From huge clubnights and Alfresco Disco NYE to pub back rooms this is the
essential new year's events list.
Around mid November every year the same question is on everyone's lips - what's
on in Bristol on New Years Eve? This page aims to answer that question and
provide complete listings for New Years Eve events in Bristol.
In Bristol there's a whole wealth of exciting nights out on New Years that
frankly aren't available the rest of the year, with this in mind plan your night
carefully and remember that tickets for popular events sell out fast.
Unique options for what's on Bristol new years eve are all listed below.
Bristol's biggest venues like to really up the anti with venues like Lakota and
Motion turning out some of Bristol's most spectacular club nights to date.
Bristol's best bands also work their balls off, missioning around the city
playing multiple new years eve gigs. Unlikely buildings and pubs become one-off
venues - booking bands, selling tickets (typically around £10) and welcoming
ridiculously late licenses. Refreshingly it's these pubs that can provide some
of the best live music and intimate atmospheres to be found in Bristol on NYE
2025. This is the most complete run down of whats on in Bristol on
the 31st December 2025 this side of the Bristol suspension bridge.
Our editor's top live music recommendation
Sell out warning! Soft Butch returns for an adventurous deep dive into butchness and no-phone dancefloor somatics. With queer spoken word excellence from Manganaro and dizzying acrobatics from Zooni before DJ LEXX unleashes the dancehall / dnb / afrobeat heat.
SOFT BUTCH with Manganaro and Zoonii at Strange Brew.
Real roots and culture and righteous steppas at Kuumba Centre once again! Two Step Forward continue a unbeaten run of proper authentic community dances with Tottenham’s foundational Entebbe soundsystem meeting Southall’s next gen Vedic Roots. 2 sounds in one arena, iItal food, upful vibes and sub-shaking stacks all under one roof.
TWO STEP FORWARD: ENTEBBE MEETS VEDIC ROOTS at Kuumba Centre.
An essential annual tradition in the Bristol music calendar, Bruce’s next Turn brings us a heady, free-wheeling concoction. There’s Glasgow’s cult industrial-art-punk trio Kübler-Ross (featuring the Dave Clark aka ½ Optimo), Marylou’s psychedelic, slinking, bass-fuelled dancefloor pilgrimages, and an unpredictable but assuredly mind-bending b2b from Madteo and Bruce.
TURN'25 : Madteo b2b Bruce, Kübler-Ross, Marylou at Strange Brew.
Yuuup, we are in for a treat! Heavily satisfying, gliding amapiano cuts combined with dank afro-house-funk unleashed by See No Evil for their new musikal endeavour at Death Disco. Low-slung sultry jams warm enough to keep away the January blues FFO: Shannen SP, Ikonika, Príncipe Records.
See No Evil w/ DJ Play, Khiah Lou & Terminal 4 at Death Disco.
Sell out warning! Unmissable roots, subs and culture with King Original blazing the grime x steppas lineage bright on a truly historical Lazarus-like sound. Footsie and Sir Spyro will be paying their dues to ancestral bass-weight joined by Shaka-grade royalty in earthly form: Dub Judah! Topped by a live desk masterclass from Kibir la Amlak, this will be an ital, vital, dub-wise education for the masses.
Teachings in Dub - King Original, Dub Judah, KLA at The Trinity Centre.
Sell out warning! Before Tiger King, before Grizzly Man, there was Roar: a crazed and misguided culmination of a Hollywood big cat breeding obsession that should never have been allowed. It’s the closest you’ll ever get to a safari snuff film, from megalomaniac furry (and director of The Exorcist) Noel Marshall in association with the cultural anarchists at Bristol Bad Film Club.
Part of a flesh devouring double bill
I'm always blown away by the scale of the lineups curated by Bristol's promoters
over new years. Laurels are not rested upon and all the stops are pulled out.
Motion's consistently immense new year's day line-ups are, without douby, some
of the best this city has ever seen. But for many people, the ideal NYE in
Bristol is a small party with a handful of their closest friends. Bristol
promoters are well aware that small can also be beautiful, so we've listed 5 of
the smallest NYE parties in Bristol below:
“The dress code for the night is strictly black tie, but feel free to add a glamorous New Orleans twist—think feathers, beads, and fabrics that dazzle under the moonlit sky. Join us as we count down to midnight and usher in the new year with a touch of Southern elegance and a burst of festive joy.”
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New Year's Eve at the Square Club
