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Last updated: October 8th, 2002 - 279 artistes/bands and counting!
Bands listed in white have no web sites to my knowledge. Please let me know if you know better!

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• Act of Kindness
• Actual Size
• Airbus
• Airborn
• AKO
• Alpha
• Ambling Band
• Amebix
• Mark Anderson
• Apache Dropout
• Apocalypse
• Dan Ashton
• Autonomicus
• Back to Back
• Bad Blood - punk rock sounds
• Beatnik Filmstars
• Ben Blackmore
• Big Buzzard Boogie Band
• Big Joan - post-punk meets breakbeat
• Acker Bilk - jazzman from Pensford
• Blackfire - Dirty, gothic, punk, gutsy thrash
• Black Roots
• The Blue Aeroplanes
• Blues Cruise
• Blues Cowboys
• Blurt! - Wild Jazz impro
• Braai-Flace
• Bravados
• Braxton Hicks
• Breakbeat Era
• Brilliant Corners - precursors of Spaceways and Experimental Pop Band
• Bristol School of Samba
• BUD
• Steve Bush
• Capoeira Twins
• Carmina
• Johnny Carr and the Cadillacs - Long running rock 'n' rollers
• The Chain Gang
• Chaos UK - Anarcho-punk
• Chantilly Lace
• Chorcazade
• Choo Choo Train
• Gary Clail - Legendary
• Colonel Kilgore's Vietnamese Formation Surf Team - Unforgettable
• Colours and Sounds - Bristol based music and art collective
• Coltraines
• Chikinki - Low-fi experimental pop
• The Clive and Kicking Boogie Woogie Blues Band
• Como
• Russ Conway - Legendary keyboard star of the '50's
• The Cortinas
• Countermine
• Crashland
• Crawdaddy - Solid rythym and blues
• Crazy Trains
• Crescent
• Crustacean
• Adge Cutler and the Wurzels - Scrumpy and Western
• Dadomo
• Daily Planet
• Dangerous Brothers
• Day One
• Dave and Tim - sixties folkers
• Disorder
• Dive
• The Dogs
• Doreen Doreen
• Down South - Folk rockers carrying on the traditions of Skin the Peeler and more!
• The Driscolls
• The Eagles - 60's r'n'r outfit featured in the film Some People
• The Egg - Bristol/Oxford trance-funkers
• Eighth Day
• Ella and the Goatman
• Rob Ellis
• Essential Bop
• Everbloom
• Experimental Pop Band - New label, new site, new album - enjoy
• Fab 208
• False Idols
• The Family
• The Famous Five - now known as Spiro
• Fastest to Canada
• Fat and Frantic - remembered for songs such as Last Night My Wife Hoovered My Head
• Fat Man Swings
• Feverfew
• A Few Good Men - rockers playing original stuff, including John Telfer of 'Bergerac' fame
• Final Eclipse
• Fish Co.
