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!
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
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punk
blues
traditional folk
rock-and-roll
garage rock
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folk
hardcore-punk
post-hardcore
shoegaze
emo
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jungle
electronic
breakbeat
happy hardcore
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alternative rock
metal
indie folk
alternative metal
anti-folk
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Our recent recommendations for The Croft
6 hours of Brain Fog psych rock beamed from the unbeatable ET x Velvet Echoes third eye. Manchester’s Wax Head bring the scorched vocal gonzo garage fury, Bristol’s own Spin Class showcase their arid psych-prog and Hutch jangle their way through the sunshine dimension. When these two promoters get their heads together, it’s always a no-brainer FFO: Ty Segall, Osees, King Gizzard etc.
Psych Rock All Dayer!
Langkamer drummer/vocalist Joshua Jarman’s solo project Classic Trucks doubles down on the humbly exceptional Breakfast-ness we’ve come to expect from Bristol’s best slacker-indie label. After-hours wisdom delivered with the most casual of airs, all set against a backdrop of sly DIY Americana-pop genius FFO: This Is Lorelei, Friendship, Wild Pink, The Magnetic Fields.
Are you ready to rock??
Double booster shot of jazz-aged boom bap from Loyle Carner collaborator Manik MC and Roots 73 / Silhouettes Project mastermind Asher Kosher. Pure UK rap gold dust here in a High Focus fashion, with unbeatable bars and smooth urban stylings inside FFO: Jehst, The Mouse Outfit, Black Josh, DJ Premier.
Expect a night of sharp and conscious lyricism alongside jazz-soaked beats as these standout figures of the London jazz-rap scene hit the stage together
Sell out warning! Windmill-tastic old skool metalcore as it should be: emotionally fraught and utterly punishing. A Mourning Star kick down the door then set it alight with Crowquill’s skramzy mathcore chaos and can’t-see-em-enough local emoviolence miscreants Cainhurst. Blowout blowouts are the best blowouts FFO: Undying, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Your Spirit Dies, Converge.
Blowout Presents A Mourning Star, Crowquill, Cainhurst and xCruciblex at The Croft, Bristol
Floor-to-ceiling retro indie charm! First-wave Creation Records darlings The Loft infamously split on the Hammersmith Palais stage during their first national tour in 1984, reuniting thirty years later to finally release their debut album – a modern classic of shimmering jangle-pop-rock. They’re the definitive comeback kids FFO: Hefner, The Wave Pictures, The Vaselines, The Reds Pinks and Purples.
After a sell out tour last year,promoting their first ever album, Creation legends, The Loft, return to Bristol to promote their sophomnore release with support from local, indie, superstars, The Lovely Basement.