Hen & Chicken

Jazz: Sam Glaser Quintet
2026-10-01 20:00 - 22:30 UTC | Chicken Shed
For our first touring band of the season we’re pleased to present for the first time saxophonist Sam Glaser, with a band of current London luminaries who between them have been performing with artists such as Alex Hitchcock, Emma Rawicz, Ant Law, Kit Downes and more.
Sam Glaser is an alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader based in London, UK. He is a virtuosic improviser and a unique voice on the UK jazz scene, and his warm and distinctive saxophone sound, paired with lyrical, energetic, and emotive playing, have led to renown amongst musicians and listeners alike. Sam’s saxophone playing is firmly grounded in the history of jazz music but takes great inspiration from modern masters including Will Vinson, Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Ben Wendel.
Sam graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2016 with a 1st class honours degree in jazz saxophone, where he studied with some of the UK’s leading jazz musicians including Julian Siegel, Iain Ballamy, Nikki Iles, James Allsopp, Gareth Lockrane, and Tom Cawley. He was also a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra between 2013 and 2018, where he held the principle alto chair for two years and during which time performed with artists including Gregory Porter, Clare Teal, Zoe Rahman, and Jason Yarde. He was also a featured soloist on the studio album “NYJO 50”, released on Whirlwind Records in 2015.
Highly sought after, Sam has performed with leading musicians and bands including the Tom Smith big band, Patchwork Jazz Orchestra, the Gareth Lockrane Big Bang, Adam Woodcock’s Meridian, and the Tom Niblock big band. He was a featured soloist on Stan Sulzmann’s “Mon Ami”, released in 2021, and recorded for Slowly Rolling Camera on their record “Juniper”, released on Edition Records in 2018.
Read more here: Sam Glaser Music

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Music: My Darling Clementine
2026-10-01 20:00 - 22:30 | Hen & Chicken Studio
“Johnny Cash & June Carter, Dolly Parton & Porter Waggoner, Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris, Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra. Now add to that list Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish, AKA, My Darling Clementine who have earned their place in the role call of great country duettists” – UNCUT
Michael Weston King & Lou Dalgleish are outstanding songwriters and singers individually, who between them have worked with such diverse artists as Nick Cave, Bryan Ferry, The Brodsky Quartet, Steve Earle, Nils Lofgren, Ron Sexsmith, & Graham Parker, but together they create harmonious magic and are a formidable musical force
Since coming togther in 2011 they have released 6 albums, and won numerous awards in the UK, Scandinavia and N. America. Their songs have been covered by over 50 different artists and featured in various films and TV shows. Lou’s song ‘No Matter What Tammy Said’ was placed in the top 25 country songs of the 21st Century by Country Music People magazine, while Michael’s song ‘Riding The Range’ was recorded by the late, great Townes Van Zandt
The current My Darling Clementine live show is a trip through their extensive back-catalogue, including songs from their 2021 album Country Darkness, a collection of Elvis Costello songs re-interpreted for duet, made in collaboration with the brilliant pianist, and long-time Costello side-man, Steve Nieve.
“Costello’s songs, King and Dalgleish’s voices, Nieve’s keys… it’s a perfect fit”- American Songwriter
They will also be showcasing songs from their new solo albums, Michael’s “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore” (April ’26) and Lou’s “Adverse Camber” (August ’26).
“King and Dalgleish have re-invented the country duet – The mingling of these two voices is just heavenly” – Mojo

Bristol Modern Jive
2026-10-06 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-10-13 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-10-20 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-10-27 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-11-03 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-11-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-11-17 19:30 - 21:00 | Hen and Chicken, 210 North Street, Southville,, Bristol, BS3 1JF, United Kingdom
Bristol Modern Jive Club Classes offer modern LeRoc Classes in Bristol. No need to bring a partner as we all move around the room.
Warning! Dancing seriously improves your health, including:

Balance, coordination and spatial awareness
Memory and mental fitness
Cardiovascular (good for your heart)
Meet new people and make new friends
Stress relief
Weight loss, burns calories
Reduce depression (When you exercise, your body releases chemicals called endorphins. Endorphins trigger a positive feeling in the body ).
Keeps you fit and increases energy.

No need to book in advance. Just turn up on the day/night.

