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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doom metal
sludge metal
progressive metal
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punk
post-punk
noise
post-hardcore
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punk
post-punk
hardcore-punk
post-hardcore
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metal
hardcore-punk
alternative metal
death metal
thrash metal
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hardcore-punk
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Our recent recommendations for The Golden Lion
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.
THRAKIAN / VÁTHOS / ÆL-FIERLEN at The Golden Lion.
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
Can you see Bad Breeding enough? Well, it depends what’s for starters eh? One of the most crucial outfits of the last decades bring their sandpaper-abrasion hxc death-knells to bear again, with Shitty Futures sponsored support from Zenocide’s face-slashingly dark punk metal, Shishu’s primitive feedback pounding and dungeon drone folk from the Bruxism-adjacent unit Say God. Gwarn then...
Punk at the Golden Lion
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