Cafe Kino

Co-operative cafe with intimate performance space downstairs.


Since its move from Nine Tree Hill onto Stokes Croft, Cafe Kino has continued to build a sterling reputation both as an independent cafe and as an occasional music venue. The intimate events space beneath the cafe has a standing capacity of 65 and has attracted both local musicians and established Bristol promoters Qu Junktions.

What's On At Cafe Kino

MORGANE NERIDA / LOUPS DE VIRGINIE at Cafe Kino
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electro folk experimental industrial jazz
What a Drag Another Open Mic? at Cafe Kino
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open mic experimental lgbtq+ drag cabaret
Loud Enough Music at Cafe Kino
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open mic indie rock punk
GreenStage Presents - Mary Mina at Cafe Kino
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trance folk singer-songwriter jazz soul
Hangover Square at Cafe Kino
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electronic electro alternative rock folk rock experimental
SHOVE , SNEER and TENSION at Cafe Kino
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post-hardcore hardcore-punk punk garage rock
Loula Yorke - at Cafe Kino
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ambient downtempo electronic experimental

Get a feel for Cafe Kino

Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino

SSP returns from their near death experience to shake Kino with sonic oblivion through the Chewing Glass Subs. Inside: Severin Black’s isolationist drone landscapes and Nic Krog’s spoken word hardware confessionals. Delectable outsider clobber FFO: Pan Sonic, Biosphere, Nick Klein, Pavel Milyakov, Dale Cornish. ...are you healed yet?

Love harsh noise and power electronics, but need more queer rage? Eggy Tapes has got you covered, with nail-biting pedal abuse from Distraxi, Genderisthebastard’s grind-jazz blitz and Puddle Brain’s dark ambient feedback tunnels. Savage FFO: Merzbow, Painkiller, Puce Mary, Dreamcrusher, Gnaw Their Tongues. An evening of queer noise at Cafe Kino

ICYMI: Bristol's fave radical community space and vegan mecca urgently needs your help, having fought to keep its doors open through the pummellings of Covid + the cozzie livs crises. This is a no-brainer night of local faves inc Noods gem Radio Limbo, jazzbient oddball collective Improv’s Greatest Hits, plus folk, queer Morris dancing + more, with all profits to Kino’s fundraiser. 20 more years!!! Fundraiser to secure the future of a Bristol institution

The Stokes Croft institution, radical community space, and much-loved vegan mecca brings you a stacked three days and nights of anniversary celebrations, ft live music + art, films, workshops, circus acts… the list goes on. Our highlight: Saturday night’s crust cabaret The Fleabag Ball. All funds go towards renovations for the venue so dig deep! Join us in celebrating 20 years of this queer community space in the heart of Stokes Croft

Meemo Comma’s cybernetic ambient breakbeat paired with live 303-drenched melodic techno from prolific local producer Tudor Acid. Fans of Seefeel, Aphex Twin + golden era Planet Mu / Warp / Rephlex squelches; your new favourite artist might be on this lineup. Conceptronica legend returns to Bristol