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
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drum and bass
dubstep
experimental
techno
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workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
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workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
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workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
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funk
world
gqom
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workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
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minimal tech house
electro
house
uk garage
tech house
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workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
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minimal techno
experimental
140
techno
noise
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workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
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dub
electronic
experimental
footwork
lgbtq+
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workshops & classes
theatre
sport & exercise
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electronic
experimental
techno
noise
Get a feel for The Island
Our recent recommendations for The Island
Sybil opens an Island wormhole to the deepest realms of techno, trance, breakbeat, ambient and deep froggy proggy. in a truly mind-bending club catharsis from one of the best in the game. A total no brainer if you dig: Konduku, Kia, Vlada, DJ Nobu.
Wormhole: Sybil, Plantera & Stefan Brown at The Island.
PWYC entry! Yessss, it’s time for our monthly dose of Grama: Bristol heads serving up the best tunes in a proper community-style club night. October’s edition brings fka boursin’s deeper-than-deep house excursions, Rizla’s ominous techno and RS Tangent’s completely wonky tekno-dub-punk discombobulations. Long live Grama!
Grama09 - rs tangent, fka boursin, rizla at The Island.
Longtime bringers of unadulterated queer joy, PLU enter a brave new era at the Island, decking it out to the nines for a proper wormhole session with the arch CPI / Discos Capablanca brain-frazzler. Dredging the depths of fried acid, darkwave disco and primal techno balearica, Hugo's a seasoned club psychonaut flying high with the likes of Vlad, Talabot, Tolouse Low Trax and Ron Morelli.
PLU Dance w/ Capablanca at The Island.
RTN have been carving out their own sublime corner of Bristol’s nocturnal landscape. This time around they’ve got Decoder bringing the deep technoid hypnosis, Jin Synths on the molten electronic futurism and WVRM POOL laying down some seriously heavy techno propulsion. All the way til 6am baby ... strap in!
RTN w/ Decoder + Jin Synth at The Island.
Sleek club futurism with two spinners packing serious sub pressure and off-kilter rhythms! Ehua brings her percussive bass workouts alongside LWS’s ice-cold UK techno rollers, twisting dance machinery into stranger shapes for devotees of Timedance, Fever AM, TraTraTrax and Pressure Dome.
Forma: Ehua, LWS, Dom Carlo, severine at The Island.