Exchange
Forward thinking live music venue in Old Market.
Since opening its doors to the public in later summer 2012, Bristol's Exchange has proven itself to be a key player in Bristol's live music music scene. With ticketted events almost every night of the week, Exchange plays host to a wide variety of live bands and styles. That said, the venue's musical programming for bands that sit on the heavier side of the fence (post-rock, math rock, psych) is unrivalled elsewhere in Bristol.
The venue is set over two floors with the larger of the two stages upstairs found upstairs. While club promoters are able to run two concurrent soundsystems, gig promoters and all-dayers use the space to sequence bands and provide a constant programme of music.
Doors for live music events at Exchange are typically 7.30pm, while clubnights vary.
The venue is set over two floors with the larger of the two stages upstairs found upstairs. While club promoters are able to run two concurrent soundsystems, gig promoters and all-dayers use the space to sequence bands and provide a constant programme of music.
Doors for live music events at Exchange are typically 7.30pm, while clubnights vary.
What's On At Exchange
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post-hardcore
post-punk
punk
skate punk
hardcore-punk
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alternative rock
emo
post-hardcore
progressive metal
metal
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emo
post-hardcore
shoegaze
sludge metal
hardcore-punk
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post-hardcore
post-punk
punk
metal
hardcore-punk
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alternative rock
garage rock
grunge
rock
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drone
experimental
industrial
spoken word
noise
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indie pop
indie rock
new wave
shoegaze
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art rock
grunge
indie rock
post rock
post-hardcore
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doom metal
psychedelic rock
rock
sludge metal
metal
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drone
experimental
poetry
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alternative rock
noise rock
stoner rock
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alternative pop
indie pop
indie rock
new wave
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alternative rock
indie pop
indie rock
post-punk
rock
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alternative rock
art rock
pop punk
post-punk
punk
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alternative rock
grunge
psychedelic rock
rock
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bluegrass
country
folk
rock
rock-and-roll
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alternative rock
art rock
experimental rock
indie rock
post-punk
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alternative pop
art pop
indie pop
indie rock
singer-songwriter
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alternative rock
emo
pop punk
pop rock
tribute acts
Get a feel for Exchange
Our recent recommendations for Exchange
Sell out warning! Manchester’s peerless renegades of post-punk funk who’ve distilled everything from post-disco to Brazilian jazz into a sound that spawned a generation of bands like the Rapture or Sink Ya Teeth. Sounding revitalised 40 years in, they revisit two stone-cold classic LPs in a no-brainer nostalgiafest FFO Liquid Liquid, ESG, Talking Heads, New Order, !!!, LCD Soundsystem.
A Certain Ratio at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Shit-splattered Czech goregrind greats come to shower you in punishing riffs, hella catchy cricket vocals and digestive tract samples. What else do you need to know? Big goofy scat metal fun incoming FFO: Spasm, Ahumado Granujo, Impetigo, Dead Infection, Rompeprop.
Gutalax at Exchange.
Funeral-appropriate doom-blues dirges, slower than the grave and heavier than what comes after. Wizard Master give dank 70s proto-metal a kick in the spliff-stained teeth with their insatiable occult appetite for morbid fuzz. Easily Italy’s finest FFO: Electric Wizard, Sabbath, Pentagram, Uncle Acid, Church of Misery.
Wizard Master , Mind Burial, Dungeon, Brothers Boon - at Exchange.
Big, brash, women and non-binary powered mini-fest from our beloved Punka, spewing forth two stages of alternative antics with Maria Uzor’s mutant sci-fi pop decadence, otherworldly post-rockers Oh The Guilt, gothic ‘hard-gore’ brooders Disaster Clinic, Hissy Fist’s hefty doom/riot grrl/nu-metal collision + much much much more.
LOUD WOMEN FEST Bristol 2026 at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Your annual dose of Kiyasu-core is nigh! The most deranged, ecstatic, snare drum solo imaginable rolls back into town, emboldened by last year’s mini-fest devotion. Armed only with two sticks and a snare, the esteemed grindcore / free jazz scenester somehow summons rhythmical re-awakenings and moments of pure musical ecstasy in all that witness.
RYOSUKE KIYASU - MATINÉE SHOW at Exchange.