• Fish Food
• Five Year Plan
• Flash Harry
• Flatmates
• The 405 Lines - Dynamic, powerful, three piece rock band
• Four Way Kill
• Free Spirit Band
• The Fresh Four
• Funkensteins
• Jimmy Galvin
• Gasworks Choir
• Claire Gaynor
• Green Goat
• Gee Baby, I Love You
• Grist - Kick butt country
• The Groove Farm
• Gunner Cade
• Gus Bus Band
• Halo
• PJ Harvey
• Head
• The Heads
• Headbound
• The Heat
• Helena - singer/songwriter
• Hyperdust
• Infinite Monkeys
• The Insects
• Inseminators - Bedminster based band
• Invisible Pair of Hands
• Ivory Springer - badass post-hardcore trio
• Jacuzzi - cabaret trio
• Jaguar
• Jammer - electronic musician
• Jaz Klash
• Jellied Reels - Electric and eclectic Ceilidh / Barn Dance band from Bristol, UK. Putting the "Bo" back into "Diddly"
• Joe Public
• Juan Foote 'n' The Grave - formerly Perkins Diesel Reminder
• Judge Joe Yoda
• Ju-Ju Ganit
• Tim Justice
• K-Passa
• The K Session
• Kayto
• Kenisia - ska/punk
• Keepers of the Fire Choir
• Kickshaw
• Talis Kimberley
• Kosheen
• Kreemo
• Krust
• Kyoko
• Lazenby
• LenZ
• LillyDamWhite
• Looney Tunes
• Los Bambinos
• Los Yanquis - spin off of Juan Foote In The Grave, aka Good Ole Buggers, aka The Lozenges
• Louche
• Lunatic Fringe
• Lupine Howl
• Macaroni Penguins
• Katie McConochie
• Kate McNab - great voice, former member of Sweet Substitute
• Magic
• Magic Robot Online
• Mike Tobin and The Magnets
• The Marys
• Massive Attack
• Me
• Meet Your Feet
• Mia
• The Middle Twenty
• Misdemeanor
• MJ12
• Modesty Blaise
• Moksha
• Monk and Canatella
• Moonflowers
• Moonshot
• Morning Star
• Kizzy Morrell
• Mooz - compelling all female atmospheric groove team
• Kit Morgan Band - Axeman extraordinaire
• Morning Star
• The Morphics
• Mousefolk
• Movietone
• Naked Voices
• Oil Experts
• On The Edge
• One Hour Limit - Ska / Punk
• Ope
• Organelles
• Osmium
• Out Go The Lights
• Outsider
• Paris
• John Parish
• Parlour Talk - grandiose absurdity
• Steve Payne
• Tammy Payne
• Phuzzy Phelt Farmacy
• Pigbag and here
• Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra - Wacky folkers of the early seventies
• Plastic Eyes
• The Pop Group
• Portishead
• Praise Space Electric
• Prints
• Purple Penguin
• The Radicals
• The Radio 3
• Lucy Ray
• Receiver
• Redefine
• Red Rooster
• Respect - the ultimate Soul band
• The Revolutionary Knitting Circle - purely spontaneous improvised music, composed on the spot
• Rip Rig and Panic - 80's chart toppers
• Steve Risley
• Roni Size & Reprazent
• RonnieG
• Rorschach - Goth rockers
• Screen
• Sensory Pulse
• Andy Sheppard - Eclectic saxophone maestro
• The Shmir
• Shoes For Industry
• Siren Blue
• Skin The Peeler
• Skyscraper
• Slow Twitch Fibres
• Smith and Mighty
• Soeza
• Martin Solomon - Celtic/Klezmer!
• Soma - a sort-of-Bristol-based band.
• The Soul Destroyers - "HugeClassicSoulFunGrooveFunkBandThang"
• Soul Searchers
• Soundisciples - razorsharp guitars, electronic beats and synths on the Peaceville label
• Spaceways
• The Spics
• The Spirit Readers
• Spyrex Doom - Bristol Punk band of the eighties
• Starecase
• Raymond Starski
• The Startled Insects - now known as The Insects
• The Stingrays
• Stoloff and Hopkinson
• Stone Crazy
• Stonefaced
• Strange Affair
• Strangelove or Strangelove
• Straw
• Stretch Fiesta
• Stud Lisa
• Sunna
• Super8
• Sweet Soul Sisters
• Talisman
• Jane Taylor
• Techno Twins
• TK3
• Toby
• Trap Two
• Tractor - a noise band
• Tricky
• Two Day Rule
• Tycho
• Ultrasound
• Urban Militia
• Voodoo Junkie
• The Viceroys
• Vice Squad
• Vine
• Amy Wadge
• Wax On Wax Off
• Way Out West
• Wedding Present
• Fred Wedlock - Virtute et Industrial
• Weekenders
• The Welders
• WEOTA
• The Wild Bunch - Seminal 80's Bristol Crew who triggered the Massive, Tricky, Roni Size thing
• What4
• White Hotel
• Whuck
• Hazel Winter
• The X Certs
• Zed's Agenda
• Zero Hertz
• Zoomer - Powerful, punchy and energetic punksters

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