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What's On in Bristol Tonight
— all today's events.
As part of Bristol's most comprehensive events guide, this page lists all gigs and live music happening in Bristol this evening.
Live Music and Gigs Tonight
One of the best things aboute Bristol's live music scene is that every day is different. Use the event listings on this page (see left hand column) to plan your day in Bristol. Headfirst includes the entire spectrum of bands playing in Bristol today - from local folk and jazz gigs to large concerts at venues like Colston Hall and Start The Bus get ready for a musical journey.
Most of today's gigs start around 8pm so be sure to catch an early dinner to avoid missing the music. Many of the gigs to the left are free to attend, some request a donation in the bucket and others will require advanced tickets. To guarantee entry, we suggest always buying tickets in advance from our ticket shop.
Most of today's gigs start around 8pm so be sure to catch an early dinner to avoid missing the music. Many of the gigs to the left are free to attend, some request a donation in the bucket and others will require advanced tickets. To guarantee entry, we suggest always buying tickets in advance from our ticket shop.
Tonight's Clubnights & Nightlife
Like every other day of the week, there are clubnights in Bristol happening this evening. Bars with regular late licenses and regular djs include The Small Horse Inn and The Love Inn - both extremely busy on weekends. Thursday, Friday and Saturday see the bulk of Bristol's club events when huge venues like Motion and Lakota open their doors to punters. To make this page, we've collected all of the clubnights happening tonight this can be found beneath today's gig listings in the left hand column.
Like a delightfully broken Ben Webster, Alabaster dePlume's fragile, breathy saxophone playing is as immediately captivating as it is extraordinary. Expect delicate solo work, warm ensemble and spoken word in turmoil from the Mancunian's bitter tongue.
Hot off recent collabs with cosmonaut jazz trio The Comet is Coming, DePlume joins Peluché for an evening of unconventional jazz/folk/classical music at The Jam Jar Bristol courtesy of it's peachy.
? Tickets: hdfst.uk/E51897
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Glasgow's Still House Plants are part of the same hyper-fertile scene as Golden Teacher, Domestic Exile & Optimo Music etc. The young trio "take cues from lo-fi R&B, off-kilter post-punk and free jazz" to create something decidedly new. They headline affairs at Cafe Kino this evening.
Cacophonous Sarcophagus host the proceedings with stellar support from fresh London duo O YAMA O and Bristol's most erratic improv troupé EP/64.
Tickets:
Driven by the notion that raves should be places of dark and dizzying eccentricity, upsammy favours trippy, oddball soundscapes over floor-ready dance cuts. Though upsammy's sets shift slowly from psychedelic, washed-out ambience to slamming electro cuts and fierce drum and bass, she crafts her signature sound through a commitment to the unheimlich.
Behind the controls at De School, this Amsterdammer has taken the time and space to develop into one of today’s most defiant and intriguing selectors. And if that wasn't enough...Housework still have the highest calibre residents in the BS-postcode (take a bow Shanti Celeste, Gramrcy, Daisy Moon and Golesworthy).
? Tickets: hdfst.uk/E48905
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A close affiliate of the tight-knit Rush Hour crew, HUNEE is unquestionably one of today’s most sought after selectors. Eyes closed in transcendental bliss alongside the likes of Antal, Marcel Vogel and Floating Points, his increasingly inimitable knack for connecting the deepest of cosmic disco, boogie, tropicalia and house gems has been bringing glee to crowds worldwide.
Armed with little more than his trusty rotary, a packed bag and a charismatic grin to boot, no genre, form or tempo is out of bounds as Dropout Disco bring Hunee comes hunchin’ into Bristol on July 20th to celebrate Dimensions Festival’s UK-wide launch series.
Tickets: hdfst.uk/E46216
Today's Trending Bristol Events
TRENDING_EVENTS_HEREFor all 39 events today — See the left hand column.
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SHOW CALENDAR
LIVE MUSIC: 13 EVENTS
St George's Bristol
Viridian
An artistic collective inspired by the feminist free improvisation vanguard
Simple Things Festival - Day
SImple Things Festival 2019 - Day
Bristol's premiere multi-venue music festival returns for an 18-hour musical marathon
Crofters Rights
The Jacques
+ special guests DAMEFRISØR & Blue Bendy
Mr Wolfs
The Surfin Birds + Melotone // Nino
A night of raucous rockabilly and alternative funk
LEFTBANK
SAOCO COLLECTIVE
Fiery Cuban Trumpet led Fiesta
The Attic Bar
Laid Blak
Bristol Legends live in the place
The Bristol Fringe
The Hangover Club
The Hangover Club
No.1 Harbourside
The Hucklebuck
Seven piece swinging blues/ jump blues band
The Oxford
Some Dogs - Live at The Oxford
Blowin' the lid on the country roots of punk - POOR DOGS
The Lanes
Sure Shot Launch Party!