Music: Dar Williams
2026-10-06 20:00 - 22:30 | Hen & Chicken Studio
Dar Williams’ lyrics contain bouquets of optimism, delivered on melodies alternating between beguiling lightness and understated gravity.
Williams strongly believes that all of us possess our own power and ability to achieve, and she rejects the exceptionalism that encourages us to “admire that yonder star,” while making us feel small and insignificant; unworthy of shining on our own but hoping to catch enough distant light to inspire some tiny accomplishment. Williams has always been very interested in how to control our future and this album has to do with the fact that at some point, you just can’t. Like everyone else, Williams spent 2020 in that state of non-control.
She and longtime producer Stewart Lerman tracked most of the album, her 12th studio recording, in November of 2019. In late February of 2020, she cut the title tune in Woodstock with bassist Gail Ann Dorsey and Larry Campbell, who produced the track and played guitars, pedal steel and twangy baritone guitar. When told they had to postpone a mid-March mixing date, Campbell said he wasn’t feeling well anyway. Turns out he’d contracted a serious case of COVID-19. That was a clear sign that at some point, you have to meet life where it meets you …the common thread throughout that these songs, the willingness to meet life as it arrives.

Music: Open Mic Night
2026-10-07 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-11-04 20:00 - 23:00 | Chicken Shed
Join us at the Hen & Chicken for our monthly open mic night — a welcoming evening of live local music in a dedicated event space with a real concert feel. Hosted by Sarah Larkham and Elliot Hall, the night is open to both performers and music lovers, with free entry for all.
Event Details

When: First Wednesday of every month
Time: 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Where: Hen & Chicken, 210 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JF
Entry: Free
Hosted by: Sarah Larkham & Elliot Hall

If you’d like to perform, it’s best to book a slot in advance as the night can get busy. Whether you’re trying out new material or simply coming along to enjoy an evening of live music, everyone is welcome.
Follow us at: https://www.facebook.com/henandchickenopenmic
And if you would like to perform at our next open mic night, send Sarah a message via the page’s Facebook Messenger.

Comedy: Jacob Hawley- FIGHTING AGE MAN
2026-10-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Hen & Chicken Studio
The Screen Rot Podcast’s Jacob Hawley presents a bold new hour of blistering stand-up, questionable opinions, and stories that most people would need waterboarding to admit to. As seen on The Have A Word podcast, most of the other podcasts, Talksport, Sky, ITV, The BBC, and OnlyFans.

Jazz: From A to Z – The music of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims
2026-10-08 20:00 - 22:30 | Chicken Shed
Al Cohn and Zoot Sims were one of the great tenor sax partnerships in jazz. In a series of albums beginning in the late fifties, along with regular spots at the Half Note in New York, they developed a quintet sound based on a joyful approach to performing, rooted in swing, informed by bebop and growing from their experiences together in the Woody Herman band. Al Cohn’s arrangements are super hip and not performed all that often. They often create the feeling of a ‘mini-big band’, with driving swing and tight ensemble playing, along with space for the soloists to shine individually and in duet. This is an exciting challenge for a band and a hugely enjoyable experience for the audience.
For this brand-new project, Luke Annesley has assembled some great musicians, all well-known to Bristol audiences (and beyond), to recreate Cohn’s arrangements, which he has meticulously transcribed. With Ruth Hammond alongside Luke himself on tenor saxes, the band also features Tom Berge on piano, Riaan Vosloo on double bass and Scott Hammond on drums. Luke has a story about meeting Zoot Sims when he was 14 which he’ll bend your ear about given an opportunity, but probably even better just to sit back and enjoy an evening’s homage to the music of Al and Zoot!
Read more about the music of Al Cohn & Zoot Sims here: https://nationaljazzarchive.org.uk/explore/interviews/1634252-al-cohn-and-zoot-sims

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Comedy: Jacob Hawley - Fighting Age Man
2026-10-09 20:00 - 22:30 | Hen & Chicken Studio

Music: Poor Old Dogs
2026-10-09 21:00 - 23:00 | Chicken Shed
An original take on traditional folk music.
Poor Old Dogs is a riotous folk band from Bristol, bringing beer-soaked mayhem and foot-stomping energy to the timeless traditions of UK and Irish folk music.
Having been playing together for over a decade, they’ve honed their craft and their chaos, with a knack for turning any gig into a rollicking, rowdy singalong. They deliver raucous tunes, wild stories, and the kind of chaos that pairs perfectly with a pint (or three), performing both traditional music and their own self-penned songs
Expect a night of riotous folk, beer-soaked mayhem and foot-stomping energy.

