The Louisiana

Forget yr single-minded Saint Valentine’s devotion, this one’s an orgiastic 5 bander across the kaleidoscopic alt/art rock spectrum, led by psychedelic octet Big Long Sun – a genre-bending delight FFO: Arthur Russell, The Flaming Lips + Of Montreal. Add in Shaking Hand’s swooning post-rock and baroque pop lushness from Blue Bayou… and you’ve got a love-in for the ages. Big Long Sun - Valentine's Special at 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