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.
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Our recent recommendations for The Louisiana
Three electrifying shredders from the South West & Wales! Peach’s raw noise-grunge tears through the senses: power-sludge with visceral ferocity. In great company with Shlug’s careening rhythms + industrial buzzsaw guitars, and Kill Mirror Image’s psych-inflected jankcore. Big FFO: PJ Harvey, The Jesus Lizard, Pigs x 7, fIREHOSE.
Velvet Echoes and Extra Terrestrial promotions present Live and the Louisiana PEACH with Shlug and Kill Mirror Image
Intricate & intimate, Skydaddy (aka Rachid Fakhre of Spang Sisters) and live band take timeless Cohen/Reed/Dylan-style singer-songwriting to orchestral heights. A bullseye to the sweet spot between chamber pop and psych folk. FFO: Andy Shauf, Cate Le Bon, Aldous Harding, Cass McCombs.
SKYDADDY live at The Louisiana.
Sell out warning! Independent Venues Week hits the ground running with a loaded Louis takeover! LICE take top billing with their signature blend of twisted riffs & surrealist satire - think Mark E. Smith reborn in an industrial swamp-rock fever dream - alongside the angular freak-folk meets heart-on-sleeve punk of Breakfast Records fave Blood Wizard. Huge FFO: Fat White Family, Pigsx7, Black Midi, King Krule, Ezra Furman.
3 floor Event @ The Louisiana: Lice, Blood Wizrad, Leeches, The New Cut, Eva Penney band
Emotionally wrought sonic terrorism! Morgan Garrett’s a transcendent messiah toting a maniacal mix of ASMR dread, acoustic guitar, gonzo nu-metal and Orange Milk maximalism. With perfect support from ATC industrial gremlins Kelan and Monika Badly, this is unclassifiable weirdness on a knife-edge FFO: Throbbing Gristle, Bela, Shit and Shine, Korn, Klein.
Truly Insane Music On Stage
£5 dark ambient questing awaits you! Cave Walker’s glacial take on dungeon aesthetics feels like a lost Secret Stairway x Biosphere collab unearthed from the clutches of a frozen bogman. Cosmic oblivion FFO: Thomas Köner, Deathprod, Lustmord, Klaus Schulze, Cold Spring.
An evening of ambient, noise, and experimental