Be Vocal is a vocal coaching studio and small recording facility in Bristol's Stokes Croft, the city's counter-cultural creative quarter. Run by BexX (Ben WJ Woodward), an authorised Complete Vocal Technique teacher with two decades of voice work behind them, it offers individual and group singing lessons for beginners through professionals, speech coaching, songwriting sessions and custom video lessons, with free weekly practice-room time for enrolled singers. The studio has worked with singers.....

Housed in a former 1990s document storage warehouse in Bristol's St Jude's, DOCUMENT is a sprawling creative complex and events venue created by the team behind the city's Motion and Marble Factory clubs. Continuing their focus on building underground communities in former industrial spaces, they took on the empty building in 2019 and gradually filled it with artists, businesses and creatives before launching it as a public events space in 2023. The result is a multi-function site unlike anythin.....

Opened in August 2012 by the team behind the long-running Croft, the Exchange is a grassroots music venue on Old Market Street, just east of Bristol city centre. From the outset it set out to be a home for independent and underground music, pairing a main live room with a smaller basement space for club nights and emerging acts. Across its two stages the venue has hosted an extraordinary range of artists on their way up, including The 1975, Haim, George Ezra, Idles, Four Tet and Sleaford Mods, .....

In 2019 a music venue on Bristol's Old Market Street became the first in the United Kingdom to be owned by its own community, when several hundred supporters bought shares to take the Exchange into collective ownership. The campaign raised the funds needed to secure the building and protect a grassroots stage that had been operating since 2012. Founded by the people behind the Croft, the venue is built around two performance spaces, a main room holding around two hundred and fifty and an intima.....

One of a small family of independent Bristol cafe bars, Grounded Fishponds occupies a large, welcoming space on the busy Fishponds Road in the east of the city. Designed to feel like a relaxed living room, it serves as a coffee shop by day and a community-minded bar and casual eatery by evening, drawing a mix of families, dog walkers, students and locals throughout the day. The kitchen turns out artisan pizzas, including well-regarded vegan options, alongside breakfasts, lunches and hearty meal.....

Lakota is a long-running nightclub off Stokes Croft in Bristol, housed in the only surviving building of the historic Stokes Croft Brewery and considered a local landmark within the Stokes Croft Conservation Area. Opened in June 1992 during the heyday of the rave scene, it grew into one of the most famous clubs in the country outside London and helped establish Bristol as a centre of UK club culture. Over three decades the venue has hosted a roll-call of superstar DJs -- Carl Cox, Sasha, John D.....

Created by the team behind Glastonbury Festival's legendary Shangri-La, Lost Horizon HQ is a music and events venue in the Bedminster area of south Bristol. Bringing the imaginative, immersive spirit of one of the festival world's most celebrated late-night areas into a permanent home, it combines a club and live music space with a community-minded ethos, blending world-class production with a commitment to sustainability and social purpose. The venue grew out of the creative collective respons.....

A relaxed all-day cafe-bar in the Redfield neighbourhood of east Bristol, Rubino Lounge is part of the Loungers chain that began in the city's Bedminster in 2002 before expanding nationwide. Occupying a transformed former shop on the corner of Church Road, it offers the brand's signature blend of eclectic, homely decor, all-day dining and a strong community focus. Open from breakfast through to late every day, the lounge serves a varied menu spanning brunch, lunch, dinner and drinks, with dedic.....

Sawmills is an event space in Bristol used for a variety of gatherings, club nights and private functions. Forming part of the city's well-known appetite for independent, warehouse-style venues, it provides a flexible setting that can be adapted to suit different events, from music nights and parties to hire for organised functions, reflecting Bristol's strong tradition of repurposed and characterful spaces. The venue fits within a wider Bristol scene that has long embraced industrial and uncon.....

Tucked away at the top of Cheltenham Road in Bishopston, the Bootlegger Bristol is an independent, family-run cocktail bar that puts a modern twist on the classic speakeasy. Blending 1920s charm with contemporary flair, the cosy hideaway transports visitors to a Prohibition-era establishment of exposed brick, vintage light shades and intriguing, low-lit corners. The drinks are the main event, with a menu of more than ninety cocktails ranging from century-old favourites to inventive modern creat.....