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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noise
post-hardcore
alternative metal
sludge metal
progressive metal
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punk
metal
hardcore-punk
noise
sludge metal
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dub
alternative pop
neo soul
trip hop
electronic
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experimental
noise
industrial
doom metal
drone
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punk
metal
hardcore-punk
noise
sludge metal
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punk
metal
hardcore-punk
alternative metal
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punk
post-punk
hardcore-punk
post-hardcore
dark wave
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noise
ambient
sludge metal
doom metal
progressive metal
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metal
grunge
alternative metal
hard rock
post-grunge
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psych
noise
doom metal
stoner rock
drone
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alternative rock
punk
post-punk
hardcore-punk
post-hardcore
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alternative rock
metal
grunge
post-hardcore
experimental rock
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post-punk
art rock
noise rock
post rock
electronic
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Our recent recommendations for The Golden Lion
One of the most underrated UK bands of the 90s, Prolapse revisit their signature spikey compound of driving post-punk, janky krautrock, and sweeping shoegaze, existing in a hallowed space somewhere between The Delgados and The Fall. A big deal in our world, and FFO: Life Without Buildings, Arab Strap, Beta Band.
PROLAPSE at The Golden Lion.
Sampledelic gore-grind noise-aggedon from Bilbao via Sharp Noodles. We doubt you’ve experienced anything like the total sonic destruction of Mutilated Judge in the flesh (well done if you have, you wrong-un’). There’s at least 7 more reasons to attend including Betrayers’ hella crusted doomgrind and plenty of Eggy Tapes-endorsed harsh noise FFO: Napalm Death (duh), Gutalax, Stoma, Avulsed.
MUTILATED JUDGE/ POTHOLE/ BLIND TO THE BARS/ AMPHETAMINE ONANISM at The Golden Lion.
Row of Ashes are bulldozing the Bristol sludge landscape with their hulking Frankenstein sound, stitched together from propulsive noise rock and careening post-hardcore body parts. Witness their frankly frightening evolution in the flesh alongside Opium Lord’s blackened doom tendencies and post-metal titans Urzah. Fucking epic FFO: Mastodon, Will Haven, Unsane, LLNN, Conjurer, Neurosis.
Row of Ashes 'Tide into Ruin' album launch at The Golden Lion.
Triple bill of ass-kicking femme-punk! The Menstrual Cramps’ surely-iconic-by-now Bristol anthems meet Minnesota legends Menstrual Tramps’ red-lined street punk + metallic Brummie hxc squad Brassick. Major rager FFO: Dream Nails, Bikini Kill, Punitive Damage, Grandma's House, Vice Squad.
Mentrual Tramps from Minnesota & The Menstrual Cramps Bristol
Metal is just soooo much more metal when your hometown’s crawling with orthodox Christians. Cue OSDM deviants Overthrust: crazed Botswanan cowboys making seismic growls on the continent since 2008. You’re lucky AF to see them alongside the downright bestial grind of Obnoxious Concoction. Guaranteed brutality FFO: Bolt Thrower, early Sepultura, Witch Vomit, Knoll, Full of Hell.
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