The Last Poets, who are considered the birthplace of rap (Chuck D), return with their fist album in 20 years, ‘Understand What Black is’.

Born in the wake of the civil rights movement, Harlem’s Last Poets are influential spoken word artists, poets and commentators who fuse politically outspoken lyrics with inventive percussion.

Their 1970 album is considered the first hip hop album of all time.Produced by Ben Lamdin (Nostaglia 77) and Brighton legend Prince Fatty, whose speciality is traditional reggae and dub, ‘Understand What Black Is’ is a ten-track album which speaks of a revolutionary struggle defined by both race and identity, that has never sounded more relevant.

Tickets £15 +BF

Having taken their time to craft, and with their new, self-titled, fourth album on the way, The Hunna are open, raw, rocking hard, and saying it how it is. Their musical angst is seething with colossal riffs, irresistible melodies, and memorable lyrics. The group have an insanely devoted fanbase guaranteed to turn every gig and festival appearance into an unmissable event.

Tickets on sale: Fri 5 Aug, 9am

Please note, this is a standing show

Taking the band's blazing, urgent and infectious sound, 'Sons' flits between blues-heavy rock, run through with Mayfield-esque vocals to James Brown style funk and soul and, and takes it to dizzying new heights.

DJ: 7:30pm-8pm

Open mic 8pm - 9pm

DJ: 9pm - 9:30pm

Fantasy Orchestra - 9:30pm -11pm

DJ 11-1am

Two years after he left us celebrate all that is weird, wonderful and Bowie with Bristol's own 60 piece Fantasy Orchestra!

Bowie fashion; costumes, lights, extravagance will abound aplenty. The Orchestra, with a full choir, in full regalia, will be bringing to life a multitude of Bowie classics and lesser known gems.

Come dressed as your favourite Bowie and bring the spirit of the many incarnations of DB!

For those musically inclined, we'll be starting the proceedings with a David Bowie open mic session. People from all musical walks encouraged! Please get in touch with chef d'orch, Jesse, at bowie@fantasyorchestra.org for more information and if you would like to take part.

The Dualers are a 9-piece Jamaican Rhythm & Blues band from South- East London. They first hit the headlines when the single ‘Kiss on the Lips’ stormed in to the UK top 30 despite no industry or professional backing, the follow up single Truly Madly Deeply charted at number 23 & featured in Hollywood blockbuster Fools Gold. They progressed to playing alongside some of the finest names in Ska and Reggae including The Skatalites, Toots and The Maytals, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff, UB40 and Madness. With a number of album releases, several top 40 chart singles, a record breaking 10 sell out shows at indigo at the 02 and an ever increasing large worldwide fan base behind them their success has continued. Now heralded as Britain’s finest Ska & Reggae band The Dualers continue to play to sell-out crowds all over the UK, Europe & Asia.

Q Magazine – “The Dualers soulful harmonising has admirable echoes of Bob Marley & Sam Cooke”

The Independent – “These local superstars are inching towardsfame”

Mark Lamarr – “If only all bands were like The Dualers the world wouldbe a better place”

Set times:
Doors 7:00
The Naverones 8:10 - 8:50
The Dualers: 9:20 - 10:50
Curfew: 11:00

More TBA

However, if Suggs was to bump into Ian Dury, Damon Albarn and Ray Davies and embark on a dance craze through Punk, Ska, Two Tone and Brit pop you'd have The Communicators!

The Comms (as they were dubbed by this ever-growing faithful following) borrow shamelessly from artists like Madness, The Kinks, Small Faces, The Specials, Blur and The Blockheads without losing their own identity.

The blend of harmonious, brass drenched SKA tunes is a mix of Madness esc popism with  crafted lyrics that Dury himself would be happy to have penned.

It’s unmistakably British yet accessible to the US, playful, obvious where it needs to be yet unafraid of going into unexpected places when the mood takes em!

The band released their debut studio album, Script of the Bridge in 1983.

Support: The Veldt

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.

THE BUG W/ MOOR MOTHER
ADRIAN SHERWOOD (LIVE)
OSSIA (LIVE) - Young Echo
O$VMV$M - Young Echo
SUNUN - Young Echo
BRISTOL DUB CLUB DJs

Trailblazing sonic dub explorer THE BUG teams up with incandescent experimental artist MOOR MOTHER for a night of rib rattling beats from the leftfield.

Expect aggression and intensity for an unparalleled night of dark deep bass. Featuring a lineup including very special guests, the pioneering UK dub giant ADRIAN SHERWOOD (LIVE) as well as cuts from the new UK wave, with a selection of Bristol's very own forward thinking YOUNG ECHO collective: OSSIA (LIVE), O$VMV$M and SUNUN.

As if that wasn't enough we've got BRISTOL DUB CLUB DJs keeping things super low frequency from the off.

Advanced booking highly recommended.

‘Let the Cards Fall’ is the new album from Manchester’s The Breath. Underscoring the remarkable connection between guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer, lyricist and flautist, Ríoghnach Connolly, their music journeys from lush, beguiling storytelling to uplifting, punch-the-air anthems. 

The follow-up to their 2016 breakthrough album, ‘Carry Your Kin’, ‘Let the Cards Fall’ is a bewitching collection of songs allowed to mature and breathe without losing the widescreen, multi-textured kaleidoscope of sound that marked their debut, while refining their trademark Manchester take on alt-folk. 

