wych elm And Friends Take Over Bristol's Cafe Kino For Bewitching Night Of Music

wych elm | Rabbit Vision | Tummyache | caitlin lamb

Cafe Kino, Bristol

24th April 2026

Photography by @ishottheband

Amelie Peters

Writer/designer and sub-editor for Epigram. If you wish to summon me, say something relatively pretentious about post punk music three times, click your heels and I’ll appear.

wych elm deliver a beautifully melancholic set at Bristol’s Cafe Kino, with support from caitlin lamb, Tummyache and Rabbit Vision

Opening with her solo folk soliloquy style, caitlin lamb has the audience in true palm of her hand. Softly reverential, her lyrics speak to the loss of love, warmth and echoes of drifting fond memories.

Sat at the centre of an enthralled crowd, caitlin lamb reminds you of a kindergarten teacher – instead of sandboxes and crayons, she gently whispers lilting teachings about the art of longing. The most folky of the evening, lamb’s philosophical musings start the night with a calm grace, the audience gazing mistily toward the stage.

Tummyache, in their solo form, commanded the stage, delivering hedonistic punk straight from the 90s. Much like the princess of punk, Courtney Love herself, Tummyache juxtaposed ripping riffs with a salted spiteful feminine drawl.

Dominated by guitars, Tummyache is a collision of intoxicating noise. With politically punctuated lyrics and strident storytelling, Tummyache is raucous, angry and deliberate.

Self described as experimental, Rabbit Vision sure are exploring something. Taking clear inspiration from 1970s new wave, they take the abrasive guitars and emotional spoken word to a new place. Rabbit Vision have a clear sense of who they are and a youthful uninterrupted charm, despite some shaky stage banter.

There’s a glass-like timbre to wych elm’s catilin lamb’s vocals. Smooth diaphanous notes shift into emotive shards of searing sound. Macabre lyrics conjure woeful imagery, cynicism meant entirely for plunging oneself into a melancholic revery.

Sultry emotional poetics spill across the room as wych elm take the stage, with anguished lyrics speaking on the uncertainty of relationships. Gloomy but truthful, wych elm offer an emotionally enchanting barrage of sound.

There’s a heavy well-deserved confidence to the band, the music rooted in darkly personal but poignant themes. wych elm are beautifully witchy and an absolute must see.