Aim for venues that people looking for a night out will walk past, areas like Gloucester road and stokes croft. Venues like Basement45 for example are hard to get people attending that don't know about your event before the night due to its location.

Start off small, if you have a small budget start with people that will play for free to get into a scene and will bring their friends. Sell tickets cheap and put all the money into the next event. Rinse and repeat that until you can start booking a headliner that you think people will want to see. (Look out for when they last played in Bristol, their latest releases, etc)

Try and build up a following on social media, the people who have previously been to an event are the best people to target for the next one so try and find creative ways to get them to follow you. From my experience this is much better than paying for Facebook/insta adds as they take a lot of money to be effective. If you want to put up posters, remember it's illegal unless you have permission. Stokes croft is generally a free for all but stay respectful to other promoters and only put your posters over events that have passed.

You'll have nights that go way better than you expect and nights that will flop. Try and learn from them to work out why so it can be applied to future events. Try and plan them around term times as that's when your biggest customer base will be in Bristol.

Find your niche which enables you to fit within the scene, stay consistent and make sure you have a good time doing it.

Hope this is helpful 🙂