Rough Trade Bristol
Bristol branch of the iconic record store with decent sized gig space and excellent music
Rough Trade's punk credentials stretch way back to 1976 and Geoff Travis' watershed Rough Trade Records (home to Stiff Little Fingers, Cabaret Voltaire and the C86 compilations that defined that UK indie sound). The first branch open in West London, but Bristol is its fifth and newest store. The 2018 opening came at a great time - whatever you think about the store - the addition of a solid 150 - 200 venue in town with some discerning heads behind the programming was welcome news for all.
Free and ticketed events happen most nights of the week - mix of big names like Idles and Throbbing Gristle's Chris Carter plus local acts like Bad Tracking and Elder Island.
Free and ticketed events happen most nights of the week - mix of big names like Idles and Throbbing Gristle's Chris Carter plus local acts like Bad Tracking and Elder Island.
What's On At Rough Trade Bristol
— Rough Trade Bristol
pop
rock
alternative rock
punk
pop punk
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big band
experimental pop
indie rock
experimental
jazz
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synthpop
alternative rock
noise rock
art rock
experimental
— Rough Trade Bristol
noise rock
shoegaze
experimental
noise
Get a feel for Rough Trade Bristol
Our recent recommendations for Rough Trade Bristol
Dystopian queer electro-(s)punk like Fever Ray and Peaches having a knife-fight with Soft Cell in a strobing underpass. Throbbing industrial electronics meets psychosensual lyrics dripping with sleaze and sardonics FFO: Gazelle Twin, Vessel, Debby Friday, Miss Kittin, Fever 103.
Three epic bands and a drag host!
Deadly MBV x Fontaines DC x Scalping cocktail of macabre vocals, wall-of-noise-guitars and industrial dancetronica; Bristol’s rapturous post-rock shoegazers come of age with their debut EP, crashing into the world via the Rough Trade stage. Essential I-saw-them-before-they-were-massive bragging rights FFO: Interpol, New Order, Primary Colours-era Horrors, A Place To Bury Strangers.
Damefrisør + guests at Rough trade
The mighty Punka returns with a triple bill of raucous queer punk energy. Headed up by Martyrials’ psychedelic electro-punk with goth-rockers Witch Hook and riotous noise-punx Split Dogs.
3 Bristol queer punk bands and a drag host!!