The Bristol Fringe
Bar in Clifton with regular live music.
The Bristol Fringe is a small bar and live music venue in Clifton. Live music can be found regularly in the front bar while the Bristol Fringe's back room is host to intimate gigs a couple of times a month. The front room / bar is always free while entry to gigs in the back room ranges from £3 to £6. Live music usually starts around 9pm and The Bristol Fringe is open until midnight except on Fridays and Saturdays when the venue remains open until 1am.
The music policy at the Bristol Fringe is diverse with previous bands including Vamos, Andy Sheppard, Muff Said and Jake Mclurchie.
The music policy at the Bristol Fringe is diverse with previous bands including Vamos, Andy Sheppard, Muff Said and Jake Mclurchie.
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A rarely-sighted blackened noise cloud gathers over Clifton, swelling with Art School SS’ screwed BM interludes, Crying Cable’s celestial drone, feedback wooshes from the Lovers Remorse windtunnel + Eggy Tapes’ arch harsh bandicoot DJ G. 100% worth a trip uptown FFO: Ramleh, Black Leather Jesus, Yellow Swans.
A night of dark ambient, electronics and noise noise noise! The Anvil and Ozone co-promoting this sublime mix of high-yet-low brow music at the Clifton Fringe
One of the scene's stand-out innovators returns with a brand new quartet. We’ve been floored by Rachel Musson's stunning avant-sax soundscapes, toying with bird song, piccolo and church bells, so colour us curious about this fresh setup, exploring group interplay between cello, bass clarinet and violin.
Rising star Rachel Musson's new quartet at The Fringe
Visceral, knotty free jazz trio taking whistle-stop tours through modal Coltrane blasts, John Zorn cinematic downtown skronk and even a nod to the blue-eyed grunge angel Kurt Cobain. Exemplary jazz chops with a punk attitude and Discus Music seal of approval, this is indeed a rare one FFO: Led Bib, Sons of Kemet, Lounge Lizards, The Thing.
Inspired by a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting The Exu produce layered, intense, creative & beautiful, thought provoking, genre fluid improvised music. Absolutely brilliant.
Sumptuous local chamber jazz from Get the Blessing’s trumpet maestro Pete Judge, melding perfectly with the delicate folk cello of James Gow. Four years young now, this duo feels like an infinite well of pastoral bliss FFO: ECM, Arthur Russell, Memotone, Arve Henriksen.
Duo between celebrated trumpeter Pete Judge and James Gow on cello & tenor guitar
Western Gothic / fringe roots supergroup of the macabre, LA’s Heathen Apostles effortlessly alchemize the honky tonk, bluegrass and dark folk chops of their Cramps, Kings of Nuthin + Legendary Shack Shakers pedigree. Haunting, hard-edged outlaw country that’ll ride you past the sunset into the underworld FFO: 16 Horsepower, Graveyard Train, Those Poor Bastards.
With Halloween drawing near what better band to see than Heathen Apostles? A band that have created a style of music that at once conjurs both angels and demons, and will enlighten a darkened soul. Enter the back room of The Bristol Fringe and be entertained like you've never been before!