Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

FAB & Bath Fringe

It's the night all the FAB art shows open in town - several of them in Walcot Street - and artists like a drink, something to look at, and a dance as much as anyone else does. And here's where they'll be doing it. There will be entertainment and a DJ; when we know more we'll tell you all about it. More info and booking...

Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Films from artists working on this year's Fringe Arts Bath programme, and maybe more.
If the weather's good and we can get the technology working we may show films in the pub garden as well or instead. More info and booking...

Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Entry by donation, £5 suggested
Start time: 19:30

Sam Lindo with

featuring Pip & The Polar Bears & Jacob Spencer

Distinctively different, but complementary in styles, this three-in-one package, has inspired audiences across the country with their infectiously fun and joyful performance as well curating their own ‘Homegrown’ festival at Wick Court, just outside Bath. They share justice related themes in their music, although at the same time embody a huge diversity of sound. More info and booking...

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

Joel Savoy, Jesse Lége and

"Two Cajuns and an old time stringband walk into a bar…”
Spanning generations from across the nation the Cajun Country Revival is a veritable supergroup of American roots musicians. Comprised of Cajun musicians Jesse Lége and Joel Savoy - Son of Cajun music royalty Marc and Ann and the founder of the Louisiana label Valcour Records - and two members of Portland Oregon’s Foghorn Stringband, this group presents a music that seems to embody all of the things that make life wonderful and together they’ve delighted audiences around the world celebrating rather than “performing" the music that brought them together: Cajun music and early Country music. More info and booking...

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

A trio of like-minded musicians - Nick Smart piano, Jesse Barrett drums and tabla, and Jordan Smart saxophones - who have carved out a growing following both here and abroad for their hypnotic fusion of jazz, folk and electronica: they have been compared to both Portico Quartet and GoGo Penguin (who the group have toured with). More info and booking...

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

One of the most successful and consistent bands in the city, the original Afro-Celtic fusion, played with considerable verve as well as authenticity: freewheeling and infectious dance rhythm. Full band playing a warmup to some European dates. More info and booking...

Main House

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Fake Escape Presents a 20:20 Vision Theatre Experience

Gluttony. Envy. Pride. Greed. Sloth. Lust. Wrath.

For thousands of years, these seven simple words have served to describe the most extreme elements of the human condition. We have always been fallible since the dawn of man, and we continue to possess a strange fascination with the more questionable sides of our nature. This collection of stories from around the world shines a contemporary light on behaviour often best left in the dark. More info and booking...

Main House

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Fake Escape Presents a 20:20 Vision Theatre Experience

Gluttony. Envy. Pride. Greed. Sloth. Lust. Wrath.

For thousands of years, these seven simple words have served to describe the most extreme elements of the human condition. We have always been fallible since the dawn of man, and we continue to possess a strange fascination with the more questionable sides of our nature. This collection of stories from around the world shines a contemporary light on behaviour often best left in the dark. More info and booking...

Main House

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Fake Escape Presents a 20:20 Vision Theatre Experience

Gluttony. Envy. Pride. Greed. Sloth. Lust. Wrath.

For thousands of years, these seven simple words have served to describe the most extreme elements of the human condition. We have always been fallible since the dawn of man, and we continue to possess a strange fascination with the more questionable sides of our nature. This collection of stories from around the world shines a contemporary light on behaviour often best left in the dark. More info and booking...

Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: £6; £5 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:45

Lucy Harrington in

Get ready to embark on the journey of a lifetime direct to the epicentre of awesome, in this outlandish, riotous, improvised, character show. If you think you don’t want that, trust Deirdre when she tells you ‘you sure as hell need it’. The louder you scream the faster we go. More info and booking...

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

How come one of Bath's most popular bands has never played The Bell?
Back in the day they were playing literally everywhere else so we left them to it. Nowadays they don't do so much, so a triumphal return to the city where they began seemed a great idea.
Blues & boogie-woogie with a fine pianist and assortment of vocalists. More info and booking...

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Kevin Figes Sextet More info and booking...

