Dance clubs, live music, rooftop bars, speakeasies, LGBTQ+ venues, listening bars and late-night dives in Bristol.
Dance clubs, live music, rooftop bars, speakeasies, LGBTQ+ nightlife, listening bars and late-night dives across Bristol, with where to go and what is worth the late night.
Motion turns a riverside skatepark-turned-warehouse complex into Bristol's biggest club, an internationally booked home of techno and drum and bass nights.
Lakota has carried Bristol rave culture since the early 1990s, its Stokes Croft warren of rooms now joined by the Moon Club and the open-air Gardens space.
Thekla stages gigs and club nights in the hold of a 1958 German cargo ship moored in Bristol's Mud Dock, an institution of a venue running since 1984.
Strange Brew mixes club nights, gigs and art shows in its Fairfax Street event space, the connoisseur's small room of central Bristol's night-time scene.
The Old Duke runs free jazz and blues every single night of the week on King Street, Bristol's cornerstone jazz pub in a building dating from around 1775.
The Fleece has hosted touring bands in a Grade II listed former wool hall since 1982, Bristol's classic sticky-floored 450-capacity rock room by Temple Meads.
The Louisiana books tomorrow's bands into a harbourside corner pub, the small Bristol room that hosted Amy Winehouse and Muse on their way up the bill.
Exchange is Bristol's community-owned, not-for-profit music venue on Old Market Street, keeping punk, DIY and brand-new bands on its stage almost nightly.
The Canteen stages free live bands most nights under Hamilton House's murals, the Stokes Croft room where Bristol's music scenes casually cross-pollinate.
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Successfully smuggle your liquor past the Warden and serve your time with a covert supply of personalised cocktails. This is the bar behind bars, where the serving inm...
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The Espresso Martini was invented by British bar tender Dick Bradsell in London. Legend has it that a ‘top model’ asked for a drink that would ‘wake me up and f**k me ...
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Sip a garnished Bristol Dry Gin and tonic on arrival at St Nicholas Market, then taste five in-house seasonal gins. Learn the distillery's history, how botanicals are ...
Bambalan spreads Bristol's biggest sun terrace across the Beacon Tower podium, tacos and frozen cocktails soundtracked by summer day parties.
Seven Lucky Gods holds Cargo 2's top deck at Wapping Wharf, where highballs and sake face the harbour cranes from the best of Bristol's container rooftops.
The Milk Thistle hides four floors of carved-wood cocktail rooms behind an unmarked door on Colston Avenue, the grand flagship speakeasy of central Bristol.
Filthy XIII hides award-listed cocktails behind a deliberately scruffy Cheltenham Road shopfront, the Bristol bar where the city's bartenders drink off-shift.
Queenshilling has flown the flag on Frogmore Street for decades as Bristol's long-running LGBTQ+ club, with pop-heavy weekend nights and karaoke specials.
The Phoenix is an independent queer-owned pub on Champion Square, Bristol, mixing Sunday roasts, a big garden and its monthly DTYM club night.
Strange Brew's soundsystem makes it Bristol's closest thing to a listening bar, with record-led early sessions before the club nights start.
Dareshack pairs its coffee bar with a studio stage on Wine Street, hosting intimate Bristol sessions where the room listens rather than talks.
The Mothers' Ruin is the Old City's proudest dive bar, gin by name and band stickers by decor, with gigs upstairs and late Bristol pints down below.
The Love Inn keeps Stokes Croft dancing until 04:00 at weekends, Team Love's tin-signed Bristol local with a serious soundsystem and free early entry.
The Beer Emporium's cellars pour until 03:00 most nights, the late-shift refuge of Bristol's King Street with Pepenero pizza flying out past midnight.
