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What's On in Bristol This Weekend
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Daytime festivals, intimate gigs and rumbling basslines all feature in Headfirst Bristol's weekend listings.
Trending live music in Bristol this weekend
There are more than 59 gigs happening in Bristol this weekend and we've managed to collect them all onto this one page. The event listings below include all the local bands and musicians playing on both Friday and Saturday evenings. If you are planning on going to any of the larger gigs and concerts this weekend we strongly recommend buy tickets in advance from our ticket shop.
WAKIZASHI FESTIVAL
at The Jam Jar Collective
Wakizashi Festival (a brainchild of PROBO Titans & Harry Furniss) brings together a fantastic line up of 20 acts over the weekend, with highlights including Get the Blessing & Knifeworld.
Tickets/more info - £9 + 50p.
The Old Market Assembly , Saturday, £5
Charismatic & uninhibited - Glaswegian folk trio, The Langan Band are here to enchant the weekend with support from Americana multi-instrumentalist Stompin' Dave.
Fire in the Mountain started as a group of friends sharing their passion for bluegrass music. Many a night sat around the campfire has organically developed into a blossoming live music festival and a handful of spinoff events like this beauty.
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Noods Radio w/ Tasker, Malcolm X Crypt
Venue Change // Now at Basement 45
The mastermind behind Young Turks' techno label Whities - Tasker is the man that brought us Kowton's Glock & Roll & Avalon Emerson's The Frontier. There's a reason NTS Radio and Boiler Room keep getting this dj back. Last tickets:
Eminent. w/DJ Sprinkles & Bruce b2b Sam Hall - Secret City Centre Bristol Venue, Sat 13th Jan
Eminent are keeping you on your toes this weekend. Keep your ears open, to be sure to see Comatonse Recordings owner DJ Sprinkles offer up his signature blend of chromatic deep house.
Support from Hessle Audio’s Bruce, Idle Hands’ Sam Hall, resident Hywel Gregory and Horizon Recordings’ Ulex.
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This Weekend's Trending Clubnights
We started Headfirst in 2008 and since then we have seen Bristol's weekend nightlife programme week upon week. Currently Bristol's clubnights are some of the most diverse and innovative in the UK, ranging from small venues like Cosies and The Island to larger clubs like Motion and Blue Mountain. The best of this weekend's club events are below.
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Friday
Gigs & Live Music
Salt Café
Goddessfest!
Three ethereal, highly inventive and eclectic female artists,
The Chelsea Inn
Kiss Me Killer + more
Free entry punk show!
The Old Market Assembly
Summer Nights: Smiley and the Underclass
Smiley sings the revolution blues with a rhythm guaranteed to get you movin’.
Kingsdown Wine Vaults
Shootin' The Crow
Old Timey meets Country Rock meets Rock n Roll - Strawshed music
Mr Wolfs
The Infinite Collective + Dr Days Juncti
Funk/Soul/Hip Hop night!
The Fleece
Oas-is plus Special Guests
Oas-is plus Special Guests
No.1 Harbourside
Nazim Ziryab
If there’s a whiff of desert campfire about singer/guitarist Nazim Ziryab’s music it’s down to his Algerian Berber roots
The Canteen
King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band
Oil those hips, shine them shoes and get yourself ready for an Afro-Latin psychedelic workout, complete with an aroma technician.
SWX Bristol
The Real Thing Live
The Real Thing 'Live in Concert'
The Lanes
Rick & Morty's House Party
Rick and Morty fans unite!
The Bristol Fringe
Lee Mcrory and Steve Payne
Lee Mcrory and Steve Payne
The Bristol Fringe
Lee Mcrory and Steve Payne
Lee Mcrory and Steve Payne
El Rincon Bristol
Bomba Nova
acoustic Tropicalia & Samba duo
swx
The Legendary Real Thing ' Live in Concert ' 3 Ori
The The Legendary Real Thing are appearing Live in Concert with 3 of The Original Members performing all their hits
SWX Bristol
Soultrain Summer Sizzler
Soultrain Radio Summer Sizzler Event
Clubnights
Crofters Rights
BASILICA presents LAMONT & co.
Saturday Night electronic Dance
Cosies
Breakin' Bread
Party time with Stapleton and Rice bringing the vintage vinyl from funk to blues to ska to soul...
