The Louisiana

Cellar Door take on IWD with their patented music and visual artistry megastack! Ziplock lead the charge with thunderous Windmill scene-launched electropunk, alongside head-melting noisegaze from Speedial, Horsefair’s potent post-rock convulsions, and Limited Ltd’s muscular punk stylings + a basement-stuffed exhibition of local artists. International Women's Day Special < 3

Wistful local jangle, sprung up from members of Bingo Fury, Belishas and Goat Girl: The Cindys are a murky, melodic breath of fresh air, well-steeped in the Dunedin sound. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: bring back earnest guitar bands!!! Ones to watch FFO: Teenage Fanclub, The Beths, Beat Happening, The Pastels, The Magnetic Fields. The first hometown headline from the Bristol indie heroes

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 + Shaking Hand + Little Grandad + Blue Bayou + The Marlarkey + Multi-media exhibition in the cellar

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