The Island
Former police station turned creative playground
The Island is a vibrant multi-use venue in the heart of Bristol city centre. Once occupied by Bridewell Police Station, it’s been in the hands of community arts charity Artspace Lifespace since 2008.
Home to over 100 resident artists, The Island boasts a diverse mix of spaces and facilities including dance and circus training studios, a sewing room and an art gallery, while doubling up as a thriving events venue – covering live music, workshops and classes, immersive performance art, and more.
After dark the Edwardian cells come alive with experimental club nights, recent highlights including Timedance’s forward-thinking techno and bass nights, jungle, soul and Afrobeats from Nightspace, and late-night sessions from leftfield festival En Masse.
The 300-capacity venue is at basement level and is not wheelchair accessible. Free tickets are available for personal assistants. See https://artspace.uk/venue/the-island/ for details of the different event spaces within the building.
Home to over 100 resident artists, The Island boasts a diverse mix of spaces and facilities including dance and circus training studios, a sewing room and an art gallery, while doubling up as a thriving events venue – covering live music, workshops and classes, immersive performance art, and more.
After dark the Edwardian cells come alive with experimental club nights, recent highlights including Timedance’s forward-thinking techno and bass nights, jungle, soul and Afrobeats from Nightspace, and late-night sessions from leftfield festival En Masse.
The 300-capacity venue is at basement level and is not wheelchair accessible. Free tickets are available for personal assistants. See https://artspace.uk/venue/the-island/ for details of the different event spaces within the building.
What's On At The Island
— The Island
house
electro
acid house
progressive house
minimal tech house
— The Island
house
jungle
techno
deep house
downtempo
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Our recent recommendations for The Island
Forma returns with another hit of twisted club tomfoolery, this time linking up with dance expremos Rut. Syz serves sculpted sound system precision and slick UK techno hybrids, perfectly tuned for the ‘floor alongside Small Crab’s percussion-driven bassweight pressure. Essential outting for future bass bods hardwired to Yushh, Batu, re:ni, Rhyw, etc.
Rut and forma join forces for a lethal meeting point of textural experimentation and soundsystem intent.
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A 2 hour introductory training session touching on all the wonderful elements of professional wrestling!
Unruly dystopian clatter and warped club mutations from Bristol’s DIY ATC noise extremists. DJ Die Soon summons distorted phantasmagoria and apocalyptic oscillations; Logic Lost locks into abrasive industrial techno pressure and collapsing rhythms. A HEAVY one indeed FFO: Senyawa, Sunn O))), Dis Fig, 5 Gate Temple.
Avon Terror Corps bring a nightmare of distorted club music to the cells at the Island, with DJ DIE SOON making his first Bristol appearance in over a decade
PWYC entry! Bristol DIY heads Grama pull together another winning assemblage of underground heroes. Lock in for Moli’s dreamy ambient techno and weightless dubwise explorations, Dan Thorman & Winkles’ deeper-than-deep vinyl obscurities, and Mackenzie dialling up the dungeon club pressure.
Local legends spinning all night long - grassroots community club night.
Seriously weighty stuff from Rome’s hypnotic techno mover DJ Red, stepping into The Probe’s next immersion chamber from the ashes of her much-missed residency at Goa Club (RIP). She’s locking heads seamlessly with Negative Affect’s haunting, introspective late-night tekkers, flipping The Island into an infinite Tresor-esque wormhole of tessellating 4/4 dankness.
Cool and deadly headwork, DJ Red will apply her technical prowess with an otherworldly ability to send it down the wormhole like no other!
Joining her we invite the unique style of LA native Negative Affect!