Exchange

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.

What's On At Exchange

BOOTLICKER , GIMIC, N.F.U.E., URINE MASK and GORAM at Exchange
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punk post-punk hardcore-punk garage rock post-hardcore
To The Grave at Exchange
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metal
Nothing Concrete at Exchange
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funk folk swing afrobeat cabaret
Let's Swim Get Swimming at Exchange
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alternative rock emo experimental rock progressive rock
Ducks Ltd at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock
Resusci Anne + Zoe Myrna at Exchange
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folk experimental folk rock theatre
Woermhole Is this it? Release show at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock grunge psychedelic rock
The Leylines at Exchange
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folk rock
Kusanagi at Exchange
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post rock
Smoke Over Elsewhere at Exchange
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metal progressive metal
Calvaria at Exchange
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alternative rock metal alternative metal
Iris at Exchange
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alternative rock post-punk psychedelic rock
Turn of Phrase at Exchange
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punk hardcore-punk post-hardcore
Agriculture at Exchange
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metal
Ladye + Support at Exchange
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indie rock shoegaze
TENSION + DEAD NAME + TV WIFE + PUBLIC BURNING at Exchange
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punk post-punk hardcore-punk
LOUD WOMEN FEST BRISTOL at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock rock punk lgbtq+
NasstyCity at Exchange
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lgbtq+ dancehall afrobeats amapiano gqom
donGURALesko at Exchange
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Event Cancelled
rap
Connie Talbot at Exchange
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singer-songwriter
Prompter at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock punk shoegaze art rock
The Hirs Collective x Death Goals at Exchange
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punk hardcore-punk noise post-hardcore noise rock
Taipan at Exchange
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The Burning Hell at Exchange
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pop alternative rock indie rock
Silverburn at Exchange
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punk metal hardcore-punk alternative metal
Senser at Exchange
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alternative rock rap rap metal
CLIMAXED presents: DOLLSTEP w/ Introspekt at Exchange
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lgbtq+ dub uk garage 140 dubstep
Horses on The Beach x Long Tonic x Eil Marchini at Exchange
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funk folk indie rock blues hip hop
SiDE EFFECTS Vol. 2: kors k, We Rob Rave, zeroth, EL-ZE, JAKAZiD & DJ SARIA at Exchange
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lgbtq+ breakbeat dubstep donk happy hardcore
Donuts Hole at Exchange
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metal alternative metal
Light The Cannons at Exchange
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alternative rock
Don't Worry at Exchange
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indie rock punk pop punk
Sidestep at Exchange
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punk metal hardcore-punk thrash metal
Jetski at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock pop punk emo post-hardcore
Pretty Addicted at Exchange
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punk metal emo
RXPTRS at Exchange
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Enter The Jungle at Exchange
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jungle breakbeat
An afternoon of Dilla at Exchange
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hip hop alternative hip hop underground hip hop
The Music of Scott Pilgrim - Performed at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock grunge
Music In Support Of at Exchange
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alternative rock metal art rock grunge progressive metal
Moxie Dolls + YŪNGOLD + Bad News First at Exchange
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alternative rock punk post-punk shoegaze
Martyrs Saint at Exchange
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metal alternative metal
Esoterica at Exchange
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alternative metal progressive rock progressive metal
Indecision at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock rock post-punk
Her Head's On Fire + Back Teeth + EATU at Exchange
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alternative rock rock post-hardcore
Sarah Tonin and the Whore Moans at Exchange
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punk lgbtq+ hardcore-punk
Cat Flap at Exchange
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punk post-punk metal grunge
Ain’t, Opal Mag, Nobody’s Dad at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock post-punk
Jaya The Cat at Exchange
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punk reggae ska skate punk ska punk
Elysium @ Exchange at Exchange
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electronic jungle techno breakbeat happy hardcore
Traitors with The Effectives and Copperdog at Exchange
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blues shoegaze garage rock grunge blues-rock
Entropic Rot at Exchange
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metal hardcore-punk alternative metal sludge metal
GEE TEE x 1-800-Mikey at Exchange
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punk post-punk hardcore-punk garage rock lo-fi
Stargirrl at Exchange
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rap electronic grime
Michael Cera Palin at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock punk emo post-hardcore
Loving at Exchange
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folk psych
MASQUERADER at Exchange
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punk post-punk hardcore-punk post-hardcore noise rock
Attitude Festival 2025 at Exchange
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alternative rock rock punk grunge emo
Big Trousers at Exchange
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rock punk post-punk
Jev at Exchange
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PHWOAR at Exchange
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indie rock garage rock
The Hot Damn at Exchange
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alternative rock rock
Chloe Qisha at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock
Strange New Places at Exchange
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punk lgbtq+ indie pop folk rock anti-folk
Skating Polly at Exchange
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punk pop punk
Ogbert the Nerd at Exchange
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indie rock emo post-hardcore
Flint Moore at Exchange
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alternative rock progressive rock
Welly at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock post-punk
Zac Lawrence at Exchange
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indie rock singer-songwriter post-punk
Leap at Exchange
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alternative rock rock punk pop punk
PISS at Exchange
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GLOIN at Exchange
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Life In Mono + Support at Exchange
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alternative rock rock post rock prog rock
Perennial at Exchange
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funk folk soul garage rock
Who Are All The Crayons at Exchange
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alternative rock folk rock indie folk folk-pop
Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer V Professor Elemental at Exchange
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hip hop rap comedy stand-up comedy festival
Helpless at Exchange
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metal hardcore-punk noise sludge metal thrash metal
LIQUIDS  plus supports at Exchange
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indie rock punk post-punk hardcore-punk garage rock
Cober Mouth at Exchange
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alternative rock punk metal
Adults at Exchange
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Lovataraxx at Exchange
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punk post-punk dark wave electro
CHUCK STRANGERS at Exchange
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hip hop rap
Aqualine at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock rock psych shoegaze
Charlie Bennett at Exchange
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singer-songwriter
Whatever Forever - Midwest Emo, Pop Punk, Emo Revival + More at Exchange
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alternative rock pop punk emo post-hardcore skate punk
Taylor More Swiftly at Exchange
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pop punk ska ska punk
Nature Trip at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock punk metal shoegaze
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs Fstvl 2025 at Exchange
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alternative rock punk pop punk emo post-hardcore
Bug Hunter and The Narcissist Cookbook at Exchange
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folk alternative rock indie rock singer-songwriter anti-folk
Alien Chicks at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock post-punk noise rock
Moon Reaper at Exchange
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metal doom metal sludge metal
The Vintage Caravan at Exchange
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rock sludge metal classic rock stoner rock
Dead Air at Exchange
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alternative rock punk
GHOSTWOMAN at Exchange
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alternative rock psych punk garage rock
FOE Fest Halloween Show at Exchange
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punk metal
On Mono at Exchange
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alternative rock post-punk shoegaze post rock
Speakface at Exchange
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alternative rock grunge noise rock
The Birthday Massacre at Exchange
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experimental post-punk industrial experimental rock
Wombo at Exchange
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indie rock experimental post-punk art rock post rock
Penny and Sparrow at Exchange
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folk indie rock folk rock
CIEL + ZIGGY 2000 at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock indie pop shoegaze
Karen / Davey Woodward and The Winter Orphans at Exchange
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indie rock indie pop folk-pop
Party Dozen at Exchange
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noise noise rock
LEONIAN DREAM & The Book Club at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock indie pop indie folk
AGABAS at Exchange
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jazz contemporary jazz metal hardcore-punk death metal
George Gadd at Exchange
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folk singer-songwriter anti-folk
Two Day Coma at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock folk rock
The Orchestra at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock
Sterling Press at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock psych post-punk
Dry Socket at Exchange
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punk metal hardcore-punk noise
Clickbait at Exchange
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post-punk
JERUB at Exchange
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Get a feel for Exchange

