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Events in Bristol

Made famous by the legendary Lakota, Bristol's warehouse events are the keystone to the city's clubbing culture. These no-frills venues are the place to see Bristol's house and techno at it's best. If you need addmission to forthcoming warehouse parties, you can buy Dare2 tickets here.

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Events in Bristol

Headfirst is Bristol's leading gig guide with a freshly launched online ticket shop. We work directly with the city's promoters to provide the most up-to-date guide what's on in Bristol you'll find. The events calendar includes all events happening in Bristol tonight and for the forthcoming weekend. If you're a musician, band member or club night organiser be sure to add your event to the Headfirst Bristol calendar.

Thu 14th May
Maisie Peters - early show at The Trinity Centre
Sat 27th June
JK Flesh at Strange Brew
Thu 11th June
Theo Katzman at The Trinity Centre
— The Trinity Centre

Theo Katzman in Bristol Tickets

Thu 14th May
Maisie Peters late show at The Trinity Centre
Tue 5th May
GANS at The Fleece
Mon 8th June
Ben Kweller at The Fleece

Gig Tickets

Bristol has always had it's fair share of what's on resources. While paper-based listings magazines like Venue and forums like Hijack Bristol favoured certain musical niches, Headfirst was Bristol's first truly comprehensive what's on resource. Our listings not only go far into the future (click on a date in the calendar) but also provide some great last minute resources. If you're planning a night out at short notice please see our list of live music tonight and events listings for this weekend.

Venues like Bristol Beacon and Thekla usually get most of the attention when Bristol's gigs are discussed online. Headfirst aims to put the focus on Bristols smaller live music venues. Here, you can buy tickets for concerts at Bristol's Louisiana and Exchange or browse our entire Bristol gig list.

Wed 27th May
Don West at The Trinity Centre
— The Trinity Centre

Don West in Bristol Tickets

Tue 12th May
Thistle at Rough Trade Bristol
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Thistle in Bristol Tickets

Sun 3rd May
My New Band Believe + guests at Rough Trade Bristol
Fri 26th June
1000 Rabbits at Cafe Kino
Mon 20th April
Son Little + Guests TBC at Strange Brew

What's On: Featured Bristol Events

Tickets for our event recommendations

Sell out warning! Manchester’s peerless renegades of post-punk funk who’ve distilled everything from post-disco to Brazilian jazz into a sound that spawned a generation of bands like the Rapture or Sink Ya Teeth. Sounding revitalised 40 years in, they revisit two stone-cold classic LPs in a no-brainer nostalgiafest FFO Liquid Liquid, ESG, Talking Heads, New Order, !!!, LCD Soundsystem. A Certain Ratio at Exchange.

In an unmissable encounter of two souls, Ablaye Cissoko’s kora weaves ancient echoes through French accordion virtuoso Cyrille Brotto’s haunting drones. Their delicate interplay crafts a storytelling journey through grief, crafting ancient narratives into contemporary soundscapes. Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto at The Jam Jar.

Sell out warning! Recently department My Dying Bride legend in 60 cap church gig with our favourite local chamber goths Dead Space Chamber Music? Whatever this dream is, please don't wake us up! Dark Alchemy VII at Church of St Thomas the Martyr.

Sell out warning! Shit-splattered Czech goregrind greats come to shower you in punishing riffs, hella catchy cricket vocals and digestive tract samples. What else do you need to know? Big goofy scat metal fun incoming FFO: Spasm, Ahumado Granujo, Impetigo, Dead Infection, Rompeprop. Gutalax at Exchange.

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Sell out warning! Rotting Christ! In Bristol? The first time in a GENERATION!? We’d get a ticket just for that and 11 hours of silence. But hell there’s also mythical Fenland black metal cvltleaders Infernal Sea, hostile deathgrind veterans Benighted, raw and ritualist Scottish atmoblack from Fuath + your only chance to see Kranuum’s slam brutality this year without hopping a plane. Praying to Baphomet for Extreme Fest 2027 already... BRISTOL EXTREME FEST 2026 at The Trinity Centre.

Sell out warning! Just like Glasto, but with blastbeats instead of hippies! The Blastonbree battle jacket utopia is spawning at the arse-end of Stokes Croft for 12 hours of unrelenting grindgore and brutal death metal cloaked in unreadable typefaces. It’s the only place in Blighty you’re gonna see Dutch slam monsters Korpse this year, so make this act of wanton sonic lobotomy truly count kids! BLASTONBREE 2026 at The Full Moon & Attic Bar.

Sell out warning! Norwich’s super-underrated Algae Bloom take a final Bristol bow with a playthrough of their now-classic debut release. The skramz duo are masters of dark transcendental bliss brewed through yelpy bursts of energy, scattershot rhythms and spindly arpeggios. Unmissable ferocity FFO: Snowing, Dreamwell, Unwound, Algernon Cadwallader. Algae Bloom 10 Year Anniversary Show at Cafe Kino.

Sell out warning! Reverent folk blues played on 12 string guitar with the poetic fervour of Townes Van Zandt, summoning the same ghosts of mental illness and the mundane country sprawl. Parr isn’t a revivalist - he’s one of the last of the true originals. Charlie Parr at Exchange.

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Headfirst is the most objective Bristol gig guide on the internet. With no editorial to write, bands to interview or advertisers to please, we can focus on creating the best music listings & ticket shop this side of the Avon. From Bristol University’s music graduates playing a concert at St Georges Hall to an intimate gig at The Louisiana - we believe these events are what make Bristol special.

Bristol Nightlife & Nightclubs

Electronic music produced in Bristol has a knack of rewriting the rules and penetrating the international club scene. From Tectonic to Apple Pips to Eats Everything & Arkist - Headfirst has seen Bristol’s music scene grow and evolve since our humble beginnings in 2008. Now Headfirst is working with Bristol’s best dance music promoters and providing a secure place to buy tickets for Bristol club nights. While Motion may catch most of the attention, Headfirst is the place to buy tickets for all Bristol's clubnights and maybe even the next Alfresco Disco party. Over the coming months we'll be adding buy tickets buttons to many of our what's on listings.

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Bristol Experimental Music

The Headfirst music guide originally emerged from Bristol's blossoming experimental scene and our humble beginnings were as a what's on guide for Bristol's weirdest and most unconventional events.