The Gallimaufry
Children of the Sun w/ Jess Farley
Dusty hip hop, mellow jazz, world rhythms, electronic soul & lo-fi house
Saturday
Gigs & Live Music
St James Wine Vaults
Wash with Black Wendy - Loralie - Foster and Found
Alternative Rock all for you
Exchange
Specialist Subject Record Shop Opening Party
Woahnows , austeros (solo) and more tbc
Mr Wolfs
Big Love & The Fuzz + Mad King Ludwig / Asian Hawk
Funk rock/reggae/psychedelic band + a gypsy wedding in outer space!
Kingsdown Wine Vaults
Chuck Hawthorne & Libby Koch (Austin TX)
Classic Country from it's natural habitat
The Canteen
The Duckworths + Waxmouse (DJ set)
Strange and surreal songs
The Old England Pub
Outblinker (GLA) w/ DJ sets from Nick, A
Outblinker are a motorik, psych, soundtrack-esque band from Glasgow. Ffo John Carpenter and Neu
Boca Bar
Task Force, Smellington Piff & DJ Cro
Task Force at Bocabar Glastonbury
O2 Academy
Breakin Science
BREAKIN SCIENCE - Bristol Bank Holiday Special
The Old Market Assembly
Summer Nights: James Morton
Bristol based saxophonist James Morton plays vocal-toned, riff-driven soul and funk.
Oxford Totterdown
Shop Front Heroes +Conor Hughes Band
Two top bands on the same bill.. Shop Front Heroes - Plus The Conor Hughes Band
No.1 Harbourside
Kirris Riviere Blues Band
A big man with an even bigger voice
The Lanes
DEPARTMENT S CLUB NIGHT with WHITE PARKER
Legendary Bristol club night with JTM...
Smoke & Mirrors 8 Denmark Street Bristol
The House Magicians Comedy & Magic Show
Comedy & Magic Show
The Canteen
The Duckworths
There's always a smile in there, albeit a Gothic one.
Clubnights
The Black Swan
Lost The Plot Day Party: XTRAH / DJ HYBRID
Drum and Bass / Jungle / Neurofunk
To The Moon
Mutual Vibes
Bristol's new LGBT friendly uplifting/funky house night
Motion
YARD: Open Air Club
Jeff Mills, Seth Troxler, Eats Everything, Joy Orbison, Daniel Avery, Midland, Axel Boman & more
Cosies
Dancehall Business
ROOTS/RUBADUB/DIGI/DANCEHALL
The Gallimaufry
Satta Lites w/ Neek
Beats, bumps & bass
The Plough Inn
Easton Standard Time
Stapleton and Rice, vintage funk, soul, reggae, vinyl, dancing...
Other Events
Dolwion Mill, Wales
Breaking the Frame Get-Together 26th-28th August
A short break to meet/talk/organise around technology politics
Sunday
Gigs & Live Music
Thekla
Hardly a Party w/ Beach Fossils, Ultimate Painting
25 bands incl. Happyness, Pixx, Girl Ray, The Spook School +
No.1 Harbourside
Flamenco Night with Flamenco Loco & Noem
Every 4th Sunday of the month, come to No.1 Harbourside for a taste of flamenco music and dance.
The Gallimaufry
The Bristol Sessions
Hosted by Ruth Royall
Mr Wolfs
Aug Bank Holiday: The Huckleback
Electric Blues
The Canteen
Hotsteppas
Whether it’s bubbling basement or dignified dub-paced roots reggae music Hotsteppas know how to get it right
The Tobacco Factory
Shanghai Shuffle
Swinging jazz and blues from Prohibition era 20s.
Clubnights
Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre
Soul Shake Roof Terrace Party
Taking the Shake to Terrace
Blue Mountain
Twisted Fusion x Banjax - Huge Secret Guest, Apoll
All Day and All Night Event
To The Moon
Liquid Lunar Sessions
The 2nd sesssion was so great, everything we wanted from Liquid Lunar, the next one is bank holiday so all the more reason to get involved!
Colston Hall
WLTP Terrace Party. Sadar Bahar (Soul
We Like to Party ft. Chicago's Sadar Bahar
Other Events
Oldbury Court Estate
Tom's Family Fun Day & Dog Show
Join us for an amazing day of fun for all the family - including dogs!