The Pool, Bristol (2026)

08/10/2026

We are thrilled to welcome Faze Action into The Pool!

Faze Action are one of the UK’s most respected live bands to emerge from the dance music scene, blending disco, jazz-funk, Afro-Latin rhythms, Balearic grooves and soulful songwriting into a rich, musicianship-led live experience.

Following the release of their acclaimed new album Distant Dreams, Faze Action have been reimagined as a dynamic nine-piece live band, featuring an exceptional group of musicians including legendary drummer and vocalist Zeke Manyika and keyboard player Pete Z. With live vocals, horns and percussion at the heart of the show, their recent London performances have been met with an outstanding response, reaffirming the band’s reputation for delivering uplifting, immersive and deeply musical live shows.

Formed by brothers Simon and Robin Lee, Faze Action originally emerged in the late 1990s with classics such as In the Trees and Kariba, building a devoted international following while continually evolving their sound. Their music effortlessly bridges live musicianship and dance floor culture, making them equally at home on festival stages, in concert venues and at specialist music events.

Alongside Faze Action Live, Simon Lee is also available for DJ bookings, drawing on decades of dance floor experience and a deep musical knowledge spanning disco, Balearic, Afro-Latin, house and more.

Available for live and DJ bookings.

Contact: [email protected]

P.S! Faze Action play live with the full strength 9 piece band at Fox and Firkin tomorrow night (9th October) - head down if you can!

14/08/2026

The full Pool squad return to Pikes Ibiza for our annual Sunday session this weekend. This year it coincides with DJ Harvey's magnificent Eclipse party at 528 Ibiza and his double Monday appearances at Pikes.

As the whole LA family are over on the island, we are very excited to present Lovefingers in the hot seat on Sunday night with support from the ever bubbling psychedelic duo, . Nina Yamada, our recent addition to our roster from jazzysport.london, also joins with her impeccable style on the Plaza.

Expect a few magic curveballs from the halfway line with the agency crew and friends filling out the rest of the lineup.

It's somewhat of a Pool Pikes holiday week as Heidi Lawden will be playing Freddie's on Saturday, Harvey's Mercury Rising returns on Monday and then and Greg Wilson grace 528 on Tuesday...

Come find us on the white isle 🌞

21/07/2026

The Pool are pleased to announce that Nina Yamada has joined the Pool artists fold.

Nina a DJ, vinyl collector, curator, and founder of .london , the UK wing of legendary Japanese record store, label and streetwear brand Jazzy Sport, which has been shaping Japan’s music and fashion culture since 2002.

Deeply influenced by her father’s extensive vinyl collection (as core member of Jazzy Sport Japan) and the vibrant collective of musicians, DJs, producers, designers, and artists that coalesced around collective via Tokyo’s hip hop, soul and (nu) jazz scene of the 2000s - Nina’s relationship with music and the dancefloor started early and runs deep.

With an early immersion within Japan’s dance culture, and more recent exposure within London’s clubbing scene, Nina’s sets gently guides audiences into a soulful and organic place, moving fluidly across deep house, downtempo, dub, disco, acid jazz, Afrobeat, jazz, Latin, reggae, broken beat, and other groove-driven genres that peak her interest.

Since arriving in the UK in 2022, she has performed across Europe and Asia, appearing at Panorama Bar, , , , and .ldn with well received streams for and .fr and a forthcoming video stream for alongside .tape proving demand for Nina’s sound continues rising.

With a busy summer remaining, we are pleased to see Nina playing across London, Norway, Ibiza, and France before heading to tour Asia and Japan in late September. We encourage you to go catch her spinning at one of the below dates …

24/7 🇬🇧
26/7 🇬🇧
01/8 🇳🇴
14/8 🇬🇧
16/8 TBA, Ibiza 🇪🇸
22/8 🇬🇧
28/8 .ldn 🇬🇧
05/9 🇬🇧
11/9 TBA, NYC 🇺🇸
18/9 , Glastonbury 🇬🇧

Contact [email protected] for enquiries

25/06/2026

We are thrilled to welcome the sunny and warmest to the Pool roster! 🌞

Mafalda has a motto: only play the records you really, really love. You can see that ethos in action when she’s behind the decks, as the beginning of a track makes her smile, or as she sings along the whole way through.

