Top venues (20)
Festival Grounds
Long Ashton
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Historic country estate rolling hills; spiritual festival grounds of Bristol's early free-party and community festivals.
Frogmore St / Central
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Subterranean multi-vault brick arches; intimate underground room for local DJ collectives, garage, and bassline.
St Paul's & Old Market
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Subterranean cellar bar operating since the 1970s; reggae, dub, and intimate Sunday dubstep/steppers sessions.
Stokes Croft
Bristol Harbourside & Stokes Croft
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Craft beer hub with a dark backroom hosting experimental club sounds, lo-fi house, and bass music.
Warehouse
St Jude's / St Philips
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5,000-capacity former document storage warehouse launched by the Motion team for large-scale electronic showcases.
Old Market
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Community-owned live music venue and basement club supporting DIY dance nights and leftfield electronic promoters.
Stokes Croft
Bristol Harbourside & Stokes Croft
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Multi-space hub with a large courtyard; weekly home for UK garage, ska-punk, drum & bass, and reggae.
Warehouse
St Philips
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The defining 2010s industrial warehouse series that established Bristol as an autumn clubbing destination.
St Paul's & Old Market
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Operating since 1992; multi-room former coroner's court and courtyard anchoring Bristol's jungle, drum & bass, and rave heritage.
St Judes & Old Market
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Created by the team behind Glastonbury's Shangri-La; independent venue for forward-thinking electronic, digital art, and queer clubbing.
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St Philips & Feeder Road
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Former skatepark and marble factory warehouse complex on the canal; home to the legendary In:Motion seasonal series.
City Centre
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Community-funded DIY arts space, cafe, and club; champion of outsider electronica, live post-punk, modular synth, and ambient.
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SWX
City Centre
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High-capacity commercial and touring venue equipped with state-of-the-art lighting and laser arrays for touring dance acts.
Easton & Stapleton Rd
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The raw, unpolished home of underground Bristol bass culture; sprawling beer garden hosting multi-rig sound system battles and roots dub.
Stokes Croft
Bristol Harbourside & Stokes Croft
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Community gathering space beneath the Banksy mural; live afrobeat, latin electronics, and weekend DJ sessions.
City Centre
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Underground police cells and courtroom repurposed for intimate, claustrophobic techno and darkwave raves.
St Philips Industrial
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Independent grassroots music venue and licensed collective; global bass, afrobeat, and live live-electronic jams.
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Thekla
Bristol Harbourside & Stokes Croft
Bristol Harbourside & Stokes Croft
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German cargo ship moored in the Mud Dock since 1984; subterranean hull dancefloor and top-deck bar for D&B, techno, and electro.
Stokes Croft
Bristol Harbourside & Stokes Croft
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Vibrant Stokes Croft bar and dance space; warm wooden interior hosting house, disco, and Team Love resident selectors.
St Paul's & Old Market
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Converted Grade II-listed Victorian church; community arts and sound-system institution steeped in UK dub, roots, and dubstep roots.
Bristol Harbourside & Stokes Croft
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St Paul's & Old Market
5 venues
St Philips & Feeder Road
5 venues