The Golden Lion

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.

What's On At The Golden Lion

OVERTHRUST , OBNOXIOUS CONCOCTION & more at The Golden Lion
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hardcore-punk doom metal sludge metal death metal thrash metal
Taynee Lord at The Golden Lion
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singer-songwriter country country rock
Row of Ashes 'Tide into Ruin' album launch at The Golden Lion
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noise alternative metal post-hardcore sludge metal progressive metal
MUTILATED JUDGE/ POTHOLE/ BLIND TO THE BARS/ AMPHETAMINE ONANISM at The Golden Lion
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punk metal hardcore-punk noise sludge metal
Rust x Mile End at The Golden Lion
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punk metal hardcore-punk post-hardcore
SARRAM / SHE THE THRONE / MONIKA BADLY / KIM ORGANCHRIST at The Golden Lion
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experimental noise doom metal industrial drone
BRUCEXCAMPBELL / THUMBSUCKER / ATOMÇK / PRIEST CRIPPLER / LOACH at The Golden Lion
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punk metal hardcore-punk noise sludge metal
Broken Jaw & Vivaria + Supports at The Golden Lion
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punk metal hardcore-punk alternative metal
Warrior Pope+ Malefic Grip+ Prior Noise+ Perry Frank at The Golden Lion
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noise ambient doom metal sludge metal progressive metal
Buried in Bermuda & Cages For Preachers + Support at The Golden Lion
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metal grunge alternative metal hard rock post-grunge
Hometown Throwdown Tour at The Golden Lion
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alternative rock post-punk pop punk emo
Negative Blast at The Golden Lion
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alternative rock punk post-punk hardcore-punk post-hardcore
PROLAPSE at The Golden Lion
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punk post-punk folk rock garage rock art rock
Blank Atlas x The Last Vinci at The Golden Lion
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alternative rock metal grunge post-hardcore experimental rock

Get a feel for The Golden Lion

Our recent recommendations for 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 and metallic Brummie hxc squad Brassick. Major rager FFO: Dream Nails, Bikini Kill, Punitive Damage, Grandma's House, Vice Squad. Menstrual Tramps / The Mentrual Cramps / Brassick at The Golden Lion.

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. OVERTHRUST , OBNOXIOUS CONCOCTION & more at The Golden Lion.

This isn’t a gig, it’s an 8 band hulking colossus of crushing riffage and guttural bellows. The highlight’s surely the unbeatably brutal grind of hardcore-sludge pack-leaders Mastiff, but doomsday death crust deviants Deathfiend aren’t far behind, nor’s Tumanduumband with their glacial-slow satanic dirges. A relentless cvlt-fest FFO: Full of Hell, Primitive Man, Godflesh, Sunn O))), Celtic Frost, Obituary. Mastiff, Deathfiend, Indica Blues, Tumanduumband, Field Boss, Necronomicunt, Throb, Tharsis

What have we here? Demented hardcore? Dystopic thrashing? Gonzo goth? Eldritch synthwave? This sure ain’t your usual hxc meat-fest; hang onto your shoes Dorothy, you’re about to get your brain smoked. Uncompromising weirdness FFO: Anti Cimex, Warthog, Gag, 45 Grave, Fad Gadget. Ruined virtue (SHEFFIELD), Bleaks (GLASGOW), + support

Anarcho-Speedcore-Euphoria’s Welsh acolyte whips you into a frenzy of distorted cybergoth and digital hardcore alongside Hatewire’s ungodly blackened terrorcore and Sophrosyne’s MIDIeval industro-metal. Hard, fast and dirty creatures FFO: Thunderdome, Atari Teenage Riot, Static-X, Agoraphobic Nosebleed. Speedcore/ Technopunk / Gabber / Blackened digital hardcore & cybergrind!