The Louisiana

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 at The Louisiana.

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

A one-off transmission from the singular Litronix, last seen supporting BEAK>’s farewell run, now helming Invada’s suitably experimental Xmas special. In character as a Big Pharma-hijacked 1940s android preacher, he’ll be beaming krautrocky avant synth-pop at a wide-eyed Louisiana congregation; imagine a Silver Apples, Suicide, SFA + Neu mash-up delivered by a sermonising cyborg (if you dare). Litronix (Only UK Show) + Lewis Floyd Henry with DJ sets from Billy Fuller and Charlie Romijn

Biiiig find for fans of the Windmill scene avant-garde as breakout Belfastian noise boys Stratford Rise take the wheel for the latest Cellar Door. Jostling in the backseat: warm-blooded power-emos Pushbike, grubby dance-punks Why Horses, fried dream-rockers New Build and Bristol’s own art pop oddities The Scuttlers, PLUS a multimedia showcase for good measure. Stacked! Stratford Rise + Pushbike + Why Horses? + Newbuild + Scuttlers