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

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
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 metal progressive rock
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 ska punk skate punk
Elysium w/ Midrib, Master 4 B2B Breeza, Interlude & Katie Novo at Exchange
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jungle techno breakbeat happy hardcore
Traitors with The Effectives and Copperdog at Exchange
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blues garage rock shoegaze grunge blues-rock
TRANSEXUAL NOISE JAM at Exchange
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lgbtq+ noise noise rock
Broken Numbers at Exchange
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jazz experimental
MIDAS at Exchange
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funk jazz folk alternative rock punk
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 noise rock post-hardcore
Attitude Festival 2025 at Exchange
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alternative rock rock punk grunge emo
Full Spectrum - Refugee Women of Bristol Fundraiser at Exchange
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drum and bass jungle lgbtq+
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
Felix Ross at Exchange
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Event Cancelled
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
Break for Lovers + Jazzcat + Supermache at Exchange
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alternative rock rock art rock
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
Holy Youth Movement at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock synthpop electro
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 + Monochrome + Essential Formulas 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 Ate 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
Realist A+ Double Take Records: optionlist, novasdemise, vorem ipsum at Exchange
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experimental noise ambient hardcore techno hardstyle
Late Dery: Breaka + Yushh B2B Buckley at Exchange
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experimental techno dubstep
LIQUIDS  plus supports at Exchange
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indie rock punk post-punk hardcore-punk garage rock
Helpless at Exchange
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metal hardcore-punk noise sludge metal thrash metal
Cober Mouth at Exchange
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alternative rock punk metal
NasstyCity at Exchange
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lgbtq+ dancehall afrobeats amapiano gqom
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
OpenHaus @ Exchange at Exchange
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disco disco house house uk garage tech house
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
Matorral and Naomi in Blue at Exchange
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indie rock rock indie pop shoegaze cumbia
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 + BOY WONDER at Exchange
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alternative rock punk psych garage rock
FOE Fest Halloween Show at Exchange
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punk metal
GAY AS F*CK X CROTCH HALLOWEEN at Exchange
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disco disco house techno electro dubstep
Blush - Halloween Edition at Exchange
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drag lgbtq+ cabaret
On Mono at Exchange
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alternative rock post-punk shoegaze post rock
How Long You Been Driving at Exchange
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metal hardcore-punk alternative metal
Speakface at Exchange
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alternative rock grunge noise rock
The Birthday Massacre at Exchange
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experimental post-punk experimental rock industrial
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 freak folk lo-fi
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
I'M DEAD at Exchange
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noise noise rock doom metal
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
Jay Prince at Exchange
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Event Cancelled
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
TheCityIsOurs at Exchange
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metal alternative metal
Echo Culture at Exchange
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indie rock rock
The Orchestra at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock
BTR at Exchange
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metal alternative metal
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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LLNN at Exchange
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metal alternative metal doom metal sludge metal
WICCANS , RANK and MENTAL PRESSURE at Exchange
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punk hardcore-punk garage rock thrash 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 shoegaze grunge
Held under. + Smiling Politely + Atlas Theory + RELOAD at Exchange
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metal hardcore-punk grunge emo post-hardcore
Humour at Exchange
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BELIEVE IN NOTHING / FIELD BOSS / BYFORD DOLPHIN INCIDENT/ DJ JG at Exchange
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metal hardcore-punk noise noise rock sludge metal
The Q at Exchange
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DIE TWICE at Exchange
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alternative rock indie rock
Safari Fest at Exchange
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punk metal hardcore-punk post-hardcore doom metal

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.

They don’t call it gay Xmas for nothing! Rocky Horror screening in the basement, pumping disco, techno and electro from CROTCH + GAY AS F*CK residents, all hosted by the likes of Ernest The Drag King and Celestria… high camp Halloween antics await for all creatures of the night. GAY AS F*CK X CROTCH HALLOWEEN at Exchange.