Hip-hop and funk all night on vinyl!
Pasture
Saturday Night Swing Dance Social
A Double bill of Jazz & Swing
Bristol Folk House
Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds
Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds Singing It All Back Home: Appalachian Songs of English and Scottish Origin
Fiddlers
The Rockin' Revival: Polecats plus 3
If you like that great sound of old school rockabilly — you need to get yourself to Fiddlers, Bristol, on the 19th of October 2019!
CLUB NIGHTS: 13 EVENTS
The Loko Club
ErektTek
Erektronika + Lemtek: The Last Dry Eye In The House
Simple Things Festival 2019 - Night
Simple Things Festival 2019 - Night
The Night programme of Simple Things festival takes over the Lakota & Coroners Court complex
Crofters Rights
Cosmic Tropicana: Piers Soft Rocks
Join us on a moonship journey as we turn the Crofters back room into an interplanetary steam ship!
Museum Square, BS1 4RN
Free Silent Disco
A free silent rave on the harbourside!
Motion
in:Motion 2019 / Hospitality Bristol
Hospitality return to Bristol after a string of sold out shows featuring the biggest acts in DNB!
Lakota
Simple Things Festival 2019 - Night
Simple Things Night is back, taking over the Lakota & Coroners Court complex from 10 until very late with a stacked lineup of some of our ab
The Plough Inn
Free // October // Hot Buttered Soul x Soulworks @
Bristol's best kept free secret party
The Trinity Centre
Fight Klub Workout
FIGHT KLUB® is the high intensity fun workout that makes getting in shape an addiction.
To The Moon
Do-IY
As the summer comes to an end, and evenings get darker. The Do-IY Resident DJ's invite you all to come and venture with us in To The Moon.
Lakota
Shutdown: Benny Page & Carasel / Kelvin 373 & Inja
We're honoured to welcome down a pair of Jungle/DnB legends for a HUGE midweek rinse out!
The Old Market Assembly
Level Up! Reanimated
18+ Cosplay Night! 19h Oct 2019 @ The Old Market Assembly. Tickets @ http://www.levelupbristol.co.uk
The Hare on the Hill
Atomic! at the Hare
Atomic DJs spin jukebox classics and fancy grooves
The Gallimaufry
Satta Lites w/ More Soup
Beats, bumps & bass
NON MUSIC: 13 EVENTS
The Trinity Centre
IGNiTE - Macbeth by Proteus Theatre
This is a boldly visual and highly physical contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Ashton Court
FUTUR VILLE PARTY
An immersive theatrical soiree putting the Art back in the Party!
Arnolfini
Contra by Laura Murphy
Contra is fierce, witty and uncompromising - a solo cabaret of contraditions
Unit 15
Ballantine Scale by Jäntti&Venna (FI)
Gorgeous music and aerial performance from this world premiere from Finland
Space, 6 West Street, Old Market, Bristol BS2 0BH
Circus City Screening of Freaks
A casual screening of Tod Browning's 1932 cult film 'Freaks'
The Wardrobe Theatre
Koo Koo The Birdgirl by Sarah Houboult (AUS)
This is fresh, exceptional work from Australian Sarah Houbolt
Arnolfini
WORKSHOP | ZINE MAKING
Zinester Sophie Sherwood will share with you the art of creating this classic, low-fi, DIY form of publication.
Circomedia
Hive City Legacy Workshop
A hip-hop dance workshop for femmes of colour
The Cube
EL TESTIGO: CAÍN Y ABEL
Film + with talk with director Kate Horne + human rights lawyer Lina Malagón & chaired by Andrei Gómez-Suárez (University of Bristol).
The Cloak & Dagger
Close-up Magic at The Cloak and Dagger
Come and discover our magic bar downstairs the Cloak and Dagger!
Channings, Clifton
Les QUIZerables the singing quiz
A performance quiz like no other
Alma Tavern and Theatre
The Impracticality of Womanhood
What is it to be a woman in the modern world, and how impractical is it?
Circomedia
Hive City Legacy
Hive City Legacy is ready to strike back!