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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disco
alternative pop
electronic
funk
post-punk
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funk
jazz
soul
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post-hardcore
post-punk
punk
rock
hardcore-punk
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alternative pop
folk
folk rock
indie folk
singer-songwriter
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punk
thrash metal
metal
hardcore-punk
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post-punk
punk
noise
metal
hardcore-punk
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post-hardcore
post-punk
punk
lgbtq+
hardcore-punk
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alternative metal
alternative rock
grunge
hard rock
metal
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jazz
rock
metal
hardcore-punk
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Our recent recommendations for The Golden Lion
Sell out warning! WHOA-OHHHHH!! Béton Armé flips the Shitty crowd into a cider-soaked punk gang choir with their timeless Oi-powered earworms. No French needed, this is writ in the universal language and it’s catchier than the plague. Mad bonus points for Dark Thoughts’ 50-second amphetamine bubblegum power-punk – the real deal FFO: Syndrome ’81, Nabat, Descendents, Mean Jeans.
BETON ARME and DARK THOUGHTS plus supports at The Golden Lion.
Sell out warning! Ritual psych, widescreen folk horror and mystical, droning doom - Smote are gonna clear new pagan pathways of heaviness in the megalithic corridors of your mind. With Scathing God and The New Bristol Shakers freshly freed from the Avon dungeons for a first time sacrifice, this is an aural bog burial FFO: Earth, Darkher, Grails, torching The Wicker Man.
Vice versa + Feral decay presents Smote, live at the Golden lion
This ain’t your Daddy’s secret Whitehouse vinyl stash! This is harsh queer life noise for the Eggy kids ft. Slow Murder’s pulsating pain industrial, Distraxi’s devotional pedal punishment and hellish shriekage + Beheading’s suicidal sonic collage club. Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays….
A night of misery at 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 delivered straight to your eardrums from Stockholm’s barbaric Arrogante, they're sharing blister plasters with Leicester’s hostile fastcore unit Thumbsucker and beloved batshit grindcore banshees Atomçk. Don’t forget to breathe!
FAST TIMES #1 - Arrogante bringing raw grindcore from Stockholm, Sweden.
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