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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alternative rock
punk
grunge
emo
shoegaze
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alternative rock
indie rock
garage rock
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experimental
post-punk
noise
industrial
goth
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punk
post-punk
hardcore-punk
post-hardcore
garage rock
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experimental
drum and bass
techno
dubstep
hardcore techno
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pop
punk
post-punk
indie pop
pop punk
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alternative rock
emo
post-hardcore
pop punk
skate punk
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post-punk
noise
experimental rock
country rock
lgbtq+
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alternative metal
post-hardcore
progressive rock
prog rock
progressive metal
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folk
traditional folk
indie folk
drone
anti-folk
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folk
hardcore-punk
emo
post-hardcore
shoegaze
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punk
post-punk
hardcore-punk
post-hardcore
skate punk
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punk
post-punk
hardcore-punk
post-hardcore
skate punk
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indie rock
indie pop
alternative pop
new wave
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alternative rock
rock
grunge
psychedelic rock
Get a feel for Exchange
Our recent recommendations for Exchange
Sell out warning! Shit-splattered Czech goregrind greats come to shower you in punishing riffs, hella catchy cricket vocals and digestive tract samples. What else do you need to know? Big goofy scat metal fun incoming FFO: Spasm, Ahumado Granujo, Impetigo, Dead Infection, Rompeprop.
Gutalax at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Today’s the day the punky bears have their piiiiiiicnic. Get yer Docs filled by DIY scuzz with 20 bands across 2 days including 90s street thrash/trash icons The Restarts, metallic Brummie hxc squad Brassick, treasured anti-fascist Valleys Oi brigade The Oppressed, Zero Again’s potent stenchcore + loads more.
Bristol Punx Picnic 2026 - Day Two at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Today’s the day the punky bears have their piiiiiiicnic. Get yer Docs filled by DIY scuzz with 20 bands across 2 days including 90s street thrash/trash icons The Restarts, metallic Brummie hxc squad Brassick, treasured anti-fascist Valleys Oi brigade The Oppressed, Zero Again’s potent stenchcore + loads more.
Bristol Punx Picnic 2026 - Day One at Exchange.
A haunted jukebox of gnarled noise and unsettling noir-pop: Grubbing’s string-shot mutant discordance is pure Gilla Band x Velvet Underground with the menace dialled to max; Lynchian dream siren Patsy Delve delivers reverb-drenched post-doo-wop; and Group Sounds disintegrate in real time via absurdist psych-fuzz freakouts. More New Weird Bristol pls!
Grubbing, Patsy Delve, Group Sounds at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Olympia, WA’s DIY folk-punk maximalists Pigeon Pit storm Exchange with jittery, anxious romance. Frontwoman Lomes Oleander’s ragged lyrical intimacy rides banjo, fiddle, and acoustic guitar in a frenzy of house-show culture honky-tonk chaos FFO: Bright Eyes, Home Is Where, Radiator Hospital, Violent Femmes.
Pigeon Pit at Exchange.