Exchange
Forward thinking live music venue in Old Market.
Since opening its doors to the public in later summer 2012, Bristol's Exchange has proven itself to be a key player in Bristol's live music music scene. With ticketted events almost every night of the week, Exchange plays host to a wide variety of live bands and styles. That said, the venue's musical programming for bands that sit on the heavier side of the fence (post-rock, math rock, psych) is unrivalled elsewhere in Bristol.
The venue is set over two floors with the larger of the two stages upstairs found upstairs. While club promoters are able to run two concurrent soundsystems, gig promoters and all-dayers use the space to sequence bands and provide a constant programme of music.
Doors for live music events at Exchange are typically 7.30pm, while clubnights vary.
The venue is set over two floors with the larger of the two stages upstairs found upstairs. While club promoters are able to run two concurrent soundsystems, gig promoters and all-dayers use the space to sequence bands and provide a constant programme of music.
Doors for live music events at Exchange are typically 7.30pm, while clubnights vary.
What's On At Exchange
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alternative rock
emo
pop punk
post-hardcore
skate punk
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garage rock
post-punk
punk
rock-and-roll
hardcore-punk
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electro
electronic
indie pop
synthpop
pop
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alternative pop
indie pop
pop rock
pop
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emo
grunge
noise rock
post-hardcore
punk
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alternative rock
punk
rock
lgbtq+
hardcore-punk
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experimental rock
grunge
psychedelic rock
rock
stoner rock
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alternative pop
alternative rock
indie pop
indie rock
singer-songwriter
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bassline
dancehall
dub
reggae
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alternative rock
indie pop
indie rock
post-punk
punk
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alternative rock
folk
psychedelic rock
singer-songwriter
soul
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alternative hip hop
alternative pop
hip hop
rap
underground hip hop
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art rock
drone
experimental
folk
psych
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alternative metal
doom metal
punk
metal
hardcore-punk
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alternative pop
alternative rock
folk rock
indie folk
indie rock
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alternative metal
post-hardcore
sludge metal
metal
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alternative pop
electro
electronic
punk
pop
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breakbeat
disco
drum and bass
hip hop
uk garage
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alternative rock
pop punk
punk
skate punk
hardcore-punk
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folk rock
punk
traditional folk
comedy
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alternative pop
indie folk
indie pop
indie rock
spoken word
Get a feel for Exchange
Our recent recommendations for Exchange
Marauding Norsemen Agabas charge into town wielding their self-coined ‘deathjazz’: a pummeling uptempo rawk engine with a thrash gallop, horn blasts strafing through the noise, and shredding throat growls atop a storm of riffs and rhythms. A cataclysmic ruin ritual FFO: Kvelertak, Imperial Triumphant, Slipknot, Converge.
AGABAS at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Nothing's scarier than this 9 hour / 19 band pit-blender of gruelling hxc and battered Halloween costumes. The Blowout punk pulse is always impeccable, with Perp Walk-adjacent powerviolence from Mental Pressure, Proprioception’s end-of-days crust, the unholy dungeon rot triptych of Cryptbreaker / Plague Pit / Mortal Filth + stacks more across 2 stages.
Blowout Halloween All Dayer at Exchange.
Halloween's just another name for deathcore pile-up, and Rotfest knows it! Taking over upstairs/downstairs @ Exchange for a wall-to-wall crushing ft. Lacerta's evil Slipnkot-indebted nu-metal, rising local metalcorers Kintona, and, scariest of all ... something called piratecore coming in from Plymouth. This a Baphomet beatdown ppl!
ROTFEST at Exchange.
They’re here, they’re queer, and they’re still furious; with nine years of raucous DIY protest punk under their belts there’s no excuse not to know and love Bristol’s own Menstrual Cramps. Blunt as fuck feminist anthems to batter a Nazi to FFO Dream Nails, Lambrini Girls, Panic Shack, PUSSYLIQUOR.
The Menstrual Cramps at Exchange.
Sell-out warning! Newcastle’s Geordie jazz trio have been absolutely cooking this past year, tearing through stages across the UK and Europe. Their latest album, co-produced by black midi’s Geordie Greep, is a gloriously wonky, punky spin on nu-jazz, part sonic fever dream, part aural memoir of the North. Insta cop if you dig Ezra Collective, Sons of Kemet, or Ishmael Ensemble.
Knats at Exchange.