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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'Ever drive a hearse, Harold?' Life affirming, faintly horrifying, and initially brutally panned 70s black comedy Harold & Maude screens at The Ill Repute as blessed angels of the cozzie livs Be Kind Rewind continue to churn out a sickening line-up of free entry cult classics.
Harold and Maude at The Ill Repute.
Free entry! Intergalactic drag divas versus the Planet Clitoris!!! Sensational DIY cult classic Vegas in Space feels like John Waters and the B52s trying to make a Barbarella sequel with five dollars, a borrowed video camera and a skipful of surplus cardboard. So trashy it’s honestly transcendent.
Biweekly screenings of cult films and cinematic oddities at The Ill Repute
Free entry! Bogie launches the first of Ill Repute’s fortnightly basement noir screenings with incomparable style. A surly Chandler-penned private investigator, universal female desire for said investigator, bodies piling up in mean low-lit Hollywood streets, ever-present Marlboro smoke ... The Big Sleep didn’t break the mold, it is the mold!
Something of the Night presents classic film noir classics downstairs at The Ill Repute
French Americana outsider Ryder the Eagle channels his itinerant hauntings into splintered synth-pop, cross-hatched with the ghostly aftertaste of country and western. An iconoclast street performer brimming with gothic wit and pathos, he projects sinister swagger and lovesick cynicism FFO: Jonathan Richman, Suicide, The Magnetic Fields.
Don’t miss your chance to catch this cult hero of the European DIY scene in Bristol’s most beloved Elvis-filled, mezcal-slinging dive bar.
Free entry! An unmissably batshit fantasia of emo musical theatre and high camp gore from Bristol Queer Cinema Club: Repo! The Genetic Opera explodes across a plague-ravaged 2056, where biotech lackeys serenade you while repossessing your collateralized organs. Baffling casting choices include Paris Hilton and Anthony Stewart Head in leather daddy mode, as if we weren’t already convinced…
Be Kind Rewind Bristol + Bristol Queer Cinema CluFb present MONSTERS, MANIACS & MISITS; a series of cult halloween film screenings throughout October 2025.