ft Gregory Fabulous

Roots Injection Sound System

ft Brother Culture & Idren Natural

• Jah Shaka Soundsystem
• 2 Kings
• Rudey Lee
• Donovan Kingjay
• Laidblak

+ Big Deal

Drenge are an English two-piece grunge / post grunge band based in Castleton in Derbyshire. The band is made up of Eoin Loveless, on guitar and vocals, and his younger brother Rory, on drums. They take their name from the Danish word for "boys", although it is pronounced differently

Last few tickets available from: Ticketweb

Ages – 14 +

Stage times: Big Deal 8.30pm / Drenge 9.30pm

Drake has received accolades including Rolling Stone’s 10 Country Artists You Need to Know, The Grammy’s Artist of Tomorrow, and the British CMA Awards’ International Song of the Year; as well as sharing the stage with Country music superstars like Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Zac Brown Band.

Tickets on sale: Fri 25th March 10am

Please note, this is a standing show

Please read our COVID-19 Safety Policy for information on attending events during this time.

The line up, featuring Bristol’s finest musicians and vocalists, brings incredible energy to the stage every time they play. From nightclubs to muddy fields, the band have torn up venues earning them many accolades and awards, including winning Glastonbury Festival’s Live Act Competition. Following the release of the chart-topping album ‘Dirt & Soul’ on Circus Records, they are continuing on the road to deliver their unique strain of the world-renowned Bristol sound, and now, the hugely anticipated new album is finally about to drop...

19:50: doors

20:00: Ray Mighty

20:40: SUV

21:20: YB Micz & Rellz

21:35: Daddy G & Queen Bee

22:45 Dr Meaker

00:00: Curfew

Please note this is a standing event, accessible seating is available.

Last entry: 2 hours before curfew

Venue levy: Trinity has introduced a £1 Restoration Levy on every event ticket sold. This income will be used to create a dedicated fund for critical building works that will protect and maintain the Trinity Centre building and grounds.

Saint Raymond **

Swim Deep**

Hudson Taylor // Best Coast** // Fat White Family** // The Wytches** 

Prides // Laura Doggett  //  Honeyblood  //  Hinds**  //  Josef Salvat

Alex Burey / Alfie Connor / The Amazons / April Towers / Cairobi / Cymbals Eat Guitars / Delamere / Flesh / Francisco The Man / The Griswolds / Holy Holy / The Hotelier / Laurel / Little May / Man Made / Menace Beach / Model Aeroplanes / Neon Waltz / Oscar and the Wolf / Pixel Fix / Pretty Vicious / REMI / The Riptide Movement / Racing Glaciers / Single Mothers / Sugarmen / Tei Shi / VANT / VÉRITÉ / Vitamin / Walking on Cars

More Bristol Bands announced!

Alex Lipinski Band / Aztecs / Bad News / Bad Sounds / Boa / Brockley Forest / Caravaggio / Confectionery / Ed Penfold / Ema Sierra / Emi Mcdade / Fenne lily / Flower Fellow / Foreign Affairs / Forgery lit / Fossette / Hanging Tree / Harriet Rock / High Climbers / Joe Probert / Karma Repair Kit / Liberto Wolf / Little Dusty / Natalie Holmes / New Palace Talkies / Nicholson Heal Band / October Drift / Robin Mitchell’s Featherweight Soul / Rozelle / Sam Brockington / Saskia Maxwell / Sienna Chorus / Something Anorak / Sons / Tamu Massif / The Blunderbuss Press / The Death of Pop / The Jesuits / The Rupees / The Travis Waltons / Twin Falls / White Parker / Why We Love

At Bristol O2 Academy, Thekla, The Fleece, The Exchange, The Louisiana, Trinity Centre, Start the Bus, The Birdcage

(** indicates guaranteed 14+, under 18s will only have access to o2 Academy and Trinity)

Winner of ‘Best Metropolitan Festival’ at UK Festival Awards 2013
'Dot to Dot offers a unique experience for festival-goers and artists alike’ – efestivals
‘With a stunning bill and venues within yards of one another we’ll leave you to join the dots’ - Clash

Dot To Dot Festival is established as the UKs premier festival for unearthing the hottest new talent around, alongside established acts from all over the globe. 2015 marks the festival’s 10th year and will see it returning to Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham from the 22nd to 24th May. Dot To Dot’s ever eclectic line-up is set to make this landmark year the biggest and best in the festival’s history.

With lots of exciting announcements to follow, this is just the first wave of artists to play this year’s Festival:

Following a stand out set at last year’s festival, headlining this year’s festival will be Saint Raymond, Nottingham’s latest success story. It’s been an incredible year for the singer-songwriter, which has seen him embark on an arena tour with Ed Sheeran as well as a take on a sell-out headline tour of his own. Twenty-one year old Rae Morris also joins the festival in Manchester and Nottingham following a sold out UK tour and top 10 critically acclaimed album “Unguarded’. Irish pop folk duo Hudson Taylor, comprising of brothers Harry and Alfie join the bill, along with The Wytches who bring their blend of critically acclaimed surf-psych to the festival. Also joining Dot To Dot 2015 are Canadian punk-rock band Single Mothers and New York based indie-rockers, Cymbals Eat Guitars.

