The Croft

The Croft

The legendary home of outsider bands and Bristol's dubstep heyday!


A Stokes Croft icon (formerly The Croft, then Crofters Rights) returns thanks to Music Venue Properties' 'Save Our Venues' Campaign + the team behind The Mothers Ruin, The Colosseum, The Crown and the live programming brains behind Exchange.

The lovingly revamped Croft will hold 140 sweaty gig-goers with a focus on live music - as well as carefully curated clubnights.

The doors will burst wide open on 12 September after a successful fundraising campaign. You can expect 14 beers on tap from local suppliers, 7 days a week. We can't bloody wait!

What's On At The Croft

Trashed at The Croft
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punk pop punk skate punk
Last Hounds at The Croft
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punk hip hop
Shoun Shoun at The Croft
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psych post-punk psychedelic rock art rock art pop
Bohemian Betyars at The Croft
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folk punk indie folk anti-folk
Templates Christmas Party at The Croft
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house drum and bass uk garage
Two-Piece at The Croft
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metal hardcore-punk
Jungle of Eden at The Croft
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jungle 140 breakbeat happy hardcore footwork
Truth Hertz v Transparent Audio - THE CROFT, BRISTOL at The Croft
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jungle drum and bass breakbeat jump up
ABSOLVA at The Croft
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Mishikui at The Croft
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alternative rock punk metal shoegaze
S-Line: Rowana, Jonny Hotwheelz, Jai, JacobW + Liam Ross at The Croft
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uk garage 140 breakbeat speed garage
Sugar Horse at The Croft
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metal alternative metal doom metal sludge metal
Paradisco Returns To The Croft at The Croft
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funk disco disco house house acid house
Dub Club Xmas Parties - Beatles Dub Club & 60s Dub Club at The Croft
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dub reggae ska house drum and bass
Dub Club Xmas Parties - 70s Dub Club & 80s Dub Club at The Croft
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dub reggae ska house drum and bass
Dub Club Xmas Parties - 90s Dub Club & 00s Dub Club at The Croft
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dub reggae ska house drum and bass
Step Correct 003 w/ Wilfy D, Safiye, DJ Stolen, Kotei ++ at The Croft
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disco uk garage tech house speed garage uk funky
Bad Btch Dubz NYE at The Croft at The Croft
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house jungle uk garage techno breakbeat
Container at The Croft
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industrial noise electronic industrial techno
Entropic Rot at The Croft
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metal hardcore-punk alternative metal doom metal
One Year Of NYX Recordings at The Croft
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jungle drum and bass uk garage 140 dubstep
VULTURE GOD with CONVEY & MANDRAGORA at The Croft
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metal alternative metal death metal progressive metal sludge metal
Who Killed Bunny? + Solar Season + Palemoon + Layla Luv at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock ambient shoegaze experimental rock
Calcine at The Croft
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metal hardcore-punk alternative metal thrash metal
Your Demise 2004 at The Croft
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metal hardcore-punk
Dylan LeBlanc at The Croft
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folk country indie folk
Black Market Karma + Waterpistol at The Croft
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psych rock shoegaze psychedelic rock experimental rock
TV Cult at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock
Nobody's dad at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock grunge shoegaze
Witch Hook at The Croft
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punk grunge emo goth
Grove at The Croft
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punk jungle electronic 140 dancehall
Mustbejohn at The Croft
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indie rock rap electronic
Bottlemoth at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock punk pop punk emo
Rocket at The Croft
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Sunflowers + Green Milk From The Planet Orange at The Croft
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psychedelic rock experimental rock garage rock prog rock hard rock
Pixel Grip at The Croft
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alternative pop
Telpathy at The Croft
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alternative metal post rock
Beauty School at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock pop punk emo
Drug Church at The Croft
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punk hardcore-punk post-hardcore
Outlander at The Croft
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post rock
Ricardo Camembert presents Pavor Nocturnus ,Jake Healy and TG Edwards at The Croft
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experimental industrial noise drone electronic
PLANTOID at The Croft
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jazz psych psychedelic rock prog rock progressive rock
JOOLS at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock post-punk garage rock
Chase The Wild at The Croft
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indie rock shoegaze
Mould at The Croft
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post-punk post-hardcore
CONGRATULATIONS at The Croft
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indie rock post-punk art rock
Ni at The Croft
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experimental psych experimental rock prog rock
Monsterwatch at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock
Ebbb at The Croft
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pop alternative pop art pop electronic
Gumdrop at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock psych post-punk
Son Little at The Croft
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soul indie rock blues
MEMORIALS at The Croft
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indie rock psych psychedelic rock experimental pop
Poly-Math at The Croft
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psych art rock experimental rock classic rock prog rock
Arkayla at The Croft
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Lesbian Bed Death at The Croft
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punk goth hard rock

Get a feel for The Croft

Our recent recommendations for The Croft

Sell out warning! It’s gonna get slippery and sweaty up in The Croft as queer bass rabble-rouser and pastel de nata connoisseur Grove brings power and NRG for this intimate headline show. Sensual mutant dykehall, radical resistance anthems and industrial-jazz-punk moshing awaits. Grove at The Croft.

Sell out warning! Just play the hits! Neglected self-sabotaging art-punk anti-heroes return to their ‘77 roots with an unbeatable repertoire of vitriolic Peel-approved classics. This might be your last chance to see them behave, with spirited renditions of How Much Longer?, Action Time Vision, and none of that jazz stuff! Essential historical fix FFO: Wire, X-Ray Spex, The Adverts, The Fall. Alternative TV. 1977-81 'Punk Bonanza' Set at The Croft.

Louisiana singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dylan LeBlanc rides into town with casually sublime Americana, tumbling with gorgeous melodies and arrangements that sigh with Southern Gothic romance. Essential yearning FFO: Kurt Vile, Kevin Morby, Damien Jurado, Hiss Golden Messenger. Dylan LeBlanc at The Croft.

UK emo revival standouts Mishikui hit the Croft with raw, reverb-drenched atmospherics – think MBV-style wall-of-sound moodiness meeting the muscular angst of Title Fight. This is full tilt catharsis FFO: Superheaven, Movements, Slow Crush, Nothing. Mishikui at The Croft.

Sell out warning! Dirty South Beatdown dragged screaming from the Florida swamps! Two-Piece lash plenty of homegrown death metal brutalism to their hxc slam in a sound engineered for Croft-sized pits. A violent awakening FFO: Sunami, Outta Pocket, Chain Gang, Madball. Two-Piece at The Croft.