La Bomba

31/01/2025

Boom! Looking forward to this! Big up and and everyone else involved. Looks like a banger. 🔥 🔥

23/01/2025

Looking ahead to March we have the wonderful joining us for another funky trip around the world! 🌎

London-based DJ, festival organiser and musician Poly-Ritmo brings heat to the hips and feet with selections from around the globe. While she doesn’t stick to one style or genre, her joyful energy always radiates to the crowd, weaving tunes that are genuinely eclectic and igniting dancefloors with percussive rhythmic movement.

Tickets on sale now 🎫 (headfirstbristol)

10/01/2025

Coming up! La Bomba at 💥

11/01 Andy Votel
01/02 Santa Leticia
01/03 Poly Ritmo
05/04 Duncan Brooker

Every first Saturday of the month from February which nicely coincides with the Bristol record fair

11/12/2024

Excited to announce that next year we will be starting monthly selector sessions at The Jam Jar Bristol 💣

Every 1st Saturday of the month we’ll be inviting top DJs/record diggers from around the world.

More details soon!

14/11/2024

New edition of Field Trip up on Mixcloud - please check it out!

John Stapleton Field Trip Monthly, Wednesday 1-3pm World, World Music, Afrobeat, Funk, Psychedelic https://totallywiredradio.com/john-stapleton/ Please support TWR 💚 Thank you! https://totallywiredradio.com/support/ All original 45s for this show, from Ethiopia to Jamaica, Weldon Irvine to Fela K...

29/10/2024

This Saturday we’re playing records at the Riverside Inn Saltford 💀

18/10/2024

Wahoo! 🔥 Coming up next month is our annual session with the one and only 💥

Every year we get together and it goes off, don’t sleep! Tickets on sale now from headfirst bristol 🎟️

For those of you that don’t know 🤷‍♂️
Ernesto Chahoud is an internationally renowned DJ, compiler and music researcher from Beirut who aims to bring the rarest and sometimes strangest records to people’s ears. He co-founded the Beirut Groove Collective, a decade-old vinyl DJ collective that runs one of Beirut’s hippest weekly parties, the BGC All-Nighter, where obscure 1960s and 1970s clubbing records from around the world can be heard.







📸 Si Jubb Carruthers

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10/10/2024

We’re sad to announce that due to circumstances beyond our control we’ve had to cancel tomorrows La Bomba Lost Horizon

All ticket holders will be refunded automatically. We’re really sorry for any disappointment, we’re gutted too 😕

02/10/2024

Wah Wah 45s 25th Anniversary with Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu with DJs Dom Servini, DJ John Stapleton & Boom Operator 9pm-3am Lost Horizon - FRI 11th OCT 💣

27/09/2024

Saturday 2nd November we’re back the Riverside Inn with our pal Spinning original vintage vinyl from around the world, on the beautiful Downbeat Melody sound. 🎵 💀

2pm-11pm
Riverside Inn, Saltford

23/09/2024

Coming up! 💫 Fri 11th Oct
We’re celebrating 25 years of with and 🎈

18/09/2024

Scenes from last time the Flammer Dance Band beamed down to the The Jam Jar Bristol 🛸 They’re back this Friday and you’d be foolish to miss out. Tickets over at Headfirst Bristol ✌️

03/09/2024

This Sunday! Our last day party of the summer and it’s a big one!

Quantic

No doubt, if you’re reading this you already know who Quantic is… a true musical explorer and cultural magpie - over the years and during the course of fifteen albums, he’s immersed himself in soul, funk, Ethiojazz, Cumbia, Salsa and all forms of club music, always arriving at a sound that is uniquely his.

Red Bananna (Barcelona)

Anna Fillat is red bananna, a collector and selector of vinyl music since the age of 15. From early on, she has been in contact with music from all over the world, but her horizons expanded after living in Chile in 2014. Her vinyl sessions highlights rhythms from Latin America, the Caribbean Coast, Middle East and Africa, with a goal to engage communities but above all to generate good energy,
enjoy the music and dance.

DJ Five-Stylez (Bristol)

For the last 20 years Five-Stylez has been a continuous presence in the Bristol scene. Traversing many genres, he is one of the most versatile party rocking turntablists’ this city has to offer. He has some seriously deep crates combining funk, cumbia and other Latin sounds.

La Bomba (John Stapleton & Boom Operator)
La Bomba is a DJ duo dedicated to playing the finest and funkiest vintage dance music from around the world - from Afrobeat to Highlife to Boogaloo to Funk.

John Stapleton
Vinyl Veteran John Stapleton has been DJing for over three decades - from Iceland to Australia, and played regularly at Glastonbury, WOMAD and Shambala amongst others. He has regular monthly radio shows on Noods and Totally Wired Radio, and runs Bristol’s finest vintage record shop – Wanted Records.

Boom Operator
The other half of La Bomba, Bristol’s Cumbia King, avid record collector specialising in vintage tropical rhythms from Latin America and Carribean. Known for spinning obscure Latin dancefloor shakers. Expect Cumbia, Salsa, Guaguanco & Funk, all on original vinyl.

The party starts at 2pm, with all-day music until 10pm on Bristol’s best rooftop terrace.