The Croft

The Croft

The legendary home of outsider bands and Bristol's dubstep heyday!


A Stokes Croft icon (formerly The Croft, then Crofters Rights) returns thanks to Music Venue Properties' 'Save Our Venues' Campaign + the team behind The Mothers Ruin, The Colosseum, The Crown and the live programming brains behind Exchange.

The lovingly revamped Croft will hold 140 sweaty gig-goers with a focus on live music - as well as carefully curated clubnights.

The doors will burst wide open on 12 September after a successful fundraising campaign. You can expect 14 beers on tap from local suppliers, 7 days a week. We can't bloody wait!

What's On At The Croft

Bodybag at The Croft
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metal hardcore-punk thrash metal
Fringe’s Bonfire Night at The Croft
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house uk garage electro breakbeat minimal tech house
Pulse Presents: Now That's What I Call Bristol at The Croft
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house uk garage 140 breakbeat speed garage
Truck Violence at The Croft
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punk hardcore-punk folk rock shoegaze
Down To Earth x Embody: Eoin DJ, Milly On Air, Ollie Kirk at The Croft
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house techno trance tech house progressive house
Sam Wills at The Croft
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soul hip hop neo soul electronic
Crippling Alcoholism at The Croft
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post-punk noise noise rock
Frail Body at The Croft
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alternative metal post-hardcore
Hangover Square at The Croft
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country rock electronic
Nightbus at The Croft
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Waterflower +TG Edwards + Jake Healy at The Croft
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experimental noise ambient art rock electronic
Laura Groves at The Croft
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folk indie folk
Chrome Plaza at The Croft
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techno uk garage electro breakbeat
Grime Stars: Milzy b2b Jaz Imsky w/ Sox + MORE at The Croft
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uk garage 140 breakbeat grime
From A Buick 6 play the songs of Bob Dylan at The Croft
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folk blues folk rock blues-rock delta blues
Negative Frame at The Croft
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metal hardcore-punk thrash metal
Broadsheets - Album Fundraiser Show at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock post-punk post rock trip hop
Doomsday at The Croft
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metal hardcore-punk thrash metal
CR: The Hive w/ Hexa B2B Leaf, TJB + More at The Croft
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drum and bass jungle 140
IDestroy at The Croft
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alternative rock
StepTwice Return To The Croft.. at The Croft
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soul reggae neo soul drum and bass jungle
Bloomtide at The Croft
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punk metal alternative metal
Headset w/ ???? at The Croft
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jungle 140 lgbtq+ uk funky trap music
The Non-denominational December Holiday Spectacular at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock pop punk art rock
Elly Hopkins at The Croft
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alternative rock indie folk country folk rock grunge
Dim Wizard, Cheerbleederz & Hamburger at The Croft
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indie rock rock punk indie pop pop punk
The Kabins + Special Guests at The Croft
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indie rock rock indie pop garage rock
Trashed at The Croft
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punk pop punk skate punk
Last Hounds at The Croft
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punk hip hop
Shoun Shoun at The Croft
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psych post-punk art rock psychedelic rock art pop
Bohemian Betyars at The Croft
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folk punk indie folk anti-folk
Two-Piece at The Croft
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metal
WAKEY WAKEY RISE & SHINE + SUPPORT at The Croft
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indie rock psych new wave
ABSOLVA at The Croft
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Mishikui at The Croft
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alternative rock punk metal shoegaze
Sugar Horse at The Croft
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metal alternative metal doom metal sludge metal
Dub Club Xmas Parties - Beatles Dub Club & 60s Dub Club at The Croft
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dub reggae ska house drum and bass
Dub Club Xmas Parties - 70s Dub Club & 80s Dub Club at The Croft
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dub reggae ska house drum and bass
Dub Club Xmas Parties - 90s Dub Club & 00s Dub Club at The Croft
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dub reggae ska house drum and bass
Calcine at The Croft
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metal hardcore-punk alternative metal thrash metal
Dylan LeBlanc at The Croft
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folk indie folk country
Sunflowers + Green Milk From The Planet Orange at The Croft
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psychedelic rock experimental rock hard rock garage rock prog rock
Pixel Grip at The Croft
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alternative pop
Beauty School at The Croft
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alternative rock indie rock pop punk emo
Ricardo Camembert presents Pavor Nocturnus at The Croft
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experimental noise industrial drone electronic
PLANTOID at The Croft
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jazz psych psychedelic rock progressive rock prog rock
Dead Pioneers at The Croft
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punk spoken word
CONGRATULATIONS at The Croft
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indie rock post-punk art rock
Lesbian Bed Death at The Croft
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punk hard rock goth

Get a feel for The Croft

Our recent recommendations for The Croft

Sell out warning! Dirty South Beatdown dragged screaming from the Florida swamps! Two-Piece lash plenty of homegrown death metal brutalism to their hxc slam in a sound engineered for Croft-sized pits. A violent awakening FFO: Sunami, Outta Pocket, Chain Gang, Madball. Two-Piece at The Croft.

Dim Wizard deliver radiant power-pop (led by ex-Spoonboy/Bad Moves legend David Combs) with geeky humour, cultural references, and positively gargantuan hooks. Expect bright, restless melodies on par with fellow indie-punk newschoolers like Ratboys, Superviolet, Jeff Rosenstock and Illuminati Hotties. Dim Wizard, Cheerbleederz & Hamburger at The Croft.

Crossover thrash shred-istation! Doomsday rise triumphant from the potent Bay Area DNA pool as the dominant 2020s evolution, serving bludgeoning riffs with a vile side of hxc snot alongside local pulse-racers Overpower. Pizza-thrashers stay home, this is the real deal FFO: Municipal Waste, Slayer, Power Trip, Cro-Mags, Iron Age, Enforced. Doomsday at The Croft.

Young and deadly metallic crossover brigade Negative Frame break down the walls of The Corft with their blistering barrage of deathcore stylings and hardcore beatdown. Monday feeding frenzy FFO: Suicidal Tendencies, DRAIN, Thy Art Is Murder, Jesus Piece. Negative Frame at The Croft.

Synthed-up mushrooms and plant-based noise… Ecofuturist Waterflower makes ecological avant-hardcore in unison with nature. The Latvian artist brings her orchestra of fungi and flora to The Croft for an enchanting and abrasive Sunday treat FFO: Livia Rita, AJA. Waterflower +TG Edwards + Jake Healy at The Croft.