Our recent recommendations for The Old England Pub
Hallelujah, Community Jam Collective’s massively stacked all-dayers are back in action, packing 8+ hours of live music and DJs across both floors of the lil old Old E. Hard to pick favourites among this lot but definitely do not miss: rough-and-tumble folk yarns from Dozmary, blissfully thunderous alt-rock five-piece Treemask and feel-good roots + dub spinner Hakim.
CJC'S MONTHLY DAY EVENT AT THE OLD E CELEBRATING THE MUSIC IN BRISTOL
An intense collaboration between veterans of the Swiss noise underground Tober and Rémy Sax. 80s synth sludge, dark jazz and breakcore distortion boil over in a heady experimental electropop stew – think Liars meets Venetian Snares meets Animal Collective and then some.
IMMERSIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL EVENING FROM SWISS GROUP - WOHUNG DER LOVE & SUPPORT FROM REDH3RRING
Old E beatdown!!!! Akuma cross the pond from Cardiff to wallop you with firebrand metalcore, alongside MTM > Bloodstock rising nu-nu-metalers Fight The Champ and fresh Plymouth crossover faces Exterminatus. Underground pit-mongering free-for-all FFO: Knocked Loose, Malevolence, DRAIN, Biohazard.
A hardcore/metalcore showcase!
A delicious left-turn from those crazy IGH kids as they launch a new label for their rotating improv scene collabs and freewheeling live cuts! Grab their first release then dive into: postmodern percussion poetry from wayward bardist Sean Noonan (‘the punk-jazz Alan Lomax’), Horsefair’s potent post-rock convulsions and IGH’s ever-mutating house band packing a special bumper line-up.
Celebration of first release + future regular !
Static spills across The Old E as local art punk outfit Year of the Rabbit deliver knotty, slow-burn noise scrapes, raising money for female-led neurodivergence-celebrating zine Neon Daisy. If you caught ‘em tearing the roof off Sportsmans at Simple Things, you’ll know they’re not one to miss. Bruised euphoria FFO: DITZ, Sonic Youth, Gilla Band, Dream Wife.
A night of alt bands from all around the UK coming together to raise money for a great cause at the Old E on the 4th December