After the release of two EPs, one in 2019 and the other in 2020, SUDS have defined the sound of their new music as a combination of inspirations from early 1970s American folk to the Midwest Emo scene.

This is an 18+ event

Love Thy Neighbour

SUDS + Solar Fide

SUDS - My Own Mind

SUDS

Gigs

Bristol

The Louisiana

Communion ONE Presents

Jacob Alon

\+ support

This is a 16+ event

Communion ONE

Jacob Alon

Skydaddy, the moniker of London-born Lebanese/Grenadian artist, Rachid Fakhre, began life in early 2023 as an offshoot of his previous acclaimed project Spang Sisters. Before releasing any music, there was a buzz around the new project in the London scene - 2 weeks before Fakhre released his first single, ‘That Morning’, he toured the UK with his 7-piece backing band supporting Black Country, New Road. Following that, he spent the rest of that year releasing singles - including ‘Tear Gas’ a collaboration with BC, NR’s Tyler Hyde - that eventually became part of his debut mini-album Pilot.

Released on February 2nd of this year, the release quickly garnered Fakhre a reputation of “a modern day chamber folk virtuoso redefining musical narratives” (Still Listening). The songs demonstrated his compositional prowess and ambitious production and arrangements. As Clash wrote, “‘Pilot’ is a reclamation of the multi-instrumentalist’s Lebanese heritage… careening between ambient-jazz sound collages, marathon orchestral codas and oblique confessionals”. Fakhre took his show on the road on a UK-wide headline tour soon after Pilot’s release, selling out shows in Edinburgh, Brighton and Bristol, finishing with a headline at London’s 100 Club.

Skydaddy's forthcoming EP 'Anchor Chains, Plane Motors & Train Whistles' will be out on January 10th. Taken from the mouth of George Bailey of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, the title symbolises a blind faith in technological advancement.

This is an 16+ event (16 & 17s must be accompanied by an adult)

Gravy Train

Skydaddy + Bert Ussher

Skydaddy & Tyler Cryde - Tear Gas

Skydaddy - Tear Gas

Bert Ussher

Skydaddy

Velvet Echoes and Extra Terrestrial promotions present live at the Louisiana a night of high energy post punk, noise and grunge from Bristol, Cardiff and Bath to celebrate independent music week.

PEACH

PEACH are a four piece post punk band from Bristol UK. Taking influence from early Desert Rock, Punk and Grunge ideologies. It's noisy, it's angry, it's honest.

2024 has been a big year for this 4 piece playing shows at 2000 Trees, Arctangent and touring the UK with Sans Froid we welcome them back to Bristol to kick off 2025 with a punch.

SHLUG

The death-coaster that is SHLUG, are the unmusical bone saw of mechanical dissonances and distortions with a dubious and violent soundscape prepared to make your eardrums shatter and bleed.

The noisy cutthroat non barbershop outfit from Cardiff creates an industrial atmosphere that will evoke primal instincts to its captivated audience, turning a venue into a pit of rabid dogs.

KILL MIRROR IMAGE

Fast & Loose Post-Jank Trio

Velvet Echoes Ltd

PEACH Live at The Louisiana 

Peach

Shlug

2025 brings the second Dork Magazine 'Hype List' tour to Bristol. Taking selected artists across the UK for pure Dork infused chaos. Welly are the first act announced, and hit The Louisiana in Feb 2025.

CloseUp Promotions

DORK HYPE LIST TOUR: WELLY

Welly - Soak up the Culture

Welly - Soak Up The Culture

Welly

BUREAU DE CHANGE

Bureau De Change is open for business. Their debut EP “Are You Flirting With Me?” was described as “Four Atonal Anthems that combine blistering musicianship, pulpit polemic, time signature jumping and righteous fury”. Guess what? Not enough Bureau de Change for you, they have ep number two on the way with the release of the first single “Dumb Men” coming early 2025.

The band's recognisable writing style full of sardonic humour and decisive political messaging is carried by their strong feminist undertones, using striking imagery to draw idiosyncratic parallels to the world around them and the romanticised version of femininity. This is juxtaposed by the disjointed musical prowess (or lack of) to create a definitive sense of dissonance. The group has worked together to create a melodic and striking wall of sound that fills your entire body, a band that's strength comes through in their love of performance both live and recorded.

JODIE LANGFORD

Originally a spoken word performer, Jodie Langford turned her talents towards the music industry looking for a wider audience to spread her message and push herself as an artist. She comes armed with her unique voice paired with an incredible ability to turn observations of the world and her own personal experiences into relatable, thought provoking and often funny lyrical content that tackles everything from downing pints, dead-end jobs and the government, to more abstract concepts.

This is a 16+ event under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult).

Bureau De Change + Jodie Langford

Bureau De Change - Shortcut to Destruction

Lazy Day

With My Mind

DHP Presents :

FIRST TIME FLYERS

\+ special guest

Johnny Morgan

DHP FAMILY

DHP Family

First Time Flyers

Johnny Morgan

Being Dead — the Texas-based trio of best friends Falcon B\*tch, Gumball, and Ricky Moto — announce their debut album, When Horses Would Run, out July 14th on their new label home Bayonet Records, and share the lead single/video, “Muriel’s Big Day Off.” When Horses Would Run propels listeners into vivid landscapes: desert planes, dirty basements, lush rolling hills. Being Dead is here to create worlds where we can soak in stories of carefree shoplifters, wayward cowboys, and the final moments of a lonely Buffalo on the range. Merging surf rock, freak pop and frantic punk, Being Dead’s eclectic influences and energetic pull swells on their excellent debut album.

