Small venue. Big personality.
Cosies is an intimate electronic music venue in the heart of St Pauls, Bristol, dedicated to showcasing grassroots talent and supporting independent music. From reggae and dubstep to drum & bass, grime, techno and hip-hop, Cosies celebrates the diverse sounds that have helped shape Bristol’s internationally recognised music scene.
For over 36 years, Cosies has played an important role in the city’s musical heritage, hosting DJs four nights a week and providing a platform for both emerging talent and established artists. Many internationally acclaimed DJs have taken their first steps behind the decks at Cosies, helping to make the venue a much-loved part of the Bristol Sound.
More than just a music venue.
Part of Bristol. Part of the community.
Welcoming around 20,000 visitors each year, our intimate 100-capacity venue offers an affordable and accessible space for aspiring DJs, producers and promoters. By keeping venue hire costs exceptionally low, we give grassroots artists the opportunity to perform, experiment with new sounds and connect directly with their audiences.
More than just a music venue, Cosies is a longstanding cultural institution and a meeting place for Bristol’s creative community. It’s somewhere musicians, promoters and music lovers come together to share ideas, build relationships and develop new projects, from collaborations and compilations to dubplates and independent releases.
Our roots in St Pauls are particularly important to us. We proudly celebrate the area’s rich Black musical heritage through a variety of regular club nights, most notably our legendary Reggae Sunday. Held every Sunday and run by longstanding local dub sound-system owners, this much-loved event brings together generations of Bristol’s Black Caribbean community and music lovers from across the city.
Cosies has always been about more than the music. It’s about community, creativity and giving people a place to belong. After more than three decades, those values remain at the heart of everything we do.
WHAT'S ON“Cosies has been a foundation of Bristol arts and culture for decades, I myself as a young black male that has been fortunate enough to be an active member within the cities music and arts, has been able to grow my craft from a novice to a professional level with the help of venues like Cosies. From my uncles’ generation of artists and collectives like The Wild Bunch, Massive Attack, Smith & Mighty, Roni Size to current successful Bristol artists like Joker, Kahn & Neek, My Nu Leng, Dubkasum, Peverlist and more than I can list, all have at some point benefited from Cosies influence on Bristol culture. Culturally Cosies is still one of the last few places in the city that facilitates a space for new scenes and movements”
“Bristol has slowly become a more student-focused city with clubs and venues closing left right and centre. The venues that are left, are large to supersize and don’t invest in underground or grass roots. Additionally, the effect gentrification is having on the local community is stripping them of landmarks with a history that the city has been proud to promote to the influx of new residents. Whenever anyone mentions venues in the city worth visiting, Cosies has been one of a select few that people from all ages, gender, creed, and background would recommend”
“I’ve seen artists from all over the world showcasing many styles of music from DJs from Palestine to America. For Bristol not to have Cosies, the city will would only be left with gentrified venues that cater to a demographic that has minimal care for the cities music foundations or the locals, a music culture that has contributed towards making Bristol a well-known city worldwide would lose one of its last places that helps nurture such things”
