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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post-hardcore
punk
post-punk
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rock
punk
post-punk
noise rock
garage rock
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skate punk
post-hardcore
rock
punk
grunge
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post-hardcore
punk
post-punk
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indie rock
punk
post-punk
garage rock
art rock
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blues-rock
new orleans blues
bluegrass
blues
delta blues
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glam rock
hard rock
psychedelic rock
stoner rock
rock
Get a feel for The Golden Lion
Our recent recommendations for The Golden Lion
Shitty Futures infect the Golden Lion with more snotty hxc than you can shake a sodden battle jacket at. Toronto’s Imploders make a redline amphetamine racket full of erratic hooks and the belligerent weirdness of classic Zero Boys or Angry Samoans. Plus crossover crust dirge from Layback and can’t-see-em-enough scene favs Gimic.
Imploders, Layback, Gimic and Burning Cows at The Golden Lion.
Classic 90s street thrash/trash punkers The Restarts top a Shitty Futures Paddy’s Day whopper with caustic crusts Zero Again, blistering powerviolence from People Eater + much aggro propulsion FFO: Chaos UK, Total Chaos, Born/Dead etc etc.
Playgrounds for Palestine benefit gig
Blistering crossover hxc beatdown from Quebec! Bristol’s in full support with a trio of up-and-coming punk compadres inc. the caustic and chaotic one-man screamo genius, Tension. Essential Golden Lion sweatpit FFO: Cancer Bats, Turnstile, Norma Jean, Hatebreed, Denim & Leather.
Don’t Try (Canada) make their European and Bristolian debut courtesy of Just Another Music Co & Gruesifix
Evil, ethereal rawpunk so chaotic it should be in straightjackets. Fairytale are another blessed appearance from the NYC hxc circuit, here to rob you of your shin-skin alongside Leeds snotters Pleasure. Essential FFO: Anti Cimex, Poison Idea, Adrenalin O.D., Physique, the Wound, Hounds of Hate.
Punk and hardcore at the Golden Lion
Is it just winter or are Shitty Futures getting nastier? Devastating experimentally-minded metalcore / brooding mathcore brutalism from Cruelty meets cathartic post-everything black-metallers Underdark at the Golden Lion for a bleak and pulverising 5 band affair. Essential FFO: Converge, Integrity, Knocked Loose, Deafheaven, Dawn Ray'd, Sadness (the band, but also the feeling).
A night of Hardcore and Black Metal