The List

Trinity Community Arts

Community arts and education centre housed in a gorgeous Gothic grade II listed building and former church (built in 1829). Emphasising a diverse, inclusive arts programme with touring acts, film screenings, theatre, classes, workshops and more. Stating: 'Our mission is to empower communities through arts ensuring everyone has the opportunity to access, be part of and shape arts and culture in Bristol.' 20 minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads train station, local routes 48, 49 as well as the night bus N2 stop on Stapleton Road.

What's On @ Trinity Community Arts

Jalen N'gonda

Jalen N'gonda

16 Oct 2025 - 23 Oct 2025

Jalen N'gonda is one of the most captivating performers on today’s soul scene. His voice, equal parts raw feeling and elegance, exudes confidence and charm. Most recently, Jalen thrilled audiences and garnered rave reviews with his powerful solo performance in support of Thee Sacred Souls’ US tour. Now with a pair of widely revered singles under his belt at his new home, Daptone Records, Jalen prepares for the release of his debut LP, Come Around and Love Me. 
Ben Ottewell

Ben Ottewell

1 May 2025 - 20 Jul 2025

As a singer and lead guitarist in rock band Gomez, Ben Ottewell is well known for his unmistakable voice and talent for blistering and inspired guitar solos. Ottewell released his first solo album Shapes & Shadows (ATO) in 2011, featuring such beautiful acoustic tunes as 'Blackbird', 'Shapes and Shadows' and 'Take This Beach', which appeared on FX’s Sons of Anarchy. Since then, Ottewell has been pleasing audiences with a series of successful solo tours across the UK, US and Australia.
The Skids

The Skids

24 May 2025 - 25 Apr 2026

The Skids formed in 1977 in their home town of Dunfermline, Scotland by Richard Jobson, Stuart Adamson, Bill Simpson & Tom Kellichan. After releasing an independent single the band were played by John Peel, supported The Clash in concert and then were signed to Virgin Records in 1978. Their first singles were ‘Sweet Surburbia’, ‘The Saints are Coming’ and ‘Into the Valley’ - the latter reaching the UK Top Ten in early 1979. Their seminal debut album ‘Scared to Dance’; came out in 1979 and was quickly followed by two chart singles – ‘Masquerade’ and ‘Working for the Yankee Dollar’. Both singles were taken from the Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe) produced second album ‘Days in Europa’. The album also featured new member Rusty Egan of Rich Kids & Visage fame after the departure of Tom Kellichan. The band released two more albums ‘The Absolute Game’ (1980) and ‘Joy’ (1981) before splitting. Stuart Adamson went on to have worldwide success with his new band Big Country. The Skids were at the heart of the punk scene in Scotland and took their music to London where they were signed by Virgin records. They made 4 albums and had numerous hit singles including Into the Valley, The Saints are Coming, Masquerade and Working for the Yankee Dollar. The most recent Skids lineup includes Richard Jobson, Martin Metcalfe and Fin Wilson (Goodbye Mr Mackenzie), Nick Hernandez and Connor Whyte.
Mercury Rev

Mercury Rev

13 Aug 2025 - 29 Aug 2025

Mercury Rev celebrates with a very special acoustic and intimate performance. An intimate, acoustic evening featuring many of the stories and songs surrounding the Mercury Rev's heart-breaking 1998 classic 'Deserter's Songs'. Performed in the fragile 'whisper and strum' way they were originally written, this promises to be an extraordinary glimpse into the forces that nearly destroyed a band and the strange events leading toward a most unexpected return.
The Allergies

The Allergies

3 Jul 2025 - 5 Jul 2025

After breaking onto the scene with a Mixmag ‘Tune of the Month’, The Allergies (DJ Moneyshot and Rackabeat) continued in their mission to bring re-fuelled funk and feel good hip-hop to the masses. The three LPs that followed, on Brighton’s Jalapeno Records, were sonic steps forward for the pair, winning them die-hard fans and BBC 6 Music ‘Album of the Day’ and ‘Album of the Year’ awards along the way - Diplomats of Sound.
Joshua Burnside

