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.
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Our recent recommendations for The Louisiana
Fresh Bristol blackened hxc outfit Cryptbreaker unleash their debut outing of immortal rot on an unsuspecting Louisiana horde. Necrotic vocals and deathrock riffage peeled away by graveyard-pit beatdowns: this is mighty frighty stuff paired with Cave Walker’s glacial ambient dungeon aesthetics. Battle-jacket-worthy FFO: Celtic Frost, Entombed, Wolvhammer, Raspberry Bulbs, Lustmord.
Cryptbreaker, Thylacine, & Cave Walker at The Louisiana.
Brace yourselves for DSM IV’s gut-punching neo-goth-pop, ft Guy McKnight of noughties psychobilly faves The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. Heavy-hitting alt-anthems channelling Sisters of Mercy meets Sleaford Mods in pure darkwave abandon.
Grey Muzzle presents a spectacular double-headliner!
Properly spellbinding neoclassical, violin-fuelled avant-pop awaits you: a dreamy double billing of LEYA’s celestial and sensual baroque incantations combined with Vanessa Bedoret’s spectral electronic experimentations. Huge FFO: Eartheater, Lafawndah, Sarahsson, claire rousay.
LEYA live at The Louisiana, Bristol.
An absolute paragon of delicate euphoria and emo-tenderness via lo-fi electronica, ambient-folk and hazy pop. No one is doing it quite like autotune crooner Organ Tapes, and the distinctly wistful and romantic sonic world he’s been building for the past decade is a divine testament to this.
X3 artists full of feeling & vocal tenderness
Leaders of the new wave of Brummie heavy ‘stadium doom’ born under the diabolical sign of Sabbath and Maiden. Margarita Witch Cult rip through the 70s proto-metal blues riff rulebook with galloping future-classic choruses destined to lodge themselves eternally in your willing mind. This is a shockingly fresh and vital metal force FFO: Green Lung, Uncle Acid, Truckfighters, Orange Goblin, Sleep.
A night of Heavy Psych Sounds at the Louisiana