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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jazz
alternative rock
contemporary jazz
psychedelic rock
classic rock
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indie rock
northern soul
rock-and-roll
new wave
disco
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rock
blues-rock
country rock
classic rock
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indie rock
art rock
experimental pop
post rock
new wave
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alternative rock
indie rock
post-punk
emo
post-hardcore
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indie rock
rock
post-punk
experimental pop
rock-and-roll
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punk
post-punk
hardcore-punk
pop punk
skate punk
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country
blues
swing
new orleans blues
rockabilly
Get a feel for The Louisiana
Our recent recommendations for The Louisiana
Bristol’s own Spin Class showcase their arid psych-prog in a desert cocktail of sticky melodies and overcooked guitar amps. Alongside them, Doomsday Orchestra sketch an afterworld of glowing 80s synth debris, while The Kruds play raw and unpolished garage tunes. Sun-blasted psychedelic grit FFO: Pallbearer, Moonstone, Baroness, The Lunar Effect.
Garage Rock at the Louisiana
Up-n-coming bedroom pop to soundtrack your sadboi Jan! Dandelion’s stripped-back, heart-on-sleeve confessionals sound like a hushed collab between Christian Lee Hutson, The Sundays and Snail Mail – slow-burn storytelling gorgeousness, well worth re-entering the world for.
Dandelion + Leo Dylan + Myles Edward live at The Louisiana, Bristol
Sell out warning! How do the Cellar Door team have time to sleep between these unreasonably stacked line-ups?! You lucky weirdo-rock goblins, wrap your ears around: experimental folk-pop whimsy from Truthpaste, The Slow Country’s swooning neo-Heartland indie, Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn’s hypnagogic rock loveliness, and ramshackle 60s-style singer-songwriting from Scuttlers frontman Myer U Clark. Sublime!
Truthpaste + The Slow Country + Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn + Myer U Clark / Multi-media Art Exhibiton
Another year, another big Louisiana blow-out from the Brek Recs crew! Keep yr peepers peeled for the line-up drop – til then expect the usual cocktail of label darlings serving indie/alt/slacker rock shredders, surprise covers and end-of-year mischief til the wee hours.
NEW YEAR'S EVE AT THE LOOOUUUIIS
Final face-ripper of 2025 courtesy of Gnasch’s NOLA-flecked corruption, Priest Crippler’s heinous anti-clergy deathgrind, Docile’s belligerent street thrash, and Życie’s ear-bleeding sludge doom. You can’t go wronger for £4, this is live-giving filth FFO: Wormrot, Iron Monkey, Grief, Pest Control, Knoll.
An evening of relentless Doom, Sludge, Grind, & Crust