Over the past 10 years, she’s become a celebrated selector, guided by the search for songs that feel like a warm hug. It’s why she was called upon to open for Madlib for a Boiler Room session in Madrid, and invited by Four Tet to play on his curated bill for Nuits Sonores festival in Lyon, and is a standout name on European festivals like Field Day, Glastonbury, We Out Here and Primavera. Her guest mixes for Dekmantel, Gilles Peterson’s 6 Music show, Resident Advisor and beyond are thoughtful, inventive and laced with the occasional what-the-hell rarity.

Jazz was the seed for Mafalda’s DJ journey, specifically hearing Sadar Bahar play a jazz tune in the early hours at Corsica Studios in 2014. It also inspired her to relocate from Lisbon to London, where she found a home on the UK capital’s dancefloors. She soon got the record bug, and landed a job at London record shop Cosmos. Until it shut in 2015, you could also find her at storied basement club Plastic People, the pitch-black boom room where she met Floating Points. Mafalda was instrumental in the early days of his reissues label, Melodies International, going on to co-run the label and programme the events until 2019. She continues to put together the fanzines that accompany the releases, providing artwork as well as being a resident at their parties.

Since then, Mafalda’s monthly NTS Radio show 'Tropic Of Love' has built a dedicated following and turned into a label, “guided by mood rather than genre”, she says. It was named for a Shirley Nanette song, which sprung out of Mafalda’s cult DJ residency at a pub in east London and originally started on Red Bull Radio in 2018. She’s a passionate record collector, but not elitist, and her own imprint is her way of sharing the music she loves even further.

Contact [email protected] for enquiries

13/06/2026

🚨Info for dancers tonight!🚨
marras playing his OG amnesia ‘warm up’ slot after

- Some tickets still available on headfirst
- Tickets on Door more expensive so buy advance if you can!
- Free Sangria for early birds from 18:00 🐥
- Come early, stay late…

If you want to come dance but are short on cash drop us a message — no one turned away for lack of funds ♥️

08/06/2026

.marras and in the this Saturday 1800 - late

We’re bringing two Balearic titans under one roof in Bristol this Saturday 13th for a solstice adjacent (amnesia 1985-1990)-themed pyramid showdown.

At least 70 years of DJ experience in the room… should be a special one

Tickets going on Headfirst via link in the bio…

08/06/2026

.marras and in the this Saturday 1800 - late

We’re brining two Balearic titans under one roof on silverthorne lane this Saturday 13th for a solstice adjacent (amnesia 1985-1990)-themed pyramid showdown.

At least 70 years of DJ experience in the room… should be a special one!

Tickets going on Headfirst via link in the bio

26/05/2026

The Pool are excited to announce another local party for our Bristol friends and family. This time we detour into a deeply balearic beat, inviting two crucially formative players in the Balearic scene to Bristol.

The Pool proudly present:

Leo Mas .marras
Sally Rodgers
&
Hans & Spice Route

At the heart of the Balaeric beat scene of the late 1980s was an Italian DJ - Leo Mas. Leo’s legendary tenure as resident ‘warm up’ DJ at Amnesia ran from 1985 to 1990. Playing midnight to 4am each night, Leo Mas pioneered the eclectic alchemy of the ibiza dancefloor with a heady mix of Soundtracks, Spanish guitar, Soul, Funk, cool Jazz, Electro, Dub Reggae, Afro Beat, Hip Hop, Dark Wave, Indie Rock, Synth Pop, House, Acid and so on and so on...

