Dareshack is a listening bar in Old City, Bristol.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Evening shows are announced on the venue diary; day visits preview the space over a filter coffee.
Address: Vintry Building, Wine Street, Bristol BS1 2BD
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.
Tip: Pair it with Seamus O'Donnell's next door and you have Bristol's smallest, best two-stop crawl.
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.
Tip: Last orders land at 01:45; it is the sensible-drinks answer to the question of where to go after the pubs shut.
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.
Tip: Pair it with Seamus O'Donnell's next door and you have Bristol's smallest, best two-stop crawl.
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.
Tip: Free entry runs to 22:00 most nights; the Team Love bookings outclass the bar's dive-bar looks.
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.
Tip: Last orders land at 01:45; it is the sensible-drinks answer to the question of where to go after the pubs shut.
Motion turns a riverside skatepark-turned-warehouse complex into Bristol's biggest club, an internationally booked home of techno and drum and bass nights.
Tip: Buy tickets ahead through the club's own site; the Marble Factory next door handles the live shows.
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.
Tip: The Gardens day events sell out fastest; the original rooms still deliver the sweaty jungle history lesson.
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.
Tip: Pressure on Thursdays and Pop Confessional on Saturdays are the student rites; check the hull for the Banksy grim reaper story.
