The Golden Lion
One of Bristol's key live music pubs.
Under the same management as the infamous Old Duke pub on Bristol's harbourside, the Golden Lion is another staple live music pub in Bristol.
Live music is served every night of the week except Sundays and entry is always free except for Friday (usually £3). The Golden Lion's listings are typically jazz, funk, blues or folk based, basically their music policy is pretty varied.
The venue can be a great place to catch new projects for established Bristol musicians so it's always worth checking whats on at the Golden Lion. Unlike The Old Duke in Bristol it's a larger pub and usually fairly easy to get a table on weeknights.
Live music is served every night of the week except Sundays and entry is always free except for Friday (usually £3). The Golden Lion's listings are typically jazz, funk, blues or folk based, basically their music policy is pretty varied.
The venue can be a great place to catch new projects for established Bristol musicians so it's always worth checking whats on at the Golden Lion. Unlike The Old Duke in Bristol it's a larger pub and usually fairly easy to get a table on weeknights.
What's On At The Golden Lion
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experimental
hip hop
industrial
noise rock
noise
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alternative rock
goth
indie pop
new wave
post-punk
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doom metal
jazz
punk
noise
hardcore-punk
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alternative metal
death metal
thrash metal
metal
hardcore-punk
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punk
rock
noise
metal
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punk
metal
hardcore-punk
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post-hardcore
post-punk
punk
rock
hardcore-punk
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alternative metal
alternative rock
grunge
hard rock
metal
Get a feel for The Golden Lion
Our recent recommendations for The Golden Lion
From the corpse of Sharp Noodle, Fast Times begs you to say no to false grind with this 4-way offering of undiluted blast worship. Sub 2-minute head-fuckers coming in quicker than lighting from Stockholm’s barbaric Arrogante, sharing blister plasters with Leicester’s hostile fastcore unit Thumbsucker and beloved batshit grindcore banshees Atomçk. Don’t forget to breathe!
Arrogante / Thumbsucker / Atomçk /Sidewound at The Golden Lion.
A UK debut for Soga’s visceral, solidarity-fuelled hardcore, tearing outta CDMX with the coveted Iron Lung seal of approval! Urgent aural warfare against state violence and patriarchal oppression shoulder2shoulder with Bristol’s only punk band Gimic, femme/themme hellraisers Leashed, and Perp Walk-adjacent powerviolence from Mental Pressure. Unbeatable FFO: Los Crudos, The Nurse, Tercer Mundo, Riña.
International hardcore punk on Iron Lung Records
Grueling thrashy street hardcore from the solid gold folds of Muro and the Otro Futuro gang. Ayucuba whip up a storm of speed metal riffage and UK82 bite, in a delicious contrast with the rapturous return of sparkling Belgian powerpop-punks Coeur A L’Index. Shitty Futures ballistics with a side of anthemic twee FFO: Plasmatics, Broken Bones, GISM, Girls At Our Best, En Attendant Ana.
Punk and pop at the pub
Bewitching triple post-metal threat with the mythological sludge stylings of Cardiff favs Thrakian, Romanian gothic overlords Váthos making their UK debut + Æl-Fierlen’s ethereal blackgaze spells. Big one for the dark hearts already enthralled by: ISIS, Cult of Luna, Moonspell, In Flames, Sylvaine.
Rites of Solace
We’ve been boycotting Eurovision out of pure shittery for years! Make sure you’re nowhere near the TV set / phone screen / whatever and are glued to the gobby street punk of 90s heroes The Restarts instead. Your ticket $ goes straight to Playgrounds for Palestine + there’s Defcon Zero’s relentlessly thrashing hxc and Big Head Mode’s swampy post-punk for starters.
Raising funds for Playgrounds for Palestine