Joshua Burnside

22 Jul 2025 - 24 Jul 2025

Northern Irish experimental folk songwriter and producer Joshua Burnside is something of a regional anomaly. With a brooding, powerful sound echoing artists of places afar and time long gone, his enthralling craft defies local comparison in striving towards an aesthetic as much as visual as it is sonic. Balanced with a diverse palette of sounds, Burnside deftly blends alt-folk and elements of the Irish folk song tradition with South American rhythms and Eastern European influences, whilst introducing synthetic and found-sounds, synths loops and crunching beats to create a stormy world that shifts and swirls perspective like a lingering lucid dream.
Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague

12 Nov 2025 - 29 Nov 2025

Bossa Nova = Nouvelle Vague = New Wave. This transliteration was the starting point for Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux’s unique project, which, by appropriating the punk and post-punk cannon and running it through the Bossa Nova filter, reinvented the cover band genre, revealing new and brilliant talents along the way: Camille, Phoebe Killdeer, Nadeah, Mélanie Pain, and Liset Alea. The group’s first two albums, Nouvelle Vague (2004) and Bande A Part (2006) defined their unique sound with Bossa versions of New Wave Classics. Their third album NV3 (2009) featured collaborations with Depeche Mode's Martin Gore, Ian McCullouch from Echo and the Bunnymen, Terry Hall from The Specials, Barry Adamson, The Saints & Minimal Compact.
Amber Run

Amber Run

2 May 2025 - 10 May 2025

British combo Amber Run deliver lush, cinematic alt-pop with a moody and introspective tone. Signing with RCA a year after their formation, a series of EPs paved the way for their dramatic 2015 debut, 5AM. A modest U.K. chart success, its follow-up, For a Moment, I Was Lost, fared similarly in 2017, after which the group continued to explore new sounds with another EP and several singles.
The Devil Makes Three

The Devil Makes Three

18 Jun 2025 - 28 Jun 2025

The Devil Makes Three is an American band. They formed and remain based in Santa Cruz, California. They play a brand of acoustic music known to some as folk punk. It encompasses a blend of bluegrass, old time music, country, folk, blues, ragtime, and rockabilly. The group''s members are guitarist Pete Bernhard, upright bassist Lucia Turino, and guitarist and tenor banjo player Cooper McBean.
West End Calling

West End Calling

3 May 2025 - 5 May 2025

Young performers from all over the country perform in our live showcases, aiming for a spot in the Grand Final in London’s West End! Judged by a panel of West End Performers, each contestant will perform a song and receive feedback on how to improve and build on their performance.
Deafheaven

