Our recent recommendations for The Island
Where better for Bristol fringe theatre-makers Toxic Shock to debut new queer crime drama Strapped than in an Edwardian basement lined with police cells? A unique murder mystery/vigilante story that sees drag queens taking the law into their own hands (finally!) FFO subversive c*nt-serving revenge fantasies.
A gay man has been murdered while leaving his boyfriend’s flat, and now the local drag queens are ready for war.
Like a shining beacon for the heads and weirdos, SHFTD collides with Music To Come in a 9 hour melding of shifting live electronics and tunnel trip-techno ft. Sandwell District LEGEND Rrose. Head down early for Copper Sounds’ industrial concrète ceramic installations and astral bass-consciousness from Birthmark.
MTC & SHFTD team up to host some of Bristol's finest live acts & DJs + headliners Rrose & Rat Section
Is this the first Timedance since Helena Hauff rocked Trinity to the foundations? All hail this illustrious return with Ilian Tape uber-selectress Re:ni and Timedance’s Jabes in a wicked n sweaty annihilation of 140 / broken techno / percussive club norms.
Timedance returns to The Island for the first time since 2018
Public Affair’s impeccable taste in sub-heavy antics continues with Dublin’s Woozy heroine EMA, packing deadly 140 hybrids in a b2b madness with Surusinghe’s gritty hard-drum futurism. One for the genre-agnostics who wanna get weird to dembow, IDM, trance, baile and amapiano in a big dancefloor blender.
Not one to miss - A b2b set from two trailblazing DJs alongside some solid support
A no-prisoners showdown of flawless clubwise stimulation from the yung Murmur crew's 2nd clubnight! LCY (fka L U C Y)’s mutant bass bangers meets Lee Gamble’s ballistic trap / broken grime / industrial delights in the depths of the Island’s prison cells.
We kick off 2024 with a huge line up at The Island