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Tuesday Choice

John Fairhurst truly epitomises the modern day wandering blues man. Stories of hunger, listlessness, roaming and reckless abandon are just a prelude to John’s amazing story.
The Guardian described his 2008 debut album Joys of Spring as “Truly exquisite” More info and booking...

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Innovative Bristol electric funk band recently returned to the live businss after a long lay-off in other bands, new serious recording out very soon, in fact this should be the launch.
Joe Wilkins, Evan Newman, Pedro Alves, Marcel Osborne and Edward Gallimore. all familiar faces from some of the best rhythm-inclined outfits in the city. More info and booking...

Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Entry by donation
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:00

and Friends

The Duckworths have been cooking up a new album, and Lawrie's been off on the road in the States getting into the kind of trouble that will write the next one and make his legend one day: this is their first serious live showing in a while, and will feature side-performances from various bandmates & associates. Ray Bradbury stories set to alternate-reality lullabies. More info and booking...

Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Free
Start time: 16:00

The Oxymoron

The Oxymoron on line alternative comedy club live!

The Oxymoron on line alternative comedy club, found as a group on Facebook. Emerges from cyberspace to present a live comedy show, featuring members of the club and guests.
This show will be streamed live via The Bell,Bath UK. Donation on the door
The word on the street (or, rather, the pub garden) is that there are still some slots but they're filling up fast! More info and booking...

Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Free
Start time: 15:30

Walcot History Event

Films & talk (maybe) touching on history of the alternatve arts & related social movements, in Walcot in particular.
Starting at 3.30 with a selection from the archives:
Nasher's Last Journey (film of the procession etc.)
Duck Man
BEDLAM 2013-2016 selection
Hat and Feather Open Stage
Haven't you got homes to got to? (Ever-popular account of the Last day in the Hat & Feather)

Then on to films from other sources:
5.30 'Off the Cut' 20 minutes from in-the-know local film-maker about life on the Kennet & Avon Canal
6pm 'Everybody's Wally' - 60min film about the life of Wally Hope who was a prime mover in the founding of Stonehenge Free Festival and other totemic /70s events (that Bath people also featured at in a big way).
More items to be announced. More info and booking...

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 20:30

with ShakShak

We end the festival with Walcot favourites and all-round festival goodtimes guaranteed collective ShakShak. Eternal spring in your step ska groove referencing Afro, Calypso and Celtic flavours from a familiar bunch of faces who are themselves embodiments of Walcot history and connectedness. More info and booking...

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Walcot History Event

Films & talk (maybe) touching on history of the alternatve arts & related social movements, in Walcot in particular.
Starting at 3.30 with a selection from the archives:
Nasher's Last Journey (film of the procession etc.)
Duck Man
BEDLAM 2013-2016 selection
Hat and Feather Open Stage
Haven't you got homes to got to? (Ever-popular account of the Last day in the Hat & Feather)

Then on to films from other sources:
5.30 'Off the Cut' 20 minutes from in-the-know local film-maker about life on the Kennet & Avon Canal
6pm 'Everybody's Wally' - 60min film about the life of Wally Hope who was a prime mover in the founding of Stonehenge Free Festival and other totemic /70s events (that Bath people also featured at in a big way).
More items to be announced.

Extra info: films to be projected in the garden later (minimal soundtrack)

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

and band

WE ARE SORRY BUT THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED
Already featuring in that as-yet unwritten Walcot musical history book for creating Slow Twitch Fibres with a post-Korgi Andy Davis, Pete is something of a legendary musos’ muso over in Bristol, with everything from hardcore free jazz to soundtracks to idiosyncratic and witty songwriting to his credit. We think it’s the latter that will characterise today’s performance: band also featuring Andy, Eddie John and Valere Speranza. More info and booking...

Main House

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

Bath Music super-bill

Three of the most creative minds in town...

Replacing the cancelled Pete Brandt show (to be rescheduled) we have a triple bill - no less - of contemporary Bath creativity.
Two projects involve musician/novelist/academic Emma Hooper - one performed by her partner Charlie - and the third head to this trinity is her fomer colleague from The Cedar, Neil Gay, one of the most under-rated but creative musical minds in the city for some years now. More info and booking...