16+ (under 18s to be accompanied by a responsible adult)

Bristol Beacon

Being Dead

Treeland

DHP Presents:

MARY IN THE JUNKYARD

mary in the junkyard is one of the brightest new creative forces in the UK, a young group who blur the lines between leftfield experimentation and moments of melodic storytelling that evoke a vivid sense of place. Having released their Richard Russell-produced debut EP This Old House this past spring via AMF Records, 2024 has proved to be a breakout year for the trio. Hailed as “one of the must-see live acts in London” (The FADER) whose “exhilarating gigs have held their peers in thrall” (NME), the band has sold out shows across the UK and Europe, received critical acclaim from DIY, Dazed, FLOOD, CLASH, and more, and graced the cover of NME. Additionally, Freeman-Taylor features on the forthcoming Everything is Recorded album and makes an appearance in the new “Losing You” video.

This is an 18+ event.

mary in the junkyard

Crosstown Concerts Presents...

Peter Jobson

\+ support tbc

This is an 16+ event ((U18s must be accompanied by an adult))

Crosstown Concerts

Peter Alexander Jobson

Crosstown Concerts Presents...

Big Sleep

\+ support tbc

This is an 16+ event (U18’s accompanied by an adult)

Big Sleep

Action! presents

Jhariah

\+ Pollyanna

Since 2017, 23-year old Brooklyn-based musician and polymath, Jhariah, has been building a thrilling, fiercely original musical universe. People have caught on quickly. Their track “Flight Of The Crows,” from their 2021 EP "ENTER: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO FAKING YOUR DEATH", has racked up 15 million plays on Spotify.

Jhariah’s second LP, “TRUST CEREMONY” is a manifesto of sorts for a new music culture—and it is his most daring, important work yet. TRUST CEREMONY is a brain-expanding, borderless record that fuses dance-punk, emo, prog rock, and hardcore with pop, hip-hop, Latin dance, and more. This bold, brilliant blend of influences soundtracks a Gen-Z odyssey through self-doubt, family conflict, Catholic upbringing, and through it all, a desperate, iron drive to succeed.

“The more I got into writing this album and the more I got to conceptualizing it, it kept getting bigger and grander, and I had all these wild ideas for what I wanted to do,” says Jhariah. “I wanted it to be the most monumental thing in the world.”

It’s Jhariah’s time. Their next record is the start of something new. TRUST CEREMONY is out now.

This is a 16+ event (Under 18s accompanied by an adult)

Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro Live Limited

Jhariah

Flight of the Crows

Pollyanna

Twin Skeletons are ready to show what their bones are truly made of. With their all or nothing approach to putting on a show and their undeniable writing talent, they are looking to make a significant impact within the industry. Combined with their effort to bring the sound of early alt Festival line ups back to the forefront of the alternative scene using their metal inspired coming-of-age sound.

This four-piece skeleton rock outfit formed in Bath in 2022 after Brother/Sister duo James & Phoebe sought out to find the perfect band. After working with Joe & Fred for 2 years their huge Bellamy/Kerr style riffs and overall energy has captivated audiences across the country. This culminated in the four piece mastering their skills and securing the sound that works for them, resulting in ‘Twin Skeletons’ est. September 2023. Their sonically diverse music provides an intriguing and addictive new sound to the current alternative rock scene as it serves a large range from singalong anthems to pop punk verses and metal breakdowns to suit a varied audience.

Their songs combine dark, energetic rock riffs with catchy, hook-filled melodies as well as some compelling electronic sounds, which all make for an incredibly exciting experience, only elevating their live shows.

“Undeniably talented, carving out a place in a crowded market” - The New Age Magazine

“Did You Get What You Wanted? Oh yes, let’s have plenty more please.” - Make It Loud

This is an 16+ event

Gotobeat Ltd

Twin Skeletons

Twin Skeletons - Deadweight

Bristolian honed indie outfit Battery Point headline The Louisiana this March. Be there.

BATTERY POINT + SUPPORT

This is 16+ (U18’s accompanied by an adult 18+)

The Tubs

CROSSTOWN CONCERTS PRESENTS:

Rachael Lavelle

plus Eva May

Rachael Lavelle

Eva May

SJM Concerts Present

Alex Spencer

plus support

16+ Under 18 Accompanied by Adult

SJM Concerts

Alex Spencer

Alex Spencer - Nightmares

SJM Concerts & Communion One Presents

Jack Kane

plus support

This is a 16+ event - Under 18 Accompanied by Adult.

Jack Kane

China Bears

Meet Me in London

Benefits

We're thrilled to be hosting one of our favourite bands - Nap Eyes - for their first ever show in Bristol. We've loved these guys for a long time and their new album 'The Neon Gate' is further proof of their understated genius.

Nap Eyes makes crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Nova Scotian rain. Their songs are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA, brain protein aggregation, and the Earth’s magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia, self-reproach, and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as enigmatic songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order; solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science.

Breakfast Records

Breakfast Records Presents: Nap Eyes

Nap Eyes - Dark Mystery Enigma Bird

Nap Eyes

Gotobeat is excited to team up with The Louisiana, Bristol to welcome Dean Johnson for a very special intimate solo show live on Wednesday 7th May.

For over ten years, Dean Johnson’s rustic tenor and simply strummed acoustic guitar have been perking up ears around the PNW and beyond. Dean has gradually built a devoted fan base — strictly through live performances — singing existential cowboy waltzes, ballads about wishing one could find a way out of heaven, honest confessionals, and other heartbreakers from a unique perspective. His first album, Nothing for Me, Please, was released on May 5th, 2023, on Mama Bird Recording Co.

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