Deafheaven

16 Jun 2025 - 17 Jun 2025

As 2012 came to a close, George Clarke and Kerry McCoy were living off of food stamps in a small apartment in the Mission District of San Francisco with six other roommates. They slept in closets and partitioned corners, licking their wounds after a year of touring with their band Deafheaven. While their debut album Roads To Judah was met with high praise, there wasn't a large audience for their signature hybrid of black metal, shoegaze, and post-rock. Consequently, the band amassed a mountain of debt on the road and lost 3/5ths of their members to the financial security of full-time employment. In the rare moments of solitude within those cramped quarters of the Mission apartment, Clarke and McCoy began piecing together musical fragments that would become their sophomore album Sunbather, an album thematically fixated on the un-punk dream of climbing out of poverty and living among the leisure class. Despite the underground's aversion to such open pining for comfort, stability, and luxury, Sunbather was a massive critical success and an unexpected crossover hit. With their new bandmates Dan Tracy (drums), Stephen Lee Clark (bass), and Shiv Mehra (guitar), Deafheaven began selling out clubs and landing high profile festival slots across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. No one could have anticipated a band that drew from equal parts Weakling and My Bloody Valentine ascending to such heights, and that incomprehensibility added to the band's singularity and allure. Two years later, George Clarke and Kerry McCoy were living in their own apartments in LA. They no longer had to worry about where their next meal was coming from, and they could begin working on their new album, New Bermuda, in a proper rehearsal space as a full band. In many ways, it was an ideal scenario, but doubts lingered in the back of Clarke's mind. Sunbather yearned for something better. New Bermuda focuses on the idea of false promise, achieving something and wondering if it's what you really wanted in the first place. Moving to LA, living with the person you love, meeting new peopleyou're inexplicably let down by the situation, or let down by your own perception of it because you thought it was everything you wanted, but yet you still feel displaced. McCoy shares that sentiment: Sunbather sounds like people who have nothing but are satisfied with life. There's an uplifting quality to it. But New Bermuda is a very tense record. That tension can immediately be felt in the opening charge of Brought To The Water, where McCoy excises the triumphant melodicism that typified Sunbather for bleak chord changes set against Clarke's howled first line: where has my passion gone? McCoy cites death metal demigods Dissection and Morbid Angel, the blackened death pioneers Behemoth, and Cliff Burton-era Metallica as influences on the new album. Within the ten-minute span of Brought To The Water, you can hear the ferocity, discord, and dexterity of those heavier predilections, but you can also hear the electrified melancholy of post-hardcore and post-rock. As New Bermuda progresses, Deafheaven travels further outside of their comfort zone, feasting on other niches of underground metal and offsetting the blunt force of their feral rage with more complex and nuanced beauty. On Luna, the band storms out of the gate with a snarling thrash riff, barrels through their trademark barrage of decimating drums and corrosive guitars, and seamlessly drops down into a morose clean-picked breakdown that would make Johnny Marr proud. A similar sophisticated and subdued pop element kicks off Baby Blue, before the band abruptly shifts into an amalgam of NWOBHM's anthemic urgency and thrash metal's racing chugs. There's a brief comedown where the band veers into the musique concrete soundscapes and hushed melodrama of early Godspeed You! Black Emperor before Come Back resumes the band's merciless assault of stampeding drums and vitriolic guitar harmonies, only to shift mid-song into the somber territories of 4AD's early catalog. Clarke says that the he came up with the idea of a New Bermuda to describe a new destination in life, a nebulous point of arrival, and an unknown future where things get swallowed up and dragged into darkness. It's a premise most aptly demonstrated on the album closer Gifts For The Earth, where Clarke opens the song with the harrowing lyric I imagine the gracious, benevolent ritual of Death before describing a fatalistic descent to the ocean floor. Despite the morbid theme and tortured vocals, the song is perhaps the biggest musical departure for Deafheaven, with metal instrumentation largely excised in favor of lush, stately indie rock. Given Deafheaven's inverse relationship with real world hardship and creative beauty, it's only fitting that the most musically uplifting song on the album is the track about suicide.
Sarah Blasko

Sarah Blasko

1 Jul 2025 - 5 Jul 2025

Singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko is recognised as one of Australia’s leading music artists, having carved her own path within the industry. She has received numerous accolades for her three platinum-selling works The Overture & the Underscore, What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have and As Day Follows Night, having received 14 ARIA Award nominations, including wins for Best Pop Album and Best Female Artist along with Triple J’s 2009 J Award for Australian Album of The Year. In 2008 Sarah wrote the score for Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Belly

Belly

24 Sept 2025 - 1 Oct 2025

Formed in 1991 by Tanya Donelly (formerly of Throwing Muses and the Breeders) with Tom and Chris Gorman, Belly became known for a blend of spirited guitar rock, countrified dream-pop, and Donelly’s haunting lyrics and voice. The band’s 1993 debut album, Star, was a hit with critics and listeners alike. Belly is a band in the truest sense: the secret to their chemistry lies in the mix of personalities and complementary strengths.
The Bluetones

The Bluetones

9 May 2025 - 12 Dec 2025

A very special acoustic show with Mark Morriss & Adam Devlin of Britpop legends The Bluetones. The band, formed in 1993, had an impressive run of hit singles throughout the late 90's/early 00's, including ’Bluetonic’, ‘Slight Return’, ‘Marblehead Johnson’, ‘Solomon Bites The Worm’, ‘If’ and ‘Keep the Fires Burning’. They scored thirteen Top 40 singles and three Top 10 albums in the UK charts before splitting up in 2011. Join frontman Mark Morriss alongside band mate Adam Devlin as they "Cut Some Rug" on stage together at this very intimate show.
Bill Callahan