Comedy: Robert White 'That' Gay Autistic Keyboard Tanktop Comedy Guy!
2026-10-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Hen & Chicken Studio
‘THAT’ Gay Autistic Keyboard Tanktop Comedy Guy! is going on tour with a brand new show!

Whether you’re a fan from his series of Britain’s Got Talent, or you’re one of his millions of online viewers but only just realising that Robert White is ‘THAT’ Gay Autistic Keyboard Tanktop Comedy Guy, you’ll want to see his mix of songs, stories, stand up, gags, props, improvisation, interaction and all sorts of other engaging naughty nonsense besides!
“Very funny, fantastic oddball” Time Out

Comedy: Tom Ward - Post-Millennium Tension
2026-10-16 20:00 - 22:30 | Hen & Chicken Studio
Before Tom Ward bails out on the modern world entirely to commit to nostalgia full-time, the burner phone using, Discman carrying, 1988-1995 obsessed freak is giving the present tense one last try. Not for him, but for his 2-year-old son who lives there. But how does 2026 compare to the one he grew up in? Tom explores the head f**k of popular culture in the modern world versus that of his youth in his trademark bittersweet style.

As seen on Live at the Apollo, Roast Battle and Qi.
“Fine jokes and star Presence” – Time Out

Music: September Song present ‘The Perfect View’
2026-10-18 15:00 - 17:30 | Chicken Shed
September Song, the latest collaboration between John Douglass and Steve Hogg, perform stripped back versions from their new album ‘The Perfect View’ followed by a full album playback.
They will also be reflecting on their 40-year musical partnership, signed to Atlantic Records, Kitchenware Records and EMI and performing songs from their vast back catalogue as alumni of Bristol favourites Augustine, Kid Sinister and Wushcatte.
With live appearances rare in recent years, this promises to be a special occasion.

COMEDY: GREIPUR HJALTASON - THE ICEBREAKER UK TOUR
2026-10-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Hen & Chicken Studio
Greipur Hjaltason — Iceland’s Comedian of the Year 2020 (yes, the competition wasn’t exactly fierce up north 😏) — has rapidly become one of the most recognisable voices in European stand-up comedy. Now, for the very first time, he’s taking his unique brand of humour on tour across the UK , ready to meet the people who helped propel him to international fame.

With over 2 million followers on Instagram, more than 800,000 fans on TikTok, and 1+ billion views, Greipur has taken the internet by storm. His rise began with viral videos featuring his razor-sharp wit, perfectly deadpan delivery, and brutally honest observations on parenting, relationships, and life on a tiny island full of volcanoes, glaciers, and questionable weather choices.

Online he’s known simply as @greipjokes — a comic voice that travels far beyond Iceland. His material leaps from everyday quirks to cultural weirdness, with a twist of Icelandic charm. One moment he’s lecturing about elves, the next he’s dismantling Nordic stoicism — and audiences everywhere crack.

Fresh off his digital domination and a guest spot on the award-winning Comedy Roundtable podcast, Greipur now steps off the screen and onto real stages across the UK. Expect sharp storytelling, sneaky sarcasm, and a mischievously charming presence that’s even better in person.

From volcanoes and glaciers… to audiences across the UK.

Greipur Hjaltason — live, unfiltered, and funnier than ever.

Comedy: DAN TIERNAN QUARTZ AND ALL
2026-10-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Hen & Chicken Studio
Dan Tiernan is back at it again: and this time he’s got magic rocks in his pocket.
With a hat trick of sold-out Edinburgh Festival runs, Dan’s a two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee who has received countless five-star reviews. No wonder the Guardian has named him ‘one of comedy’s most distinctive new voices’.
“Loud, inventive, visceral… it’s a blast” **** The Times
Dan returns on tour armed with an amethyst, a bucketful of sage and a rose quartz the size of his impossibly large head.
As seen on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of Ten Cats Does Countdown, The Last Leg, and QI.
NOMINEE: Best Newcomer – Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023
NOMINEE: Best Comedy Show – Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2025
NOMINEE: Most Outstanding Show – Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026
“One of the most compelling voices to emerge in stand-up in recent years” ***** Mail on Sunday

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Find more comedy shows from The Comedy Box here: https://www.thecomedybox.co.uk/site/index.asp