For the Breath, it’s all about the song. Connolly writes the only way she knows how; a stream of poetic consciousness giving rise to honest, personal, heartfelt songs as likely to touch on childhood summers and first love as cultural dislocation, post-colonial injustices and grief. But it’s her deeply soulful, utterly engaging, stop-you-in-your-tracks voice – whether delicate and hushed or powerful and gutsy - coupled with Stuart's understated brilliance and their exquisitely crafted songs, that give The Breath such emotional depth.

‘Let The Cards Fall’ is released on 14 Sept 2018 on Real World Records.

Please note this is a standing event

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.

Support from The Clockworks

The Bluetones filled the gap that the Stone Roses left behind, providing graceful but muscular guitar pop with slightly psychedelic overtones. They appeared during the waning days of Brit-pop, which guaranteed them a considerable amount of press coverage that helped their debut album rocket to the top of the charts upon its release in early 1996.

Originally called the Bottlegarden, the Bluetones formed in Hounslow, England in 1994. The group consisted of guitarist Adam Devlin, drummer Eds Chester, vocalist Mark Morriss, and his brother Scott, who played bass. All of the members had previously played in local bands before forming the Bluetones. During 1995, the group released two singles on its Superior Quality Recordings label, "Are You Blue or Are You Blind?" and "Bluetonic," which received positive reviews in the British music weeklies. By the fall of 1995, they were being touted as the next big thing in Brit-pop, since their sound fell halfway between the Stone Roses and Oasis. Early in 1996, the Bluetones released "Slight Return," which shot to number two a month before their debut album, Expecting to Fly, was released. Expecting to Fly was greeted with mixed reviews, but it debuted at number one on the British charts and became a sizable hit.

Despite their British success, the Bluetones had trouble breaking through in America. Furthermore, they were the subject of a quick backlash, as many critics believed the group embodied the conservatism of Brit-pop -- the non-LP single "Marblehead Johnson" was welcomed coolly upon its fall release, and it only dented the charts. During early 1997, the Bluetones began working on their second album, Return to the Last Chance Saloon; Science & Nature followed in mid-2000. A collection of singles, aptly titled The Singles, followed in the spring of 2002, and 2004 brought Luxembourg.

Please note this is a standing gig

A Place To Bury Strangers

The sultry neo-psychedelic sound of the Black Angels came together in spring 2004. Hailing from Austin, Texas, they initially comprised Stephanie Bailey (drums), Christian Bland (guitar), Alex Maas (vocals), Jennifer Raines (organ), and Nathan Ryan (bass), and took their name from a Velvet Underground classic, "The Black Angel's Death Song." The band's self-titled debut EP was released in late 2005. After a string of North American dates in winter 2006, they readied themselves for a performance at the annual South by Southwest Music Conference in March. Their first couple of full-length albums -- April 2006's Passover and April 2008's Directions to See a Ghost -- were both, in the main, recorded at Erik Wofford's Austin, Texas-based Cacophony Recorders, a studio also used by other local and notable indie rock acts such as White Denim and Voxtrot. By the time the second record was issued, Raines had been replaced by multi-instrumentalist Kyle Hunt and the Black Angels were beginning to create a name for themselves on the live circuit among fans of '60s-inspired psych rock. In late 2008, they performed as the backing band for former 13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson on a series of dates across the West Coast of the U.S. Next, in 2010, they recorded a couple of collaborative tracks with Unkle, one of which -- "With You in My Head" -- appeared on the soundtrack to that summer's multi-million-grossing The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. This large-scale exposure led to their third album, September 2010's Phosphene Dream, becoming something of a breakthrough record when it hit the Top 50 of the Billboard chart immediately following its release. Its companion piece, the Phosgene Nightmare EP, arrived in 2011, and in 2012, following Ryan's departure, Rishi Dhir of Elephant Stone became an auxiliary bandmember, filling in on guitar and occasionally bolstering their live sound with sitar. Released in 2013, Indigo Meadow was produced and mixed by Grammy-nominated fellow Texan John Congleton, and that release was soon followed by its own companion EP, April 2014's Clear Lake Forest. Following a four-year gap, the band finally released its fifth long-player in 2017. Death Song was the Black Angels' heaviest to date, having been recorded during the turbulent U.S. election process.

Their brand of feel-good funk and hyped-up hip-hop has seen them clock up A List status and numerous 'Album of The Day’ gongs at BBC 6 Music, and soundtrack a whole host of international ad campaigns. Year in, year out, they’ve sharpened their skills in the studio, dropping one dynamite LP after another. 2024 sees them cut the ribbon on their seventh all-star album Breakthrough. Full to the brim with party-starting heat, the record showcases their never-ending knack for turning out soul-sampling bangers, and deep infectious grooves. Due to popular demand, they’ll be assembling their crack team of musical collaborators once more, and hitting the road with a high-octane live show to bring their music to life.  Joining them on stage, as always, is LA rap legend, Andy Cooper The mighty pipes of soul sensation, Marietta Smith, and the blazing horns of sax supremo, James Morton. 
Together, they’ve earned a rep for their dynamite crowd-rocking. And, with this new material in the bag, it looks like they’ll be raising the roof even higher this year.

Doors: 7pm

7.30pm: Sam Tweaks

8.45pm: The Allergies

11pm: 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.