The Louisiana

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.

What's On At The Louisiana

Band Together For Palestine at The Louisiana
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alternative rock folk grunge post rock post-punk
Sunglasz Vendor at The Louisiana
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alternative rock art rock emo
Ejector Seat at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie rock post-grunge rock
Myer U Clark - Tinderbox Album Release at The Louisiana
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folk freak folk indie folk singer-songwriter
The False Idols Headline Show at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie rock progressive rock psychedelic rock rock
Good Flying Birds at The Louisiana
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art rock indie pop indie rock lo-fi exhibition
DOGSBODY at The Louisiana
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alternative rock grunge indie pop indie rock shoegaze
Villagerrr at The Louisiana
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MIXED ALT ROCK NIGHT at The Louisiana
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alternative rock emo indie rock post-punk progressive rock
EERA + MY PRECIOUS BUNNY at The Louisiana
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alternative pop singer-songwriter
ROOMS I - WHERE IT BEGINS at The Louisiana
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ambient folk indie rock rock
Xav Clarke at The Louisiana
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indie rock lo-fi pop rock psychedelic rock
Hereford Takes Over Bristol Day One at The Louisiana
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punk rock grime hardcore-punk
FLUMP at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie folk indie rock
Sarah Tonin and the Whore Moans plus special guests B_Js at The Louisiana
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alternative rock electronic post-punk punk
The Overmorrow at The Louisiana
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folk folk rock folk-pop psych soft rock
Index for Working Musik at The Louisiana
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alternative rock art rock experimental garage rock post-punk
FreeFall. w/ Smiling Politely and Indigo South at The Louisiana
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alternative rock pop punk post-punk punk hardcore-punk
INTRUSIVE at The Louisiana
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alternative pop alternative rock blues-rock grunge hard rock
Barren Sea + Interim + Palemoon at The Louisiana
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alternative rock ambient art rock experimental shoegaze
PAST SELF at The Louisiana
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goth new wave punk synthpop
James Felice and Will Lawrence at The Louisiana
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country rock folk rock
Shallowater + Twine at The Louisiana
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country post-hardcore
Elephant Kind at The Louisiana
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alternative pop alternative rock indie pop indie rock synthpop
Luke Haines at The Louisiana
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alternative rock art rock electronic indie pop indie rock
Glasshouse Red Spider Mite at The Louisiana
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alternative rock experimental rock indie rock lo-fi post rock
Lauren Auder at The Louisiana
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singer-songwriter
GB at The Louisiana
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art rock experimental indie rock experimental pop
Rob Clamp & The Ashmen at The Louisiana
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folk rock folk-pop indie folk
Shaking Hand at The Louisiana
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post rock post-punk
Wendy Eisenberg at The Louisiana
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contemporary jazz folk singer-songwriter experimental pop
Flora Hibberd + Support TBC at The Louisiana
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indie folk singer-songwriter
Jack J Hutchinson at The Louisiana
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alternative rock blues-rock classic rock hard rock rock
ZOH AMBA at The Louisiana
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blues-rock experimental folk jazz singer-songwriter
Year of the Dog at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie pop indie rock ska soul
Unbelievable Truth at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie rock
John Mouse at The Louisiana
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alternative pop electronic indie pop

Get a feel for The Louisiana

Our recent recommendations for The Louisiana

Get into the long line to join pôt-pot’s eerie motorik dream: a breathing harmonium drone rock nebula, rolling forward in rhythmic lockstep through walls of garage-psych guitar fuzz and sardonic vocal haze. It’s a 21st century Nuggets-worthy parade FFO: Neu!, Spacemen 3, Ulrika Spacek, Stuck, Good Flying Birds. Lisbon/Ireland based psych rock & kosmische

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.