Our recent recommendations for Exchange

Sell out warning! Enigmatic New York singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson brings her latest batch of catharsis - spanning motherhood, heartbreak, and hard-won clarity - to an intimate subterranean show in the Exchange’s newly refurbed basement. Trauma processing as songwriting FFO: Torres, S.G. Goodman, Hand Habits, boygenius. Laura Stevenson at Exchange.

Portland’s latest scathing hardcore attack on the human disease, with Dani’s raging raw banshee vocal delivery leading a full-on assault on all senses. Please get this upgraded to the main room!?!? Unmissable, undiluted fury FFO: Gimic, Paint It Black, Gel, Spy, Punitive Damage, Buggin. Dry Socket at Exchange.

Sell out warning! Louisville indie rock three-piece Wombo return to Bristol. Step into their murky, cavernous, post-punk-tinted haze, where cyclical basslines and combative drums shape slow-stalking tonal landscapes for Sydney Chadwick’s turbulent lyrics. Essential FFO: Truth Club, Dummy, Just Mustard, Water From Your Eyes. Wombo at Exchange.

Calling all fuzz-fiends! On Mono returns with a second full-frontal blast of post-punk, shoegaze, and alt chaos. Noir-punk wrecking crew Grandma’s House headline the two-stage Exchange takeover - a wall-to-wall delirium featuring Bureau De Change, DYE, WYR, and more TBA. Buy-on-sight FFO: Witching Waves, Dry Cleaning, Enola Gay, Just Mustard. On Mono at Exchange.

A rare matinee assembly of chaotic earnestness! New Jersey’s cult emissaries of emo revival, Ogbert the Nerd make their UK debut this year, unleashing a maelstrom of raw kinetic fervour at Exchange. Mega FFO: Algernon Cadwallader, Prince Daddy & the Hyena, Snowing, Record Setter. Ogbert the Nerd at Exchange.