What's on NYE

From huge clubnights and Alfresco Disco NYE to pub back rooms this is the essential new year's events list.

Around mid November every year the same question is on everyone's lips - what's on in Bristol on New Years Eve? This page aims to answer that question and provide complete listings for New Years Eve events in Bristol.

In Bristol there's a whole wealth of exciting nights out on New Years that frankly aren't available the rest of the year, with this in mind plan your night carefully and remember that tickets for popular events sell out fast. Unique options for what's on Bristol new years eve are all listed below. Bristol's biggest venues like to really up the anti with venues like Lakota and Motion turning out some of Bristol's most spectacular club nights to date. Bristol's best bands also work their balls off, missioning around the city playing multiple new years eve gigs. Unlikely buildings and pubs become one-off venues - booking bands, selling tickets (typically around £10) and welcoming ridiculously late licenses. Refreshingly it's these pubs that can provide some of the best live music and intimate atmospheres to be found in Bristol on NYE 2026. This is the most complete run down of whats on in Bristol on the 31st December 2026 this side of the Bristol suspension bridge.

Our Editor's New Year Picks

Our editor's top live music recommendation

Idle Hands boss Chris Farrell, one of Bristol’s most quietly assured selectors, has his house and garage hat on for this lightly leftfield Grapevine edition. He’s been around this city for yonks and knows exactly how to work a dancefloor - if you’ve caught him at Houghton, En Masse or Love International, you already know what’s up. Grapevine head down to The Jam Jar alongside Chris Farrell

Free entry! The riffolution will not be televised, it’s gonna be live on the Moor stage! Stick your head in the speaker for: Empire of Dust’s grindingly slow sludge misery, Gluehorse’s morose agricultural noise rock, Damek’s nihilistic doom desecration + Cemetery Dog’s anthemic desert stoner antics. The best scuzz around FFO: Dopethrone, Celtic Frost, Thou, Melvins, Electric Wizard, Jesus Lizard. Doom laden stoner noise classic

Sell out warning! Another double strike into the lionhearts of all dub disciples! Manchester’s foundational Freedom Masses square off their rig in a deadly meeting with West London’s mighty Ital Power crew ft. Benji Roots ‘pon the mic. Let this be your first (not your last) 2026 lesson in time-honoured rootical steppas, piercing sirens and shaking bass-weight. 2 Sounds, 1 Arena

An immersive odyssey through the foggy dreamscapes of Neil Ó Lochlainn & Cuar: dense ancestral Irish chamber-jazz stuffed with stretched Sean-nós melodies, bowed scrapes, and microtonal folds. Support comes from experimental harpist Rhodri Davies, distinguished local trumpeter Pete Judge and Scottish Gaelic vocalist Ewen MacIntyre. Essential FFO: Slow Airs, The Gloaming, Lúnasa, Nightnoise. A new year’s evening of traditional & improvised chamber music

Feral local deathcore merchants Entropic Rot throw slam-inducing hammer-ons and pig squeals to The Croft pit, alongside fresh yet putrid sludge doom favs Życie. This shit’s heavier than the grave FFO: The Acacia Strain, Ingested, Malevolence, Dopethrone, Old Man Gloom. With Blunt Impact, Zycie, World//Error and Kintona

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

Bristol's intimate NYE parties

I'm always blown away by the scale of the lineups curated by Bristol's promoters over new years. Laurels are not rested upon and all the stops are pulled out. Motion's consistently immense new year's day line-ups are, without douby, some of the best this city has ever seen. But for many people, the ideal NYE in Bristol is a small party with a handful of their closest friends. Bristol promoters are well aware that small can also be beautiful, so we've listed 5 of the smallest NYE parties in Bristol below:

Tickets For New Year's Bands & Parties

New Year's Eve Blowout in Bristol

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More New Years Eve Photos

All advance tickets sold out for this new years eve party.

Hogmanay new year's celebration in Bristol.

From previous hogmanay celebrations

New years eve party at The Attic in Bristol.

New years eve crowd at The Attic in Bristol.

“Its the end of a great year of awesome music from the Bristol music scene, so why not continue new traditions into the new year with yet another Community Jam NYE event at the home of our weekly jam night and monthly day events, The Old E!”
From: COMMUNITY JAM - NYE @ THE OLD E

“Club Blanco returns to The Red Church to usher in the new year with underground heroyghtr43 Grace Sands — founding force behind the legendary DiY Sound System. Joining her: local house maestro and pbar favourite Gallegos, plus Club Blanco's own Chez de Milo.”
From: Club Blanco New Year's Eve

“ALL THIS PLUS for live music this year we welcome "Tender Groove Collective", a group of DJs that are sure to get you on your feet and seeing the new year in right on the dance floor. They'll be playing an eclectic mix of funk, disco, global groove and soul to delight your ears and your feet. Oh, and there'll be a free karaoke machine to use as and when you want... Get your tickets NOW!”
From: BOTTOMLESS NEW YEAR'S EVE DISCO Feat. "Tender Groove Collective"

New Years Eve in Bristol