Glaswegian duo Honeyblood bring their brand of grunge-pop to the festival alongside the folk infused Haim-esque harmonies from Australian trio Little May and Hinds (formerly known as Deers), the garage rock up and comers from Madrid. Laura Doggett (whose music you may recognise from ITV Series Broadchurch) will also perform with her distinctive soulful sound along with the hotly tipped pop fuzz of Menace Beach. Further along the line up, Dot To Dot fans can expect to hear sensual R&B pop courtesy of Brooklyn based singer Tei Shi, atmospheric indie sounds from Racing Glaciers and 4-piece Welsh rock band Pretty Vicious who’ll perform their angsty anthems at the Bristol and Nottingham dates. The full line-up also features Alex Burey’s tenderly emotional pop music, the ‘80s infused electro pop of April Towers and the playful bohemian indie tunes of Vitamin as well as many, many more incredible acts yet to be announced!

Dot To Dot Organiser Anton Lockwood (of DHP Family) said: ‘We’re very excited to be celebrating our 10th birthday here at Dot To Dot and can’t wait to bring the festival back to Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham! We’re proud of the reputation we’ve developed over the last 10 years for promoting new, up and coming talent by giving artists their first chance in front of a festival crowd, and this year’s line-up is no different. Having seen so many previous Dot To Dot artists become huge successes in recent years
we can’t wait to watch some of the emerging talent that the music scene has to offer at this year’s festival. This announcement is only the start of it!’

Previous Dot to Dot line-ups have seen performances from The xx, Mumford and Sons, The 1975, London Grammar, Jake Bugg, SBTKRT, The Cribs, Peace and many, many more. With the emphasis on showcasing the hottest new talent on the planet, there will be lots more exciting additions to be announced for Dot To Dot’s 2015 line-up.

Make sure you keep checking www.dottodotfestival.co.uk/ for all the latest news and ticket info.
www.facebook.com/dottodotfestival
www.twitter.com/d2dbristol
www.instagram/d2dfest

Dope Ammo’s long awaited new album has finally arrived and we will be celebrating with a heavy weight jungle and drum and bass line up that you won’t want to miss! Packed with legends of the scene and some of the hottest up and coming acts this is set to be one hell of a night!

Special Guest tba

We've lined up a legend in the scene to top off this huge line up. We'll be announcing after the summer, see if you can guess who we have lined up.

Benny Page ft Mc Spyda

Jungle/DnB Champion Selecta.....the badman Benny Page!

Dropping some fire ragga jungle and some exclusive album remixes that he's done for the forthcoming album! Joining him is none only than MC Spyda AKA “BLACK TARANTULA” is a legend in the game and respected globally for his unique vocal technique and delivery.

Serial Killaz

Rabble-rousing ragga vocals, bubbling bouncy bass, cut-throat beats, undiluted positive vibes: to have such a distinctive sound in today’s talent-packed game is a rare, rare asset. But with two careers that can be traced back to the earliest stages of rave, what do you expect?

Dope Ammo ft Trafic MC

Dope Ammo and Trafic MC will be will be performing an album showcase with all the new hot tracks and exclusives that have never been heard before from the brand new album.

Octo Pi b2b Modify Perspective

Octo Pi is certainly a rising star in drum and bass and UKF described him as a "serious banger merchant". He'll be teaming up with Liquifyah head honcho Modify Perspective for what can only be described as damn right NAWTY!!

Bear Twists

One of Tremor's most versatile DJs Bear Twists will open proceedings with his usual twist of bass heavy silliness.

hosts:

MC Sye

Y Dott

Twitchee

Illustrate

Please note this is a standing event

Music student plays at the Garden Part at Trinty

Young musicians from Trinity, Basement Studios & Aspiration Creation Elevation (ACE@Docklands) set to take the stage at this years St Paul’s Carnival.

Performing on the Unity Stage, hosted by ACE, young musicians will be given a chance to shine in this years Carnival – performing alongside some of Bristol’s most popular artists. On these experience Cherelle Grant, Music Tutor at ACE said, "these talented young people have been working hard each week to create, prepare, and rehearse songs for St Pauls Carnival. Making Tracks has provided a focused environment, with skilled tutors to help them set objectives that will see them elevate their creativity and confidence."

The young people are supported by the Making Tracks project – a two year collaborative project between Trinity, Basement and ACE. Making Tracks offers young people the chance to take part in a wide range of life changing music making activities alongside 121 and group tutoring young people benefit from mentoring, peer learning and joint-project activity.

Catch the performances through out the day at the Unity Stage at St Paul’s Carnival, Bristol Saturday July 8.

As part of our in house programme, Trinity Presents we welcome Gardna (Fr 14 Oct) who will be joining forces legendary reggae and punk veteran Don Letts.

Trinity's history has long been part of the cultural crossover of punk and reggae scenes which emerged in the late 1970s. Letts was instrumental in introducing reggae and dub sounds to the punk scene at the time. Given this rich history that we both share, we wanted to reflect on some of the key moments in Don Letts career.

