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

Blank Atlas x The Last Vinci at The Golden Lion
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alternative rock metal grunge experimental rock post-hardcore
Gag at The Golden Lion
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punk post-punk hardcore-punk noise post-hardcore
IRAN IRAN / SCIENCE BASTARD / BELLE ROYALS / LINUS FC at The Golden Lion
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post-punk art rock post rock noise rock electronic
Chocolate Starfish Limp Bizkit Tribute Act at The Golden Lion
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alternative metal pop rock rap metal
SNÜFF, Joined by Break for Lovers & Who Killed Bunny? at The Golden Lion
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indie rock pop punk art rock garage rock soft rock
The Grey + Row of Ashes + Ogives Big Band at The Golden Lion
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alternative metal noise doom metal progressive metal sludge metal

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Our recent recommendations for The Golden Lion

An unruly night of noise and invention! Iran Iran’s chonky instrumental girth, Science Bastard’s caustic post-punk bite, Belle Royals’ feral two-piece assault, and an album launch for Mr Sharp Noodle’s noise-pop project Linus Fitness-Centre. Cheap thrills FFO: No Age, Empath, Lightning Bolt, ISIS. IRAN IRAN / SCIENCE BASTARD / BELLE ROYALS / LINUS FC at 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, and 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. "I Wonder When They're Going To Destroy Your Face" Tour

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 bring Greek folk fire to the UK—ancient Thracian rhythms meet raw energy in a dance of tradition and defiance.

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, EMPIRE OF DUST, AT WAR WITH THE SUN + NECRONOMICUNT @ The Golden Lion