Joining him is Sally Rodgers: one half of the pioneering electronic dance act A Man Called Adam. With many an appearence across the Cafe Del Mar compilations, Sally brings an eclecticism of her own ‘power-move’ re-edits, Jazz-fusion, global roots, deep house, cosmic disco, new wave, electronica and experimental cuts.

On support we invite Bristolian walking dictionary of left-field curveballs, Spiceroute. Having soundtracked many a local dance, re-edited his own DJ tools. Spiceroute also holds down ’A Better Break‘ on Noods radio alongside Pool head honcho Matty J. Writing, interviewing and documenting cultural fringes of the scene in his spare time.

Resident Pool player Dj Hans has also spun across all corners of Bristol’s underground groove, while hustling records over the counter at Collectors Cave. He has made it a mission to bring Bristol to Ibiza and is now happy to share a little slice of Ibiza back in Bristol.

Line-up:
-> Leo Mas (4 hour set - 00:00 - 04:00)
-> Sally Rodgers (DJ)
-> Hans & Spice Route

Date: Saturday 13th June

Time: 18:00 - 04:00

Venue: The C***r Box, Silverthorne Lane, BS2 0QD

Tix: In Headfirst, link in bio (concessions available, just message)

See you there!

☀️☀️☀️

25/02/2026

We are thrilled to welcome the indefinable dub innovator to the Pool roster.

Hailing from the mythical English town of Breadminster, Elijah Minnelli has been expanding the boundaries of dub through the prisms of folk, cumbia, reggae and cosmic reverberation.

With a new 4 track EP ‘Socket and Ball’ coming via tastemaker label on 6th March 2026 (see clip in slide 2). Minnelli continues to establish his unique dub-wise sound, fusing eastern & western folk influences with cumbia and earthy drones, culminating in his own distinct sonic world and ever evolving lore.

In the words of , Elijah’s music could be described as “earthy, rootsy mutations on the reggae gene, owing as much to folk and Cumbia as it does to dub.” With a plethora of sought after self-released 7 inch, plus ‘Perpetual Musket’ an acclaimed 2024 album on esteemed label FatCat Records, Minnelli’s sound stands out by balancing its influences with a unique irreverence.

Critically, Elijah’s 2025’s LP ‘Clams as a Main Meal’ (slide three) garnered his most glowing reviews yet, with positive nods from The Guardian and The Quietus voting ‘Canaan Land’ featuring Dennis Bovel, in their top 5 tracks of 2025.

In a live context, the dub elements of Minnelli’s sound come to the fore. Stood behind his mixing desk, he strips back and rebuilds his usual blend of rickety, ragtag percussion and warmed-through subs. Layered with his trademark live vocals and folk melodies the end result is a set of wheezing melancholia that strives beyond pure sound system functionality. This unique set-up has seen him grace stages as varied as London’s Cafe OTO, Copenhagen’s Dubfabrikken, Belgium’s Meakusma and Munich’s Circus Krone, and alongside artists such as Shackleton, The Notwist and Holy Tongue.

“The splicing of genres feels seamless, joyful and briskly contemporary.” The Guardian

“No one sounds like Elijah Minnelli.” - Sounds of the Universe

Available for Live & DJ bookings. Please contact [email protected]

19/02/2026

We are very excited to be putting on a local party in our Bristol home with Maurice Fulton / at the helm.

In collaboration with to see in the Spring Equinox.

4 hrs from Maurice, limited capacity, late finish, strictly no photos, plus smoke machine.

Support from The Pool DJs on warmup.

Entry requirements: 18+, last entry at midnight.

Limited tickets on headfirst now…

Thanks to for the brilliant artwork.

The Pool

08/10/2026

14/08/2026

21/07/2026

25/06/2026

13/06/2026

08/06/2026

08/06/2026

26/05/2026

25/02/2026

19/02/2026

Address

Website

Alerts

Shortcuts

Sponsored

Share

Listing takedown request