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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experimental rock
alternative rock
post-punk
art rock
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progressive house
breakbeat
house
uk garage
electro
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experimental rock
alternative rock
indie rock
post rock
experimental
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indie rock
post-punk
anti-folk
folk
singer-songwriter
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post-hardcore
post-punk
experimental
noise
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metal
post-hardcore
hardcore-punk
punk
sludge metal
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experimental rock
hard rock
psychedelic rock
stoner rock
alternative rock
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alternative pop
indie pop
lo-fi
uk garage
indie rock
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punk
experimental
drone
industrial
noise
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experimental
industrial
noise
lgbtq+
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post-hardcore
hardcore-punk
punk
doom metal
noise
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experimental rock
progressive rock
psychedelic rock
prog rock
post rock
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metal
post-hardcore
hardcore-punk
punk
post-punk
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hardcore-punk
punk
noise rock
sludge metal
noise
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post-hardcore
hardcore-punk
punk
post-punk
noise rock
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alternative metal
soundtrack
thrash metal
metal
doom metal
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alternative pop
indie folk
indie pop
indie rock
post-punk
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indie pop
pop rock
pop
alternative rock
indie rock
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hip hop
rap
comedy
stand-up comedy
festival
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Our recent recommendations for Exchange
Sell out warning! You’ve lost years of your life as Doomguy, saving the world repeatedly from Cyber Demons with absolutely no thanks from anyone. Now relive the trauma IRL with the UK’s only Doom tribute act playing those loading screen classics amid other franchise-friendly metal bands + gorey visuals and playable OG Doom machines.
Video Game Tribute Band at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Get yer fill of scuzzy DIY punk across three days at Red Lion, Exchange and Moor Beer… the Punx return with Crass-approved anarcho legends Zounds alongside queercore heroes The Menstrual Cramps, Welsh skate-thrashers Pizzatramp, riot grrrl ragers Pussy Liquor + looooads more TBA.
Bristol Punx Picnic 2025 - Saturday at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Torrential powerviolence, thy name is Iron Lung. The definitive duo for 50 second crust whiplashes and deranged sludgecore return after a decade’s silence, and it’s kinda a big deal! Plus the sandpaper abrasion of Bad Breeding’s hxc death-knell, cos Shitty Futures would never short-change ya. Historic FFO: Iron Lung Recs, Man Is the Bastard, Despise You, Dystopia, Spazz, Gag, Bib.
IRON LUNG , BAD BREEDING, HEZ and MONOLITHIAN at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Japanese power-poppers Shonen Knife were once Cobain-beloved cult faves bringing girl group sunshine to an era of sour-faced grunge hegemony. These days they’re a 40-year-strong bona fide institution, with a sprawling back catalogue of idiosyncratic rock covers and bubblegum punk bops. Timeless, unstoppable! FFO: The Muffs, The Ramones, Otoboke Beaver.
Shonen Knife at Exchange.
Enter the trance state that only kraut-assisted heavy psych and ritualised doom can bring. Bonnacons of Doom wrestle with a cvlt-like sound: epic, shamanic, electric, and ancient. Hands down one of the best bands on Rocket Recs (and we do NOT say that lightly). Potentially life-changing FFO: Gnod, Föllakzoid, Messa, Codex Serafini, Gang Gang Dance.
Bonnacons of Doom at Exchange.