Our recent recommendations for The Island
Opening the Easter bank holiday in an unruly manner, Flat 7’s next sonic adventure of nail-biting techno and no-nonsense wall-to-wall slammers seeps into The Island’s subterranean abode. Top-tier residents Alexisitry and Dani Whylie bring the energy and beguiling, dark, potent groovers from start to finish…
A proper Bristolian Techno Party
No rest for the wicked as Love Muscle resident Kessie accelerates us all into a wild-style frenzy of industrialised hard-edged techno, cerebral electro groovers, scuzzy post-punk and EBM dread, all sewn together with riffling sub-bass oddities. BIG FFO: Josey Rebelle, Danielle, Vindya, Dasha Rush.
Forward thinking techno. Community for all.
Industrial party-starters extraordinaire Slack Alice unite with balearic bleep barn-burners Bellyache for the second coming of Kelan. The Dark Prince of Bristol neo-noir will be disturbing Prude Britannia with another shapeshifting live reincarnation, alongside DJ October in sludged Funn Bobby nu-beat mode. No-brainer FFO: Wax Trax, Psychic TV, Spiral Tribe, Lydia Lunch, Blackhaine.
Kelan (Live), Funn Bobby, Angelkin, EC Ryder, Winter
A whip-smart, soul-stirring International Women’s Day cabaret! Riot Act showcases a riveting array of female voices shaking up comedy and spoken word, with award-winning TV stand-up and ‘Guilty Feminist’ co-host Jessica Fostekew, trailblazing Poetic Pilgrimage founder Muneera Pilgrim, Bristol’s own “granny rapstar” Deasy Bamford + more.
RIOT ACT- Bristol's searingly new Cabaret Experience- proudly presents the very best in comedy, poetry, music and everything inbetween from the south west and beyond
Thundering raw tunnel techno with a no-phones dancefloor? Raise the NRG bring that Berghain brutalism to the Island with the Bristol return of FOLD’s arch-resident Lockhart. Uncompromising thuds and pumping fists keeping you energized til the 4am turf-out.
Forward-thinking techno for all of the community.