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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psych
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soul
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doom metal
experimental rock
post rock
psych
hardcore-punk
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electronic
folk
jazz
psychedelic rock
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roots reggae
ska
underground hip hop
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progressive metal
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folk
folk rock
folk-pop
indie folk
indie pop
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afrobeat
jazz
latin jazz
salsa
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Our recent recommendations for The Jam Jar
Sell out warning! You’ve never heard pipes like this! Queer futurism from visionary bagpiper Malin Lewis, playing self-made instruments and the world’s first wooden Lindsay Chanter. Malin channels their pipes and drones to form a layered, shifting sonic language that lives between binaries.
Malin Lewis at The Jam Jar.
Sell out warning! Crazed cumbia meets mutant surf, acid champeta and retro-future radiophonic SFX via Bogotá’s most notorious supergroup (ft. Meridian Brothers mastermind Eblis Alvarez). Astonishingly strange new instrumental worlds FFO: Romperayo, Dengue Dengue Dengue!, Ondatrópica, Frente Cumbiero, Fumaça Preta.
Los Pirañas at The Jam Jar.
Sell out warning! A HUGE treat here! Neo-soul earworms for fans of Erika de Casier-esque daydreamer bedroom lulls or Cleo Sol’s gorgeous R&B twirls: East London’s Bel Cobain is surely one of the most exciting names bubbling up through the neo-soul / jazz continuum. You won’t catch her in this kinda intimate setting again, cos those big festival stages are calling!
Bel Cobain at The Jam Jar.
Sell out warning! A matinee plunge into pure bliss: dunk yourself headfirst (see what we did there) into Leeds post-rock savants Din Of Celestial Birds’ sheets of dynamic fuzz, wicked sloshes of snare, and aqueous electronics. Slow-motion beauty FFO: We Lost the Sea, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, Tides From Nebula.
Din of Celestial Birds w/ Wildernesses & The Earth and Me at The Jam Jar.
Our appetites well and truly whetted from years of her impeccable support slots, it’s a dream to see Elanor Moss take top billing with a debut album in tow! Spectral, fingerpicked melodies and crystalline vocals cloaked in pastoral melancholy – this is standout contemporary indie folk with the weight of the greats. Catch her before she ascends IYL: Adrienne Lenker, Jessica Pratt, Joan Baez, Vashti Bunyan.
Elanor Moss at The Jam Jar.