The Old England Pub

Ben Vince returns to Bristol with his first solo release in five years, diving into club terrain with spiralling sax psychedelia and industrial-weight sub-bass. An esteemed noise-maker on the London improv circuit + arch-collaborator (Joy O, Holy Tongue, Astrid Sonne etc), he’s set to spellbind with his kinetic wormholes of looping, FX and tripped-out jazz mutations. HUGE. BEN VINCE live at The Old England, Bristol.

Imagine an extra-terrestrial raised on a heady diet of Edith Piaf, The Space Lady, Soviet Kitsch-era Regina Spektor and dada cabaret, and you’re halfway to the sublime Mary Ocher. Her cerebral, operatic krautwork wouldn’t feel out of place in a ‘20s Berlin bar yet sits totally out of time (and space). A hymnary beamed from the cosmos, probably FFO: Molly Nilsson, Anna Von Hausswolf, Klaus Nomi, Kate Bush. Mary Ocher plays the Old E in Bristol as part of their UK TOUR! Support from the always intruiging Myer U Clark

Doomcore fuzz? Desert grunge? Whatever you’d call ‘em, Screaming Dolls’ gruff and groovy brand of existential dread has been climbing the local ladder ready for this headline shot at your eardrums, with pitch-perfect support from bass-and-drums punk pulverisers Peacelily too! Goodly guitar grot FFO: Pigs x 7, DFA 1979, Tad, Grandmas House, Human Leather. The Screaming Dolls & Friends, celebrating the release of their new EP

Leeds meets Detroit via Bristol’s blurriest improv hangout. Territorial Gobbing’s Theo Gowans collabs with Alex Izaak Millings to build a disordered vocal collage of drones, groans and kazoo squalls mutating in real time + Edie Roberts delivers sharp futurist poetics alongside the elastic backing of the IGH band. Detroit / Leeds and Bristol is the combo you need

Rising Leeds duo Kiosk rewire the Old E with a dreamlike, bass-laden tangle of darkwave, chiptune and noise – think Working Men’s Club meets the dopamine-spiking sound of 2010s indietronica (do we smell a revival?!) Plant yourself up front early for prime support from HumDrum’s sultry, jam scene-birthed jazz fusion and Limited Ltd’s muscular post-punk. A Warm Welcoming Leeds to Bristol