Bill Callahan

2 Jul 2025 - 8 Jul 2025

Building on the lo-fi, sparse aesthetic of his early work as Smog toward the lush instrumentation and masterly command of structure (and beautiful production) evidenced on his latest records, Bill Callahan has released consistently excellent albums for two decades. He can safely be spoken of as one of America’s great songwriters. His songs have been covered by Gil Scott Heron, Cat Power and the Flaming Lips, and featured in films such as 'High Fidelity'. Emotive and beautifully arranged, 2009’s “Sometimes I wish we were an Eagle” is a great gateway to Bill. It’s fair to say that the snare sound here is exquisite! Before starting to release music under his own name in 2007, Bill Callahan recorded as Smog. Sample lyric: “My foolish heart had to go diving… diving, diving into the murk”… Support comes from Cath and Phil Tyler Cath & Phil Tyler play Anglo-American folk music using guitar, banjo, voice and fiddle. Cath was a member of the band Cordelia’s Dad in the 1990s when she lived in Massachusetts, USA. Phil, from Newcastle upon Tyne has played in various folk, rock and ceilidh bands for many years. Coming together musically through a shared love of traditional narrative song, full voiced sacred harp singing and sparse mountain banjo, they have performed on stages great and small, from the Royal Opera House in London to the Morden Tower in the old city walls of Newcastle.
Caroline

Caroline

31 May 2025 - 8 Jun 2025

The eight piece London band touch on ‘post-rock, emo, folk, and minimalist classical’, focusing on space: both what can be achieved in negative, and how it can be populated by texture and rhythm.
Stereo MCs

Stereo MCs

27 Nov 2025 - 14 Dec 2025

Stereo MCs formed in mid 80s, inspired by electronic music and early HipHop. They pressed up their first 12 vinyl and started an independent record label called G Street Records which released many UK hip hop artists and signed US acts such as Jungle Brothers.
Låpsley

Låpsley

22 Oct 2025 - 30 Oct 2025

Nominated for the BBC Sound of 2015, fast-emerging singer, songwriter and producer Holly ‘Låpsley’ Fletcher has become one of the most hotly-tipped new UK artists around. Through beautifully crafted songs such as ‘Station’ and ‘Painter (Valentine)’, the young Southport-raised artist has created a unique sonic identity, mixing sparse, minimal electronic production with gorgeous, emotive songwriting.
Lucy Dacus: Acoustic Set (4pm Matinee)
Due to phenomenal demand Rough Trade is very excited to present a second acoustic out-store set with Lucy Dacus at the Trinity, celebrating the release of her fourth solo album 'Forever Is A Feeling' released via Interscope. All CD/LP purchases will be shipped at release from April 3rd 2025 via Second Class Mail. General Admission tickets do NOT come with an album. This is a 16+ event, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/product/lucy-dacus/forever-is-a-feeling-3 Presented by Rough Trade. This is a 16+ event, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
Ozric Tentacles

Ozric Tentacles

2 May 2025 - 13 Dec 2025

One of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK’s festival scene, Ozric Tentacles formed during the solstice at Stonehenge Free Festival 1983 going on to become psychedelic staples at Glastonbury and other festivals. The creative vision of multi-instrumentalist Ed Wynne, the Ozrics’ uniquely trippy soundscapes connect fans of progressive rock, psychedelia and dance music culture.
Nick Mulvey

Nick Mulvey

5 Jun 2025 - 6 Sept 2025

His standout debut album, First Mind, in 2015 was the introduction of an artist who shirked the conventional and side-stepped the expected. It was a record of opposing shades, all leftfield rhythms, and harnessing an exquisitely natural guitarist doing extraordinary things, painting unique colours across a very moreish collection of songs. It was quite peerless, and translated to the stage alongside fine collection of talented players that formed his band. Nick's return with the first fruits of his new album sessions has brought with it his own outlook on a world that can't decide which direction it's going, or quite what to do with itself. We're all hastily trying to find our spot within these times, and Nick is no exception, but if clarity is part-resolved by a call to arms, perhaps it's time to make that call. Unconditional, the first new music from Mulvey in over two years, is a multi-layered, groove-based tune that doesn't stray too far from First Mind, but far enough to sound fresh, unique and exciting.
Somebody's Child