• Don Letts was deeply inspired by the roots reggae from his parents' homeland in Jamaica, in particular the anti-establishment message of Bob Marley. After seeing Marley play the Odeon in Hammersmith in 1976, Letts snuck into Marley's hotel room and spent the night talking and befriending him.

"By 1977, the white teenage youths in London were looking for a new soundtrack and punk rock exploded on the scene. Problem was, this was so early in the scene, there were no punk records to play. So I'm spinning what I like, heavy dub reggae, and the punks were loving it. They dug the whole anti-establishment rebel vibe" - Don Letts

• During the 1970s, Don Letts rose to prominence as a resident DJ of The Roxy, a nightclub in London's Covent Garden. While The Roxy was known for being a hub for the punk scene that was growing in popularity at the time, Letts' sets at the venue featured mostly dub and reggae records.

• Letts recognised the natural similarities between punk and reggae, particularly in their shared, anti-establishment message, creating a crossover between the two cultures. Bands like The Clash were one of the first groups to incorporate elements of reggae music into their sound, seen most clearly through their cover of Junior Murvin's 1976 classic 'Police and Thieves'.

• Developing close relationships with punk bands such as Sex Pistols and The Clash led Letts onto creating films based around the punk scene at the time. Letts became the unofficial documenter of the scene, creating 'The Punk Rock Movie', mostly compiled from Super 8mm footage shot of live performances at The Roxy.

• Since then, Letts has gone on to direct over 300 music videos for a range of artists including Bob Marley, The Psychedelic Furs, Elvis Costello and long-time collaborators The Clash.

• Don Letts' life story was recently told in a documentary 'Rebel Dread', released earlier in 2022, featuring extensive footage from Lett's personal archive of videos.

Letts has continued to DJ throughout his career, and has been a regular feature on lineups across Bristol and the West. Don Letts will join Gardna at Trinity on 14 Oct for Trinity Presents: Gardna + Friends. Make sure to head down to catch this legend of the UK music scene (and his extensive vinyl collection) in action. Click here to get your tickets.

About Trinity Presents:

Gardna + Friends is part of Trinity Presents - our in-house programme of music, bringing world-class artists and emerging talent to inner-city audiences.

FORWARD’s ‘Musicians Unite to End Female Genital Mutilation’ presents:

Dobet Gnahoré

FORWARD presents ‘Musicians Unite to End female genital mutilation (FGM)’ an evening with Grammy award winner and Radio 3 World Music Award nominee Dobet Gnahore.

Dobet is a singer, dancer and percussionist from the Ivory Coast and sings in seven African languages. In 2003 she released her first album entitled “Ano Neko“, then "Na Afriki" (2007), "Djekpa La You" (2010) and Na Drê (2014). She has toured internationally sharing stages with the likes of Angelique Kidjo, Habib Koité and many more. Her incredible band bring ranges from Congolese rumba to Ziglibito from Ivory Coast carried along with jazz-like sounds. Dobet’s powerful voice, intensely captivating stage presence and high energy dance routines all promise the audience an inspired, energetic and beautiful performance.

Special guests include Vanessa Kisuule a spoken word artist and master kora player (21 string West African harp) Mamadou (Modou) N’Diaye Cissokho.

Review: “Dobet Gnahore makes everything move” Chicago Tribune

Tickets: £12 advance, £15 on door

Party For The People & Bristol Ticket SHop

Suitable for all ages (under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult).

This event is brought to you by FORWARD the leading organisation working for over 30 years on harmful practices that affect the health, dignity and wellbeing of African girls and women.

www.forwarduk.org.uk Twitter: @FORWARDUK

FR3 Spirit presents Sublime Music

the Magnificent...

DJ Jazzy Jeff

plus:

Elite Force

Meeko Da Music

FR3 Spirit Messy

'Caution: excessive sound levels' - earplugs are available at the bar for 50p

Doors: 19:00

Last entry: 21:00

Curfew: 23:00

Please note this is a standing event, accessible seating is available. To reserve a limited seating spot and/or arrange a companion ticket, please contact info@trinitybristol.org.uk

Last entry: 2 hours before curfew

Venue levy: Trinity has introduced a £1 Restoration Levy on every event ticket sold. This income will be used to create a dedicated fund for critical building works that will protect and maintain the Trinity Centre building and grounds.

Bristol Drum & Bass Events presents:

We are very proud to welcome to back Dispatch Recordingsto Bristol and for our first time we are hosting the event at the mighty Trinity Centre.

Lineup:

Zero T - Album Launch
Amoss - Album Launch 
Nymfo
Xtrah
Kid Drama
Kyrist

Hosts:

Codebreaker / Fokus / Remidy

Friday 24th - 10pm-5am

Saturday 25th - 10pm-5am

Tickets available from 10th July @ 11am

Line up TBA

Mala / Pinch / Commodo / Kaiju / Kahn / Gantz / Compa

Plus this event will be hosted by SunOf Selah

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On sale Thursday 5th February!