Description

The Swamp Stomp String Band are a raucous and energetic travelling band renowned for their boisterous and bawdy, rough and rowdy, theatrically extravagant performances. They blend up-tempo, old-time music infused with Bluegrass, Country, Americana and practically anything else you might find pouring out of a beer-soaked roadside dive-bar!

There?s everything thing you?d expect; from twangy banjos and chugging guitars to a honky-tonk piano, a thudding double bass, and driving drums. These propel everything from drinking songs that will have the room stomping their feet and raising their flagons of cider, to ballads that will break even the toughest of folk. Play your cards right and you might even get invited for a waltz!

Ribble are two Northern men, a fiddle, a guitar, and a large beard. So far, so what? Well, add in a 90s drum synth, some mighty arrangements of meaty fiddle tunes, some songs, some wrong turns, battle scars earned busking the streets of Salisbury, a barrowload of inane banter and the feeling that your mad rum-soaked uncle is roaring at you to dance on the tables, then you?re getting close to what Ribble offer.

Description

Exchange plays host to shows most nights of the week, and is focused on supporting a wide range of musical projects and creative endeavours. The 250 capacity live room offers an adventurous and diverse program up to seven nights a week. In the daytime the venue is open as a Coffee Shop & Vegan Kitchen. The building is also home to Specialist Subject Record Shop, Joe’s Garage Recording Studio and Active Distribution.

Exchange has hosted performances from a varied array of internally revered artists including The 1975, Four Tet, (the) Melvins, Diplo, Haim, Sick Of It All, Neck Deep, Pup and The Bouncing Souls to name but a few.

From January 2019 Exchange will become a Community Benefit Society, owned and operated by it’s 400+ investors.

72-73 Old Market,

Bristol,

England,

BS2 0EJ.

0117 930 4538