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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punk
metal
post-punk
hardcore-punk
thrash metal
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folk
punk
traditional folk
turbo folk
comedy
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post-punk
industrial
synthpop
goth
new wave
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dub
reggae
roots reggae
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experimental
metal
alternative metal
post rock
drone
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house
uk garage
140
bassline
speed garage
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experimental
ambient
noise
alternative hip hop
electronic
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pop
jazz
soul
singer-songwriter
alternative r&b
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alternative rock
pop punk
pop rock
tribute acts
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experimental
metal
noise
industrial
death metal
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indie rock
hardcore-punk
emo
post-hardcore
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folk
country
country rock
bluegrass
rockabilly
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alternative rock
hardcore-punk
experimental rock
noise rock
post-hardcore
Get a feel for Exchange
Our recent recommendations for Exchange
Sell out warning! Beloved Ohio indie-emo quartet Remember Sports bring their ripping alt-pop and sunroof-dropping riffs to town. Big scrappy rave-ups with both goofy earnestness and subtle emotional insight – these are loud anthems for quiet people. Unmissable FFO: Ratboys, Joyce Manor, Alvvays.
Remember Sports at Exchange.
Sell out warning! The shot in the arm blues rock needed. Amythyst makes shimmering Southern Americana instilled with Black power and gay pride; confrontational protest songs mixed with rousingly personal tales of love and anguish, and everywhere Kiah’s jawdropping vocal theatrics. The hottest thing in country blues right now FFO: Valerie June, Shovels & Rope, Emmylou Harris, Rhiannon Giddens.
Amythyst Kiah at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Bristol’s Host Body erupts in a storm of blackened mathcore, Scotland’s Beneath A Steel Sky drape post-metal in soaring crescendos, and London collective IAN pulp sludge, drone, and doom into a full metal platter FFO: Isis, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Emma Ruth Rundle, Cult of Luna.
Host Body, Beneath a Steel Sky, Ian, Helve at Exchange.
Sell out warning! You gotta pay the troll toll to get into this boy’s hole! Exchange hosts a six-piece interactive rock opera adaptation of the canonical Always Sunny musical episode. Expect Dayman choreography, gum spit takes, themed cocktails, a post-show DJ Set, and a raffle with the chance to win a personal serenade.
The Nightman Cometh at Exchange.
Sell out warning! A veritable supergroup of DIY royalty from Tigercats, Martha, Onsind + more, Fortitude Valley CAN and WILL take a frosty mid-January Exchange and turn it into a sun-kissed chamber of deliriously catchy, shimmering indie-pop-punk. Big-time winter blues buster if you love: The Beths, Alvvays, The Lucksmiths, Dressy Bessy, Diet Cig.
Fortitude Valley at Exchange.