Comedy: RACHEL FAIRBURN - VEXY BEASTS
2026-10-23 20:00 - 22:30 | Hen & Chicken Studio
Hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed 2025 show Side Eye, Rachel Fairburn is back with new personalities and some old favourites for you to love and hate. Expect nepo babies, middle class rock stars, terrifying mothers, biting social commentary and lots of big laughs.
Co-host of International smash hit podcast All Killa No Filla and as seen on Live at the Apollo (BBC Two), Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (Dave), Richard Osman’s House of Games (BBC Two) and Russell Howard Hour Life Lesson (Sky).
“Rock ’n’ Roll Star of British Comedy” Rolling Stone

Music: Sara Milonovich, with Greg Anderson.
2026-10-30 20:00 - 22:30 | Chicken Shed
Sara Milonovich brings us a fiddle-fueled, heady harvest of heart-stopping original roots rock and alt-Americana with guitarist Greg Anderson.
They will be touring off of the back of a new album release in Autumn 2026.

Music: Richard Shindell
2026-11-10 20:15 - 23:00 | Hen & Chicken Studio
Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant, crossing thresholds, that informs his illumination of the human experience through narrative song. Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery, busked in the streets of Paris, opened for Joan Baez (who covered several of his songs), and collaborated with Grammy-winner Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, Elvis Costello).

Originally from New York, now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. Meticulously recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires, his most recent release, Careless, offered an ambitious, luxurious, full-length statement. Shindell immersed himself in the studio, allowing the time and latitude to explore, experiment, take risks—to play—as each of these eleven songs was given form and substance. While his signature acoustic guitar style is used to good effect, Careless also found Shindell plugging in more. “The wider sonic and dynamic range of the electric has been a real inspiration. Rejuvenating.”

During the pandemic, Shindell stayed in Argentina, out on the wide open Pampa, reading, writing, taking walks, doing a little experimental recording, and tending the garden. He now returns to the road for a limited number of performances.

Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell’s songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society’s fringes. From lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs, to dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics, prejudice, war and religion, to the comic point-of-view of a cow stuck in a barbed wire fence, he has a unique ability to morph into the soul of the many and varied personalities he casts as narrators in certain songs—veritable novellas framed in haunting acoustic melodies.

“Occasionally an artist has a night that makes even skeptics think, “O.K., maybe he is the best.” Richard Shindell achieved this.” — Ann Powers, NY Times

Comedy: FINLAY CHRISTIE - CHAMPAGNE CASANOVA
2026-11-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Hen & Chicken Studio
Finlay Christie (Live at the Apollo, 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Have I Got News For You) humblebrags for an hour about his fuckboy era and his new search for meaningful, authentic connection. His past YouTube specials OK Zoomer and Aura Farmer have nearly a million views total online, which is really good.
“The voice of a generation.” – Chortle

Music: Furlined
2026-11-14 21:00 - 23:30 | Chicken Shed
Following their sold-out Hen & Chicken show in February 2026, we are excited to welcome Furlined back.
Infectious hooks, rich vocals and lush, swooning cello are the defining features of Furlined, a Bristol-based band formed in 2012 by singer-songwriter Neil Crossley and cellist Tegan Everett.
The band’s sound spans alt country and wry English chamber pop – “Morrissey meets Americana” as one review put it – and they have been likened to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Richard Hawley and Orange Juice.
Furlined have attracted acclaim in publications such as Mojo, Clash Magazine, RnR and Billboard. “Songwriter Neil Crossley has one of those winning, strong yet gentle Jackie Leven / Richard Hawley baritones that do male vulnerability beautifully,” concluded Mojo in a 4/5 review of the band’s second album Win A Dream Wedding. “Furlined’s other striking sound is Tegan Everett’s cello, which intros most of Crossley’s dark-honey melodies… A band with distinct aural charms.”
“Morrissey meets Americana – superb songs with an irresistible English wit.” Total Guitar 9/10

Comedy: The Dark Room with John Robertson
2026-11-15 20:00 - 22:00 | Hen & Chicken Studio
Welcome to THE DARK ROOM – the legendary interactive comedy show that fuses improv, crowdwork and gaming to create an insane live-action videogame!

“A Rocky Horror for nerds… reader, I howled” Daily Telegraph

Now its 13th year, this high-octane interactive show is the brainchild of comedian & cult leader John Robertson. Filled with stand-up, appalling prizes and more audience chanting than you’d get at a protest – The Dark Room is a gut-busting rock n’ roll comedy experience for everyone who buys a ticket.