Somebody's Child

14 Oct 2025 - 30 Oct 2025

Starting his musical journey aged five in Paris, Cian Godfrey (aka Somebody’s Child) took to playing the piano in the family apartment. Upon moving back to Ireland, he gained an interest in songwriting, enabling him to tell his own stories. These narratives often reflect upon difficult mental health experiences, as well as the endearing happenings of a youngster growing up in Dublin.
Flyte

Flyte

10 Sept 2025 - 26 Sept 2025

Flyte is a London-based band formed by Will Taylor (vocals, guitar) and Nick Hill (guitar, bass, vocals), who met at secondary school. The band's name comes from Sebastian Flyte, a character in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Flyte's music is known for its literary influences and storytelling, with harmonies reminiscent of The Byrds and The Beatles.
Porridge Radio

Porridge Radio

2 Dec 2025 - 7 Dec 2025

Porridge Radio released their debut studio album Every Bad on Secretly Canadian. The album saw the band propelled from a word-of-mouth gem of Brighton’s DIY scene to one of the country’s most exciting upcoming bands.
Skinny Living Live In Bristol

Skinny Living Live In Bristol

25 Jul 2025 - 25 Jul 2025

Gotobeat is proud to present the first show of it's Bristol Summer Sessions at the Trinity Centre with indie soul band Skinny Living returning to the city on Friday 25th July. Skinny Living’s story is one of struggle, troubling situations and relentless hard graft. It’s also one of synchronicity, chance meetings, and the unflinching belief that their glorious indie soul music will reach the audience it deserves. Their potential is there to see. Echoing Bill Withers, The Isley Brothers and Paolo Nutini, their songs shimmer with a timeless, gentle beauty, exquisite vocal harmonies and a lyrical wisdom that inspires optimism and reflection in equal measure. The bands sound is defined by two acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies delivered by Wakefield natives Will Booth and Danny Hepworth, while the exquisite and ever-so-slightly haunted vocal and lyricism in the midst of it all belongs to front man Ryan Johnston, born in Belfast to a Catholic mother from the Republican area and a Protestant father from the other side of town. Presented by Gotobeat Ltd. This is a 14+ event
Divorce

Divorce

28 Nov 2025 - 13 Dec 2025

Nottingham indie four-piece Divorce are spearheaded by songwriting duo Tiger Cohen-Towell and Felix Mackenzie-Barrow. Initially meeting as teenagers through the city’s close-knit DIY scene, the band – completed by members Adam Peter Smith and Kasper Sandstrøm - came together as Divorce in mid-2021, releasing a slew of genre-defiant singles that quickly caught the attention of tastemakers the world over.
Bodega

Bodega

23 Jul 2025 - 26 Jul 2025

The art-damaged Brooklyn band Bodega want to get people thinking while they boogie, and their debut album, Endless Scroll, spotlights an abrasive dance-punk sound built on shouted vocals, deep thoughts, and jumpy rhythms. While they sanded off some of the rough sonic edges on subsequent releases like 2019's Shiny New Model EP and 2022's album Broken Equipment, they kept the lyrics sharp and the music bouncy.
Dan Whitlam

Dan Whitlam

21 Oct 2025 - 28 Oct 2025

Dan Whitlam has quickly become a one-to-watch with his soulful voice and poignant lyrics. Narrating the lives of a 20-something-year-old through spoken word and rap, he found enormous success with his multi-million-viewed videos on TikTok. Dan’s ability to capture raw emotions and convey them through music has caught the attention of Fred Again.. and Arlo Parks, as well as fashion brand Hermes, who made him their resident poet. With several single releases with Needwant, his unique style and versatility as an artist blending poetry, acting and music creates emotive and captivating performances, earning him a spot on BBC Radio London. Dan Whitlam is quickly becoming one of the most exciting young artists in the UK.
Getdown Services Live At Trinity

Getdown Services Live At Trinity

9 Jan 2026 - 9 Jan 2026

Bristol's prodigal sons - the incredible, inimitable, unstoppable Getdown Services headline the Trinity Centre for their biggest ever Bristol show. Expect a more bombastic show than ever before. Tickets £17 + £1 Venue Levy + booking fees Presented by Breakfast Records. This is an 18+ event

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