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

Kurbside Villain at Exchange
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alternative rock
Knumears at Exchange
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metal emo post-hardcore
Melvins at Exchange
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experimental rock grunge doom metal sludge metal
XApothecaryX at Exchange
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metal hardcore-punk post-hardcore alternative metal
Knox Hill & Friends Birthday Show at Exchange
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hip hop underground hip hop
Open Return at Exchange
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indie rock punk
Pop Punk Heroes at Exchange
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pop punk
Broken Numbers at Exchange
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jazz
Doss + Crop Rot at Exchange
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punk post-punk
Des Demonas at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock
Jeanines, Lightheaded, Darling Buds and Silk Cuts at Exchange
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indie rock post-punk indie pop alternative pop indie folk
QPOC Jam at Exchange
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experimental jam session open mic lgbtq+ neo soul
Blood Dealer at Exchange
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metal dark wave trap music
New Rock City - Friday at Exchange
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punk pop punk hardcore-punk ska punk
God Unknown Records showcase at Exchange
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punk noise doom metal noise rock electro
Bristol Punx for Palestine at Exchange
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punk hardcore-punk
New Rock City - Saturday at Exchange
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punk pop punk hardcore-punk ska punk
Full Spectrum's 5th Birthday at Exchange
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drum and bass jungle jump up happy hardcore
Ben Marwood at Exchange
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folk singer-songwriter punk anti-folk
The Sewer Cats & Lynskey at Exchange
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punk post-punk noise alternative metal electro
Frances Pylons at Exchange
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singer-songwriter experimental pop art pop freak folk
Nerf Herder at Exchange
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alternative rock pop punk skate punk
Bodyjar at Exchange
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alternative rock punk pop punk hardcore-punk post-hardcore
Wolfgang Ayrton Trio at Exchange
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psych hip hop punk grunge sludge metal
PSYCROPTIC at Exchange
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metal death metal
Matt Pless at Exchange
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folk singer-songwriter punk folk rock anti-folk
Someday Fstvl 2025 ft Zack Robertson + More at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock pop indie pop pop rock
Michael Ellis at Exchange
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experimental rock metal
HR at Exchange
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punk reggae
A Passing of Ghosts at Exchange
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folk singer-songwriter folk rock folk-pop anti-folk
Rhizome Weaver, Pain Chain, smr.tni, DJJG X angelangelangel at Exchange
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experimental noise industrial ambient drone
The Britpop Boys at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock pop
Snatch Game + special guests at Exchange
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pop punk lgbtq+ drag
Charlie Barnes at Exchange
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folk indie rock singer-songwriter indie folk
SKIZOPHRENIA  plus supports at Exchange
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punk post-punk hardcore-punk noise garage rock
Dery at Exchange
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punk garage rock
Horsebastard at Exchange
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metal hardcore-punk
Iglu & Hartly at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock pop
Ray Coyote at Exchange
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rock metal garage rock alternative metal progressive metal
Horse Jumper of Love at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock indie pop indie folk shoegaze
Dr Sure's Unusual Practice at Exchange
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punk post-punk noise rock synthpop
Dlina Volny + Guests at Exchange
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alternative rock rock post-punk art rock dark wave
Eli at Exchange
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Falcon Stoop with Alibi and The Roswell Experience at Exchange
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alternative rock grunge garage rock stoner rock hard rock
WE NEED BANDS | Wildcat Boozy + Support at Exchange
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punk metal hardcore-punk
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
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
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
Agriculture at Exchange
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metal
THE SHIPPING FORECAST + TV WIFE at Exchange
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alternative rock punk post-punk grunge noise
LOUD WOMEN FEST BRISTOL at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock rock punk lgbtq+
donGURALesko at Exchange
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rap
Connie Talbot at Exchange
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singer-songwriter
The Hirs Collective x Death Goals at Exchange
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punk hardcore-punk noise post-hardcore noise rock
The Burning Hell at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock pop
Senser at Exchange
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alternative rock rap rap metal
CLIMAXED presents: DOLLSTEP w/ Introspekt at Exchange
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dub techno 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 at Exchange
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lgbtq+ breakbeat dubstep happy hardcore donk
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
RXPTRS at Exchange
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Pretty Addicted at Exchange
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punk metal emo
The Music of Scott Pilgrim - Performed at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock grunge
Esoterica at Exchange
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alternative metal progressive rock progressive metal
GEE TEE x 1-800-Mikey at Exchange
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punk post-punk hardcore-punk garage rock lo-fi
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
Attitude Festival 2025 at Exchange
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alternative rock rock punk grunge emo
Jev at Exchange
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The Hot Damn at Exchange
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alternative rock rock
Chloe Qisha at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock
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
Welly at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock post-punk
Leap at Exchange
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alternative rock rock punk pop punk
GLOIN at Exchange
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Perennial at Exchange
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funk folk soul garage rock
Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer V Professor Elemental at Exchange
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hip hop rap comedy stand-up comedy festival
Cober Mouth at Exchange
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alternative rock punk metal
CHUCK STRANGERS at Exchange
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hip hop rap
Charlie Bennett at Exchange
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singer-songwriter
Taylor More Swiftly at Exchange
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pop punk ska ska punk
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
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
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 at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock indie pop shoegaze
LEONIAN DREAM & The Book Club at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock indie pop indie 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
JERUB at Exchange
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LLNN at Exchange
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metal alternative metal doom metal sludge metal
The Belair Lip Bombs at Exchange
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indie rock
QUEER CXNTRY at Exchange
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lgbtq+ country
Softcult at Exchange
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alternative rock grunge shoegaze
Humour at Exchange
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Safari Fest at Exchange
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punk metal hardcore-punk post-hardcore doom metal

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Big, brash femme/nb-powered mini-fest from our beloved Punka; spewing forth two stages of alternative antics with Lilith Ai’s anti-folk bubblegrunge, blunt as fuck feminist anthems from the Menstruarl Cramps, witchy alt-metallers Hawxx, Orla Bligh’s tender torchsongs + much much more. LOUD WOMEN FEST BRISTOL at Exchange.

One of the shoegaze revival’s finest progenitors, Boston three-piece Horse Jumper of Love return to town, continuing their quietly thrilling evolution of woozy slowcore and languorous indie-rock fuzz. Utterly unmissable FFO: Duster, Codeine, MBV, Wednesday, Hotline TNT. Horse Jumper of Love at Exchange.

High-camp antics await at Punka’s next event! Ever imagined punk versions of RuPaul bops? Well the Snatch Game - the world’s only Drag Race punk rock cover band - makes that a reality. And as if that wasn’t already enough, you’re gonna hear ‘Hot To Go’ and ‘Femininominon’ from Chappell Roan tribute band Pink Phony Club + the Punka house band serving iconic Riot Grrrl covers. Snatch Game + special guests at Exchange.

Refill your Solo cup! Aussie skate-punk veterans Bodyjar emerge from the beer-soaked ecosystem of relentless pop-punk touring for their first Bristol appearance in over a decade. A ferocious high energy live show filled with half pipe hooks FFO: Bad Religion, The Offspring, NOFX, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3. Bodyjar at Exchange.