“Will have you crying with laughter”★★★★★ Broadway Baby

Permanently on tour The Dark Room has headlined stages at Glastonbury, PAX, Download Festival, MCM Comic Con, Utrecht International Comedy Festival 2000 Trees, UK Games Expo and Bluedot Festival, and sold out at Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre and hundreds of theatres around the world.

Oh, and videos of The Dark Room roasting videogames and swearing at children keep popping up on people’s social media, which is nice.

Come watch, and if you want – play – the choose-your-own-adventure madness!

The crowd is trapped inside an inescapable dungeon with a sadistic videogame boss!

Pick increasingly surreal options off the screen and try to escape!

If you win – you get money!
If you fail – YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!

Now, will you:

Find the Light Switch
Go North?
Abandon Hope?
Be sworn at by a man wearing spiked armour and a lot of leather?
(This option is permanently set to “On”)

WINNER Chortle Award
RUNNER- UP NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy
VIRAL AS HELL TikTok, Instagram

SOLD OUT – Edinburgh Fringe 2019, 2022, 2023 & 2024

“NOT TO BE MISSED” The Guardian

Muisc: Abigail Lapell
2026-11-17 20:00 - 22:30 | Hen & Chicken Studio
“Abigail writes songs that stop you right in your tracks.”— Brooklyn Vegan
Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell returns with a new album, Shadow Child, due for release 8th May, 2026.
Over the past six years and four spellbinding releases, Lapell has garnered four Canadian Folk Music Awards and accrued a staggering 60 million streams across online platforms. She tours regularly across Canada, the U.S. and Europe.

Music: Sarah Yeo - Joan Baez And Me
2026-11-18 19:45 - 22:15 | Chicken Shed
One of the UK’s high rising songwriters Sarah Yeo took the UK by storm earlier in 2026 with her sell out tour of the Music Of Joan Baez’ She is returning again to perform this material in her own “beautiful voice” (BBC) from Joan’s early career from the first recording, ‘Harvard Square’ and onward through her lengthy journey to date, telling pivotal stories and singing key songs from the Newport Festival days, her years in Nashville, activism around the world, her relationship both on and off the stage with Bob Dylan, and her love of recording just great songs.
The set list takes note of the current political climate and includes self penned songs ‘Diamonds and Rust’, ‘The Winds of the Old Days’, Dylan greats such as ‘Love Is Just A Four Letter Word’, ‘There But For Fortune’, ‘Farewell Angelina’ and the wonderful catalogue from songwriters Stevie Wonder, Phil Ochs, Janis Ian and not forgetting the early Folk covers, ‘The Banks of the Ohio’, ‘House of the Rising Sun’ and many more hits.
This time this singer and acoustic guitarist will include a small selection of her own beautiful compositions during the evening from her recent highly acclaimed album releases ‘The Wisdom Of The Wind’ and ‘The Circles Of The Grain’
Sarah, a recent finalist in the ‘International songwriting competition’, also delves into the Spanish language repertoire Joan loved so much.
Sarah’s ‘warm rich voice’ with sweet higher notes, lends itself perfectly for this special evening of songs and stories.
As Sarah learns more about Miss Baez’s life and career, she feels she can relate to her in many ways, making the project a very personal, interesting and inspiring experience.
Learn more about Sarah Yeo here: Songwriter | Sarah-yeo-singer | England

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Comedy: Fatiha El-Ghorri - COCKNEY STACKING DOLL
2026-11-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Hen & Chicken Studio
BRUV. The break-out star of Taskmaster and Mr Bigstuff is only embarking on her first ever stand-up tour, isn’t she?! Fatiha El-Ghorri’s ironed her swaggest hijab and she’s ready to hit the road to serve up her one-of-a-kind and award-winning stand-up.
Expect strong language, stereotype-smashing, and to fall side-splittingly in love with this knock-out comic who is destined for stardom.
As seen on Live At The Apollo, QI, The Last Leg, The Jonathan Ross Show, Cats Does Countdown and Donkey. As heard on Off Menu, Alan Carr’s Life’s A Beach and A Match Made Inshallah for BBC Radio 4. Winner of Leicester Comedy Festival’s Best Debut Show award.
“You’re a funny c**t, you are” – Danny Dyer
“Fatiha El-Ghorri’s impeccable timings and tough-girl shtick add warmth, raunch and surprise” – New York Times
