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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Knee-slapping UK roots and Americana from Newcastle’s renegade Rob Heron - ripping through an original repertoire of blues, rockabilly, swing and country like it’s 1955 all over again. Blink and you’ll think it’s Sun Records….. radical revivalism FFO: Pokey LaFarge, The Dead South, Curtis Eller, Sierra Ferrell.
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra: Where rockabilly meets blues, country, swing and soul! Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have been gleefully trampling over genre boundaries for over a decade now, chucking rockabilly, blues, country, swing, soul and more into their musical gumbo, but always sounding mostly just like themselves. Plus support from Bristol's own Country Rockabilly trio, The Swamp Puppies.
Liverpudlians A Lesser Version pilot this month’s edition of Cellar Door, their sharp, emo-fied wall-of-sound shoegaze coming in hot after a Green Man Rising tipping at last year’s fest. Catch ‘em in cahoots with Studio 20’s rising avant-rock, uncanny post-folkers Foot Foot, Norman D Loco’s cavernous slowcore, and the usual glut of basement-dwelling visual artistry.
A Lesser Version + Studio20 + Norman D.Loco + Foot Foot + Multi-Media Exhibiton
Delay-drenched psychedelic hardcore assault bursting outta Montreal straight into your earholes. Faze’s acid-damaged, bass-heavy punk feels like GEL covering Spacemen 3 in a wind tunnel – since that’ll probably never happen, catch us front left at the Louie. Scathing stuff FFO: Bib, S.H.I.T., Gag, Destruction Unit, Impalers.
Punk has reached the Loui!
Shoun Shoun are launching their 2nd album Drip. Very special guests are Two Tonne Machete & The Brackish.
Now here’s some post-punk we can really believe in: the anthemic sheengaze of The Sound meets Andrew Eldritch-esque vocal melodrama on top of Boy Harsher’s synthwave bounce. Theo Vandenhoff tick all the right boxes in a tantalising testament to Cellar Door’s talent barometer, alongside Neko’s bit-crushed post-kraut groove. Big FFO: John Maus, Drab Majesty, She Past Away, Blonde Redead.
Theo Vandenhoff + Neko + Losing Dogs