Our recent recommendations for Strange Brew
Sell out warning! Deadly double billing of gothic croon and club-ready darkwave pulse from two of the best nocturnal operators around. She Past Away’s anthemic gloom and mesmeric Turkish poetry meets Actors new wave synth bounce and irresistible male/female vocal attack in this unbeatable post-modern post-punk romance FFO: Sisters of Mercy, Molchat Doma, Clan of Xymox, Drab Majesty.
SHE PAST AWAY + ACTORS at Strange Brew.
Sell out warning! Breakfest for breakfast! Breakfest for lunch! Breakfest for dinner! The loveable slacker rock slingers are ready for another round and by gum, our tastebuds are already tingling, with heavy-duty post-punk supergroup The None, carnivalesque Cornish psych-folkers Blind Yeo, and soft rock master balladeer Polhawan among the early sign ups for this year’s all-day hootenanny.
Breakfest 2026 at Strange Brew.
Sell out warning! Immaculately conceived in utter depravity, Spectral Wound are truly the heinous seed of old school black metal gods... Raw as Scandi frost on bare skin, punk as pre-Viking Bathory, when that shrieking wall of sound hits, nothing on heaven or earth can touch it! A rare offering from future royalty in our sludge-obsessed and doom-driven city FFO: Lamp of Murmuur, Dissection, Immortal, Mgła, Watain.
Spectral Wound & Noctule at Strange Brew.
Sell out warning! Seismic Bristol return for these incendiary garage-punk / prog-jazz / heavy psych disciples. From LA they came, riding heady clouds of sax squall into stoner fuzz pedal storms, screaming with proto-punk falsettos and afro-funk chops. This’ll be a serious third eye watering FFO: Osees, Ty Segall, King Gizzard, Bitches Brew, Witch, King Crimson.
FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS at Strange Brew.
Cult live afro-house dance sensations Afriquoi charmed the world with their fusion of Gambian kora, Congolese guitar, Mandinka percussion and infectious electronics. 100% essential and uplifting experience for all human souls into Francis Bebey, Ata Kak / Awesome Tapes From Africa, UK Funky, The Busy Twist, Onipa, K.O.G.
Afriquoi + Chiedza at Strange Brew.