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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punk
post-punk
hardcore-punk
post-hardcore
drone
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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
— The Golden Lion
punk
metal
hardcore-punk
Get a feel for The Golden Lion
Our recent recommendations for The Golden Lion
Rare AF visitation from 20 year matured LA psychobilly institution Rezurex: Danzig-grade horror punk howls, double bass-slappin’ ballistics and amphetamine Chuck Berry licks, all served with a Chicano twist. Day of the Dead deathhawks and leopard print action inside FFO: Nekromantix, Mad Sin, Tiger Army, Ghoultown, Hillbilly Moon Explosion.
Rezurex latin infused Psychobilly band from Hollywood, California, USA
Too fast to live and too young to die, Sharp Noodle implodes in an all-day display of face-ripping sonic torture ft. Victim Unit’s scathing queer cyber-grind, Junkie Kut’s distorted cybergoth / anarcho-speedcore, sheet metal noise rap from Nailbreaker + more. 4 years deep, we can’t think of a more reliable role model for the silly, scary, speedy side of outsider phreak muzack – rest in power!
The final nightmare - industrial/ speedcore/ cyber grind / noise core
A four-headed cosmic blunting morphs the Golden Lion into a bong-hazed desert, littered with the ruins of guitar-shaped spaceships and airbrushed fantasies. You must trudge this terrain to the epicly heavy sounds of Dead Lettuce’s harmonica-drenched stoner-fuzz and the acid-fried biker riffage of Motorik Road Trip. ‘Tis a monolithic mission FFO: All Them Witches, Kyuss, Sleep, Mars Red Sky.
DEAD LETTUCE / MOTORIK ROAD TRIP / BLUDWYRM / THARSIS
A-Sun Amissa and Lauren Mason unite sound and word with divine reverence and personal immediacy. Mutating guitar tones and reverberant drones create a shifting, glacial landscape for Mason’s intimate poetry in a stunning live exorcism FFO: Stars of the Lid, Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS, Sigur Ros, Fennesz.
A night of Drone and Noise
Stacked 8-band scuzz assault with monolithic, bleary-eyed Cardiff stoner doom icons Sigiriya. Revel in the cosmically heavy riffage alongside Field Boss’ agricultural dirge rock, pulverizing bass-and-drums doom-core duo Peacelily + Mr Sharp Noodle's Lazurus-like shoegaze resurrection show Thinking With Sand. Just what the ear doctor ordered FFO: Acrimony, Bong, Grandma's House, Unsane, Isis, MBV.
One last Sharp Noodle noiserock all dayer!