The Louisiana
Bristol's most important indie venue.
An essential tour stop for any emerging indie artist the Louisiana is Bristol's prime indie and folk venue. Literally everyone who's anyone has played the Lousiana on their way to the top, and I mean everyone. Muse, Kings of Leon, White Stripes, Bloc Party, Coldplay, The Libertines, The Strokes... all have graced the Lousiana's modest stage.
What's On At The Louisiana
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Our recent recommendations for The Louisiana
Leaders of the new wave of Brummie heavy ‘stadium doom’ born under the diabolical sign of Sabbath and Maiden. Margarita Witch Cult rip through the 70s proto-metal blues riff rulebook with galloping future-classic choruses destined to lodge themselves eternally in your willing mind. This is a shockingly fresh and vital metal force FFO: Green Lung, Uncle Acid, Truckfighters, Orange Goblin, Sleep.
Margarita Witch Cult / Longheads /Choir of the sun at The Louisiana.
Nigel Chapman renders the world from the outside in, with a kind of absurd spiritual reverence. His literary sophisti-pop band, Nap Eyes, sprout lyrical imagery of animal spirits and phantoms and 13th century castles and if you’re into Breakfast Records this is a no-brainer. FFO: Destroyer, the propelling wind of the self development paradigm, David Berman.
Nap Eyes at The Louisiana.
Cinematic sound design and mesmerising strings meet atmospheric fantasy-pop for a truly transcendent billing of shimmering electronica and ethereal electroacoustics. All topped off by a DJ set from mercurial avant-garde luminary Sarahsson!
Agathe Max + KosmoSuna + Sarahsson at The Louisiana.
Dreamwave’s spellbinding stoner-surfbeat’s sent them stratospheric. Indulge in their Nuggets-grade garage-pop and fuzz-guitar frenzies, utterly essential FFO: Ty Segall, Syd Barrett, Night Beats, Osees, King Gizzard.
Dreamwave - Moon Dogs E.P Launch at The Louisiana.
A truly immersive and atmospheric sonic communion of dreamy dubstep, dusky electronica, neo-classical melodicism and bass reverberations as Ninja Tune affiliate Emika headlines The Louisiana. Big one FFO: Bonobo, Kelly Lee Owens, Nils Frahm, Hania Rani.
Emika - at The Louisiana.