The Louisiana

The Louisiana

Bristol's most important indie venue.


An essential tour stop for any emerging indie artist the Louisiana is Bristol's prime indie and folk venue. Literally everyone who's anyone has played the Lousiana on their way to the top, and I mean everyone. Muse, Kings of Leon, White Stripes, Bloc Party, Coldplay, The Libertines, The Strokes... all have graced the Lousiana's modest stage.

What's On At The Louisiana

EERA + MY PRECIOUS BUNNY at The Louisiana
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alternative pop singer-songwriter
Charity Gig Night at The Louisiana
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alternative rock classic rock indie rock rock uk garage
ROOMS I - WHERE IT BEGINS at The Louisiana
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ambient folk indie rock rock
Billy Whizz, Grande Valise, The Line Managers at The Louisiana
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post-punk punk ska synthpop
Xav Clarke Album Launch + Big Fright & Milly Upton at The Louisiana
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indie rock lo-fi pop rock psychedelic rock
Hereford Takes Over Bristol Day One at The Louisiana
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punk rock grime hardcore-punk
FLUMP at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie folk indie rock
Traitors at The Louisiana + Who Killed Bunny and Honeyglow at The Louisiana
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alternative rock blues-rock garage rock psychedelic rock
Sarah Tonin and the Whore Moans plus special guests B_Js at The Louisiana
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alternative rock electronic post-punk punk
The Overmorrow at The Louisiana
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folk folk rock folk-pop psych soft rock
Index for Working Musik at The Louisiana
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alternative rock art rock experimental garage rock post-punk
FreeFall. w/ Smiling Politely and Indigo South at The Louisiana
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alternative rock pop punk post-punk punk hardcore-punk
Sunken Smile  + Support at The Louisiana
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alternative rock contemporary jazz indie rock soul
INTRUSIVE at The Louisiana
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alternative pop alternative rock blues-rock grunge hard rock
Barren Sea + Interim + Palemoon at The Louisiana
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alternative rock ambient art rock experimental shoegaze
PAST SELF at The Louisiana
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goth new wave punk synthpop
James Felice and Will Lawrence at The Louisiana
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country rock folk rock
Shallowater + Twine at The Louisiana
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country post-hardcore
Elephant Kind at The Louisiana
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alternative pop alternative rock indie pop indie rock synthpop
Luke Haines at The Louisiana
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alternative rock art rock electronic indie pop indie rock
Glasshouse Red Spider Mite at The Louisiana
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alternative rock experimental rock indie rock lo-fi post rock
Lauren Auder at The Louisiana
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singer-songwriter
GB at The Louisiana
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art rock experimental indie rock experimental pop
Rob Clamp & The Ashmen at The Louisiana
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folk rock folk-pop indie folk
Shaking Hand at The Louisiana
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post rock post-punk
Wendy Eisenberg at The Louisiana
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contemporary jazz folk singer-songwriter experimental pop
Flora Hibberd + Support TBC at The Louisiana
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indie folk singer-songwriter
Jack J Hutchinson at The Louisiana
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alternative rock blues-rock classic rock hard rock rock
ZOH AMBA at The Louisiana
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blues-rock experimental folk jazz singer-songwriter
The Zangwills at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie pop indie rock pop rock rock
Year of the Dog at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie pop indie rock ska soul
Unbelievable Truth at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie rock
John Mouse at The Louisiana
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alternative pop electronic indie pop

Get a feel for The Louisiana

Our recent recommendations for The Louisiana

Rising local oddities The Scuttlers give the Windmill Scene a run for its money, slinging anxious art rock laden with twitchy rhythms and jazzy freeform detours aplenty. Cellar Door’s gonna spoil you as ever, so there’s a hefty helping of killer support from Uncle Junior’s raucous math-noise, Why Horses’ grubby dance-punk and Paper Hats’ post-hardcore tenderness. Stacked! The Scuttlers + Uncle Junior + Why Horses? + Paper Hats

Get into the long line to join pôt-pot’s eerie motorik dream: a breathing harmonium drone rock nebula, rolling forward in rhythmic lockstep through walls of garage-psych guitar fuzz and sardonic vocal haze. It’s a 21st century Nuggets-worthy parade FFO: Neu!, Spacemen 3, Ulrika Spacek, Stuck, Good Flying Birds. Lisbon/Ireland based psych rock & kosmische

Knee-slapping UK roots and Americana from Newcastle’s renegade Rob Heron - ripping through an original repertoire of blues, rockabilly, swing and country like it’s 1955 all over again. Blink and you’ll think it’s Sun Records….. radical revivalism FFO: Pokey LaFarge, The Dead South, Curtis Eller, Sierra Ferrell. Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra: Where rockabilly meets blues, country, swing and soul! Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have been gleefully trampling over genre boundaries for over a decade now, chucking rockabilly, blues, country, swing, soul and more into their musical gumbo, but always sounding mostly just like themselves. Plus support from Bristol's own Country Rockabilly trio, The Swamp Puppies.

Liverpudlians A Lesser Version pilot this month’s edition of Cellar Door, their sharp, emo-fied wall-of-sound shoegaze coming in hot after a Green Man Rising tipping at last year’s fest. Catch ‘em in cahoots with Studio 20’s rising avant-rock, uncanny post-folkers Foot Foot, Norman D Loco’s cavernous slowcore, and the usual glut of basement-dwelling visual artistry. A Lesser Version + Studio20 + Norman D.Loco + Foot Foot + Multi-Media Exhibiton

Delay-drenched psychedelic hardcore assault bursting outta Montreal straight into your earholes. Faze’s acid-damaged, bass-heavy punk feels like GEL covering Spacemen 3 in a wind tunnel – since that’ll probably never happen, catch us front left at the Louie. Scathing stuff FFO: Bib, S.H.I.T., Gag, Destruction Unit, Impalers. Punk has reached the Loui!