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

The Scuttlers at The Louisiana
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post-punk progressive rock experimental rock noise rock
The Slingers at The Louisiana
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rock alternative rock indie rock country rock
Band Together For Palestine at The Louisiana
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folk alternative rock post-punk grunge post rock
Ejector Seat at The Louisiana
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rock alternative rock indie rock post-grunge
Sunglasz Vendor at The Louisiana
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alternative rock emo art rock
The False Idols Headline Show at The Louisiana
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rock alternative rock indie rock psychedelic rock progressive rock
Good Flying Birds at The Louisiana
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indie rock indie pop art rock lo-fi exhibition
DOGSBODY at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie rock indie pop grunge shoegaze
EERA + MY PRECIOUS BUNNY at The Louisiana
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singer-songwriter alternative pop
ROOMS I - WHERE IT BEGINS at The Louisiana
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folk rock indie rock ambient
Xav Clarke at The Louisiana
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indie rock psychedelic rock lo-fi pop rock
Hereford Takes Over Bristol Day One at The Louisiana
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rock punk hardcore-punk grime
Sarah Tonin and the Whore Moans plus special guests B_Js at The Louisiana
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alternative rock punk post-punk electronic
The Overmorrow at The Louisiana
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folk psych folk rock folk-pop soft rock
Index for Working Musik at The Louisiana
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experimental alternative rock post-punk garage rock art rock
PAST SELF at The Louisiana
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punk synthpop new wave goth
Shallowater + Twine at The Louisiana
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country post-hardcore
Elephant Kind at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie rock indie pop alternative pop synthpop
Lauren Auder at The Louisiana
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singer-songwriter
GB at The Louisiana
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experimental indie rock art rock experimental pop
Rob Clamp & The Ashmen at The Louisiana
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indie folk folk rock folk-pop
Shaking Hand at The Louisiana
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post-punk post rock
Wendy Eisenberg at The Louisiana
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folk singer-songwriter contemporary jazz experimental pop
Flora Hibberd + Support TBC at The Louisiana
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singer-songwriter indie folk
Jack J Hutchinson at The Louisiana
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rock alternative rock blues-rock hard rock classic rock
ZOH AMBA at The Louisiana
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folk jazz experimental singer-songwriter blues-rock
Year of the Dog at The Louisiana
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soul alternative rock indie rock indie pop ska
Unbelievable Truth at The Louisiana
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alternative rock indie rock
John Mouse at The Louisiana
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indie pop alternative pop electronic

Get a feel for The Louisiana

Our recent recommendations for The Louisiana

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!

Shoun Shoun are launching their 2nd album Drip. Very special guests are Two Tonne Machete & The Brackish.