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
metal
hardcore-punk
thrash metal
skate punk
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alternative rock
punk
post-punk
hardcore-punk
post-hardcore
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hardcore-punk
doom metal
sludge metal
drone
stoner rock
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punk
post-punk
folk rock
art rock
garage rock
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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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indie rock
pop punk
art rock
garage rock
soft rock
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noise
alternative metal
doom metal
sludge metal
progressive metal
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Our recent recommendations for The Golden Lion
Sell out warning! The PNW’s definitive slice of hxc gristle lands on your plates for the first time in 5 years, gobble it up children! Delay-drenched nihilism distilled into ugly AF mid-tempo sludgeries... Gag want war, no doubt you’ll give it to them. No-brainer: FFO: Iron Lung Recs, Poison Idea, Bib, Warthog, Spy, No Trend.
Gag at 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 + Shoun Shoun + Charlie Tipper Rebellion at The Golden Lion.
Greek psych-folk maniacs Thrax Punks crash back into The Golden Lion, weaponising Thracian folk rhythms with punk’s serrated edge to make a sonic Molotov cocktail. Flutes spiral into feedback, riotous drums gallop and collide, and guitars squall into a maelstrom of noise that tears tradition apart...
Thrax Punks at The Golden Lion.
Norwich’s Acid Throne bring some good old-fashioned thrashing sludge to town with mammoth riffs, elemental doom and pendulous grooves. Plus London’s Warpstormer deliver a hulking rager of chipped-tooth aggression and stoner philosophy – try parsing every Warhammer reference! Immense FFO: High on Fire, Crowbar, Green Lung.
ACID THRONE, WARPSTORMER + Support at The Golden Lion.
We’ve not heard face-melting maximum r’n’r noisecore this savage since The Bronx, and that’s not a name we use in vain! Like a mushroom cloud in reverse, Negative Blast suck the cold air outta the room with a suffocating ferocity that’ll leave fans of Black Flag (esp My War), Pissed Jeans, GEL and Cancer Bats on their knees, pledging allegiance. Kiss the new ring!
Negative Blast at The Golden Lion.