The Jam Jar
Volunteer-led venue and live music haunt.
The Jam Jar isn't just a venue, it's a shining beacon attracting the most authentic artists from planet Earth. With boundary-pushing gigs and sweat-soaked clubnights from more corners of the globe than anywhere else: cumbia to ska, folk to salsa, afro-rap to acid techno. Bristol would be a much greyer place without that!
What's On At The Jam Jar
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post-punk
hardcore-punk
noise
doom metal
post rock
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house
techno
electro
progressive house
minimal tech house
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world
indie pop
indie folk
alternative pop
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soul
folk
rock
singer-songwriter
indie pop
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uk garage
140
afrobeats
amapiano
uk funky
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world
techno
afrobeats
amapiano
uk funky
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lgbtq+
afrobeat
house
drum and bass
reggaeton
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Our recent recommendations for The Jam Jar
The legacy of Tanzania’s Real World Records giant Hukwe Zawose continues in electrifying fashion with Zawose Queens. His daughter and granddaughter meld rapturous dual vocals, lilting thumb piano, clattering ngoma drums and hypnotic chizeze fiddle with gurgling synths and thuds of global bass. It’s a joyous and exuberant discovery FFO: Remmy Ongala, Tarika, Stella Chiweshe, Onipa.
The Zawose Queens at The Jam Jar.
Woi oi! Iconic 'ardkore action incoming from the unrivaled Moving Shadow fold! Reinforced / Altern8 / Shut Up And Dance heads will already have their tickets of course. For everyone else: breakbeat ravestalgia doesn’t come much ruffer than 2 Bad Mice, chopping samples and bombing tha bass like it was the Second Summer of Love all over again.
2 Bad Mice & Friends at The Jam Jar.
Sell out warning! Your annual booster of sonic ritualism and spiritual liberation from psychedelic funk, hip-hop and Afro-punk luminaries BCUC. The Soweto seven-piece returns to Bristol on rapturous waves of adoration with a two date show due to ever-popular demand - don’t sleep on it.
BCUC at The Jam Jar.
The lush melancholy of the classically schooled Blu String Quartet meets the black hole collapse of KAU’s fractured instrumental hip hop hum. You’ll flow from buzz-cluttered headspaces to total serenity so naturally that the seams never show – concentrated high-speed chops FFO: Flying Lotus, Mahler, SHOLTO, Prefuse 73.
KAU & Blu/Quartet + D/RK-HUMR at The Jam Jar.
A new night of genderqueer finery is here! Helmed by tangerine dream Coren, Nonbinarave is carving out a haven of fluidity and expression, joined on the decks by Soft Butch’s LEXX for sweet, soft ‘n sensual dancefloor heaters to let loose (and still be in bed by midnight). Dreamy stuff.
NONBINARAVE at The Jam Jar.