone meets Stray Cats in an animal print rockin’, double-bass slappin’ psychobilly meltdown at Old Market’s retro-dive bar destination, the Ill Repute. Essential frenzied fix FFO: the Horrorpops, The Cramps, Meteors etc etc.
Stoneageabilly with CAVEGIRL & THE NEANDERGALS