The Bristol Fringe

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.

What's On At The Bristol Fringe

Back Door Comedy at The Bristol Fringe
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open mic comedy stand-up comedy
Fake Scenario at The Bristol Fringe
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contemporary jazz new wave
Martin Mexme Trio at The Bristol Fringe
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funk soul blues contemporary jazz jazz funk
Chloe et Al at The Bristol Fringe
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soul contemporary jazz jazz funk neo soul
Fresh Tease at The Bristol Fringe
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lgbtq+ drag comedy theatre cabaret
Ivor S.K at The Bristol Fringe
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soul blues reggae new orleans blues
Magick Innit: Great Lammas Bake Off at The Bristol Fringe
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lgbtq+ workshops & classes talks poetry
The Jazz Defenders - 10th Birthday Bash at The Bristol Fringe
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jazz soul contemporary jazz jazz funk
The Jazz Defenders - 10th Birthday Bash at The Bristol Fringe
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jazz soul contemporary jazz hip hop jazz funk
Jim Reynolds at The Bristol Fringe
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folk blues traditional folk blues-rock delta blues
88 Straight at The Bristol Fringe
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jazz rock blues swing pub rock
Furlined at The Bristol Fringe
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alternative rock country folk rock
The Dylegans at The Bristol Fringe
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folk traditional folk country folk rock country rock
Joff Lowson Trio at The Bristol Fringe
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folk folk rock country rock
Kai Carters Old Time Trio at The Bristol Fringe
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traditional folk country folk rock gypsy jazz country rock
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jazz R&B soul alternative hip hop
Joe & The Temperance Two at The Bristol Fringe
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folk country folk rock
Cole & Ward at The Bristol Fringe
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folk new orleans jazz country folk rock indie folk
The Kahunas 'All Systems Go' Tour at The Bristol Fringe
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folk indie pop folk rock indie folk folk-pop

Get a feel for The Bristol Fringe

Our recent recommendations for The Bristol Fringe

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Fabio Ferri is the Bristolian-Italian Frank Zappa! His mind-boggling prog alchemy is forged with a mathematician’s precision and a mad scientist’s unhinged brilliance. Jazz-fusion meeting avant-garde classical to take you to new musical frontiers FFO: Allan Holdsworth, Nik Bärtsch, Jaga Jazzist, late Soft Machine. Fabio Ferri (full band) + Benkins (DJ set)

A unique experimental exhumation of the outlandish jazz manouche of Jacques Montagne. This fresh quartet - ft. Adrian Utley (Portishead), Alex Bishop (on Django’s beloved steel-string Maccaferri guitar), Riaan Vosloo (double bass) and Ross Hughes (clarinets) - will astound with a sound somewhere between Tchavolo Schmitt, Roland Kirk and Link Wray. Jazz Manouche - Electric Django Reinhardt - Experimental Improv

Free entry! Celestial cinema from multidisciplinary artist collective Snowapple: ‘A Moonless Night’ is a surrealist cabaret that follows the moon’s fall to earth, merging animation, poetry and dance in a dreamlike, shapeshifting odyssey. A short film from music collective, Snowapple

Superlative hard-bop ft. Ronnie Scott’s veteran in-house drummer Spike Wells totally reinvigorated in a trio spanning three generations. And hey, they can really wail - sailing through a repertoire of Monk, Ellington, Lee Morgan and Stone-Lonergan’s fresh compositions. Spellbinding stuff from Bristol’s House of Jazz (aka the Fringe). Riley Stone-Lonergan, Spike Wells, Eddie Myer

Rare deep listening treat for Blue Note heads in celebration of one of jazz’s great tenors, Joe Henderson. A high quality playback session of his fourth hard bop firecracker In’n’Out leads into a thrilling live re-interpretation of the disc by the Fringe in the Round Allstars. Get those feet tapping! Bristol's only circular jazz and improvisation night!