The leading South-West music venue announces a top notch season of live music and club events

HALF MOON RUN
14 SEPT
Folk music for the modern dark age, art rock for harmony-pop enthusiasts, rustic indie anthems for neoclassical heads—but no matter what you call it, the physical and emotional responses among listeners is always the same: heartbeats accelerate, goosebumps rise, eye sockets well up.

HAK BAKER
28 SEPT
A one-man Greek chorus and cackling conduit, leading the listener through an unsettling, exhilarating, and unexpectedly life-affirming apocalyptic fantasia.

SLAUGHTER BEACH, DOG
1 OCT
Slaughter Beach, Dog is an indie rock/folk band, the brainchild of Philadelphia-based musician Jake Ewald – best known as one quarter of Modern Baseball.

LAUREN SPENCER SMITH
7 OCT
Lauren Spencer Smith, the generational talent and breakthrough act of 2022, is set to have a landmark 2023. The 19-year-old singer-songwriter from Vancouver Island, Canada, announces a date with Bristol this October.

SQUID
13 AND 14 OCT
Teeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid’s second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self-made folklore.

CMAT
18 NOV
Everyone’s favourite global pop star ™ CMAT announces her second album with the catchy, carefree strut of Have Fun!, a sage-burning, fiddle-toting summer smash that’s as much about green parakeets fluttering around London as it is about firmly shutting the door on an era-defining relationship.

LOTTERY WINNERS
19 NOV
Mix the charisma of front man Thom Rylance, witty as he is electric, with the cool, sultry bass of Katie Lloyd, the pounding powerhouse of Joe Singleton on drums and Rob Lally’s slinkymelodies and you have something unmissable. Unignorable.

BOB VYLAN
21 NOV
Kerrang! and MOBO award-winning duo, BOB VYLAN, headline SWX this November. The London two-piece are unique. One vocalist and one drummer. One being a vital and focal mouthpiece, the other a rhythm maker and keeper.

DJANGO DJANGO
10 DEC
The fifth full-length studio album from the UK four-piece was conceptualised by Django Django co founder and powerhouse Dave Maclean, buzzing on ufology as “a way to go beyond”, to bring new voices, new rhythms, new experimentation into play, and effectively to deconstruct the band’s identity.