The Bristol Fringe

The Bristol Fringe

Bar in Clifton with regular live music.


The Bristol Fringe is a small bar and live music venue in Clifton. Live music can be found regularly in the front bar while the Bristol Fringe's back room is host to intimate gigs a couple of times a month. The front room / bar is always free while entry to gigs in the back room ranges from £3 to £6. Live music usually starts around 9pm and The Bristol Fringe is open until midnight except on Fridays and Saturdays when the venue remains open until 1am.

The music policy at the Bristol Fringe is diverse with previous bands including Vamos, Andy Sheppard, Muff Said and Jake Mclurchie.

What's On At The Bristol Fringe

John E Vistics Acoustic Lounge at The Bristol Fringe
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blues-rock country blues folk
Moonshine Malarkey at The Bristol Fringe
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new orleans blues country blues swing
Tanglejack at The Bristol Fringe
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alternative rock folk folk rock singer-songwriter
Paul Dodgson with Ian Harris at The Bristol Fringe
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folk folk rock folk-pop singer-songwriter
Ludetka at The Bristol Fringe
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alternative pop pop hip hop festival
Jonah Hitchens Band at The Bristol Fringe
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contemporary jazz alternative rock jazz soul funk
Alamo Leal at The Bristol Fringe
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blues-rock blues folk rock
Furlined at The Bristol Fringe
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alternative pop pop rock country singer-songwriter
Station 2 Station at The Bristol Fringe
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pop alternative rock indie rock folk rock
BLYTHE JANE at The Bristol Fringe
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folk folk-pop singer-songwriter
The Peach Parade at The Bristol Fringe
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drag theatre comedy cabaret
Peter Lane & The Sailing Stones at The Bristol Fringe
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indie folk indie pop indie rock folk
Beaujacks at The Bristol Fringe
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blues-rock pub rock prog rock rock classic rock
Pontchartrain at The Bristol Fringe
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blues-rock soft rock classic rock rockabilly blues
Jack Calloway & The Midnight Creepers at The Bristol Fringe
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big band contemporary jazz jazz swing

Get a feel for The Bristol Fringe

Our recent recommendations for The Bristol Fringe

A unique experimental exhumation of the outlandish jazz manouche of Jacques Montagne. This fresh quartet - ft. Adrian Utley (Portishead), Alex Bishop (on Django’s beloved steel-string Maccaferri guitar), Riaan Vosloo (double bass) and Ross Hughes (clarinets) - will astound with a sound somewhere between Tchavolo Schmitt, Roland Kirk and Link Wray. Jazz Manouche - Electric Django Reinhardt - Experimental Improv

Free entry! Celestial cinema from multidisciplinary artist collective Snowapple: ‘A Moonless Night’ is a surrealist cabaret that follows the moon’s fall to earth, merging animation, poetry and dance in a dreamlike, shapeshifting odyssey. A short film from music collective, Snowapple

Superlative hard-bop ft. Ronnie Scott’s veteran in-house drummer Spike Wells totally reinvigorated in a trio spanning three generations. And hey, they can really wail - sailing through a repertoire of Monk, Ellington, Lee Morgan and Stone-Lonergan’s fresh compositions. Spellbinding stuff from Bristol’s House of Jazz (aka the Fringe). Riley Stone-Lonergan, Spike Wells, Eddie Myer

Rare deep listening treat for Blue Note heads in celebration of one of jazz’s great tenors, Joe Henderson. A high quality playback session of his fourth hard bop firecracker In’n’Out leads into a thrilling live re-interpretation of the disc by the Fringe in the Round Allstars. Get those feet tapping! Bristol's only circular jazz and improvisation night!