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
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alternative rock
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indie rock
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indie rock
post-punk
art rock
trip hop
freak folk
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punk
post-punk
hardcore-punk
pop punk
skate punk
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singer-songwriter
indie rock
indie folk
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alternative rock
experimental rock
pop rock
prog rock
soft rock
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blues
country
swing
rockabilly
new orleans blues
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rock
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classic rock
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Get a feel for The Louisiana
Our recent recommendations for The Louisiana
Wistful local jangle, sprung up from members of Bingo Fury, Belishas and Goat Girl: The Cindys are a murky, melodic breath of fresh air, well-steeped in the Dunedin sound. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: bring back earnest guitar bands!!! Ones to watch FFO: Teenage Fanclub, The Beths, Beat Happening, The Pastels, The Magnetic Fields.
The first hometown headline from the Bristol indie heroes
Forget yr single-minded Saint Valentine’s devotion, this one’s an orgiastic 5 bander across the kaleidoscopic alt/art rock spectrum, led by psychedelic octet Big Long Sun – a genre-bending delight FFO: Arthur Russell, The Flaming Lips + Of Montreal. Add in Shaking Hand’s swooning post-rock and baroque pop lushness from Blue Bayou… and you’ve got a love-in for the ages.
Big Long Sun + Shaking Hand + Little Grandad + Blue Bayou + The Marlarkey + Multi-media exhibition in the cellar
Bristol’s own Spin Class showcase their arid psych-prog in a desert cocktail of sticky melodies and overcooked guitar amps. Alongside them, Doomsday Orchestra sketch an afterworld of glowing 80s synth debris, while The Kruds play raw and unpolished garage tunes. Sun-blasted psychedelic grit FFO: Pallbearer, Moonstone, Baroness, The Lunar Effect.
Garage Rock at the Louisiana
Up-n-coming bedroom pop to soundtrack your sadboi Jan! Dandelion’s stripped-back, heart-on-sleeve confessionals sound like a hushed collab between Christian Lee Hutson, The Sundays and Snail Mail – slow-burn storytelling gorgeousness, well worth re-entering the world for.
Dandelion + Leo Dylan + Myles Edward live at The Louisiana, Bristol
Sell out warning! How do the Cellar Door team have time to sleep between these unreasonably stacked line-ups?! You lucky weirdo-rock goblins, wrap your ears around: experimental folk-pop whimsy from Truthpaste, The Slow Country’s swooning neo-Heartland indie, Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn’s hypnagogic rock loveliness, and ramshackle 60s-style singer-songwriting from Scuttlers frontman Myer U Clark. Sublime!
Truthpaste + The Slow Country + Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn + Myer U Clark / Multi-media Art Exhibiton