Cafe Kino
Co-operative cafe with intimate performance space downstairs.
Cafe Kino is a collectively run vegan cafe and radical grassroots arts hub in Stokes Croft. Fiercely progressive and unapologetically queer-led, its 75-standing capacity basement hosts everything from DIY punk, hardcore and alt-folk gigs to arts workshops and avant-garde film screenings, all rooted in independence and collective care.
What's On At Cafe Kino
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alternative rock
goth
grunge
post-punk
punk
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alternative rock
doom metal
folk rock
garage rock
psychedelic rock
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folk
freak folk
indie folk
singer-songwriter
lgbtq+
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alternative hip hop
art pop
electronic
experimental
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world
workshops & classes
talks
protests & marches
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doom metal
post-hardcore
sludge metal
stoner rock
hardcore-punk
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pop punk
punk
skate punk
metal
hardcore-punk
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acid house
ambient
disco house
electronic
footwork
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alternative rock
post-punk
punk
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alternative rock
anti-folk
experimental
folk
post-punk
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blues
folk
indie rock
singer-songwriter
traditional folk
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alternative rock
experimental
folk
indie rock
post-punk
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alternative rock
emo
grunge
post-hardcore
shoegaze
Get a feel for Cafe Kino
Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
Weirdo Stroom-coded esoteric post-rock from Or Sobre Blau - music drenched in whimsical guitar playing and free-folk freakery, twisting between wild abandon and loose-limbed free-improv. Paired with Regina Collage & Cameron Smith's doomy slow-punk kraut-dub, this is oddball perfection!
Terror Management Presents: Or Sobre Blau (Ubaldo + Kiran Leonard) + Stoop + Woolley Truscott duo @ Cafe Kino
Self-described 'postmodern power duo' Big Trousers will crash their car right into your hearts with their droll, well-observed and uncomfortably relatable post-punk. Oh and they've promised to eviscerate Mark Zuckerberg and kill the royal family. Hell yeah. FFO: The Streets, The Chisel, Powerplant.
Blowout Presents Big Trousers, TV Wife and The Screaming Dolls at Cafe Kino, Bristol
Caroline cellist and singer Jasper Llewellyn brings the widescreen feelings of his band’s idealistic universe to Kino’s basement for a solo show of tremulous, weather-beaten vocals drifting over simmering arrangements. Earnest yearning FFO: Perfume Genius, Mount Eerie, early Low.
Welcoming Jasper Llewellyn (of the group Caroline) on his debut solo tour. Support comes from Bristol's Danny Riley and debut performance from London's cot head.
IYKYK! A Peel-lauded 90s phenomenon with countless imitators and Franz Ferdinand/Country Teasers progenitors lurking among their ranks! The Yummy Fur’s angular, absurdist, 2-minute art-punk bruisers earnt them an undying cult following, despite their mysterious low profile and 4-albums-in-4-decades output. Truly a historic one FFO: Wire, The Fall, The Soft Boys, Half Man Half Biscuit.
Glasgow indie legends return to Bristol
Misgendered have finally minted their sludge-down apocalypse of a debut EP! Let's see how many synchronised windmills can occur in Kino while Witherhorde scare ya silly with their Merseyside deathcore fantasies and Byford Dolphin Incident crank out their red-lined mathy powerviolence. Queercore is lyf!
Blowout and Deathstare presents Misgendered, Witherhorde and Byford Dolphin Incident at Cafe Kino, Bristol