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The Joiners
Music venue in Southampton, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Joiners is a small music venue in a former pub (The Joiners Arms) on St Mary Street, St Mary's, Southampton, England. It has played host to many up-and-coming bands. The pub started having live acts in the back room in 1968. The maximum capacity is 200 people.[1] The venue is a member of the Music Venue Trust[2] and is perusing a campaign for their land to be owned by the trusts' Music Venue Properties.
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History
In December 2006, writer Oliver Gray published a book entitled Access One Step: The Official History of the Joiners Arms, which documents the history of the venue and includes a foreword by Razorlight drummer Andy Burrows.[3][4]
In 2013[1][5] and 2015[6] the venue was named Britain's best small music venue in a competition run by NME.
The Joiners ran a crowdfunder in 2017 to have emergency repairs covered, with a target of £7,000, it reached £9,275 in six days.[6]
During the COVID-19 pandemic the venue was forced to close with the national lockdowns that took place over 2020 and 2021. Southampton City Council provided £25,000 in support to the venue whilst closed[7] and Frank Turner did a livestream concert there and raised over £10,000 for the venue.[8] Southampton rock band Creeper were one of their first set of non-socially distanced concert they organised[7]
In 2025, the venue became part of the Music Venue Properties effort to raise money through equity crowdfunding so that the land that the Joiners and six other venues in England be bought and community owned, in order to protect them from closure.[9]
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Notable bands that played at The Joiners
- 65daysofstatic[10]
- Arctic Monkeys[11]
- Ash[12]
- Babybird[13]
- Bad Manners[14]
- Band of Skulls[15]
- Best Coast[16]
- Birdpen[17]
- Blood Red Shoes[18]
- Bob Vylan[19]
- Bombay Bicycle Club[20]
- Bury Tomorrow[21]
- Cage the Elephant[22]
- Camera Obscura[23]
- Carter USM[24]
- Catatonia[12]
- Catfish and the Bottlemen[25]
- Chapel Club[26]
- Cherry Ghost[27]
- Childhood[28]
- Circa Waves[29]
- Coldplay[12]
- Cooper Temple Clause[30]
- Creeper[7]
- Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip[31]
- Dananananaykroyd[32]
- David Gray[12]
- Deaf Havana[33]
- Delays[34]
- Delirium
- Delphic[35]
- Devilish Presley[36]
- DragonForce[37]
- Drenge[38]
- Echobelly[39]
- Ed Sheeran[40]
- Enter Shikari[41]
- Feeder
- Fink[42]
- First Aid Kit[43]
- Foals[44]
- Frank Turner[45]
- Franz Ferdinand[46]
- Friendly Fires[47]
- Gorky's Zygotic Mynci[48]
- Green Day[49]
- Hadouken![50]
- Hope of the States[51]
- Howards Alias[52]
- Hundred Reasons[53]
- Jamie T[54]
- Jawbreaker[55]
- John Otway[39]
- Johnny Foreigner[56]
- Kasabian[57]
- Klaxons[58]
- Late of the Pier[59]
- Little Comets[60]
- Los Campesinos![61]
- Lower Than Atlantis[62]
- Lonely the Brave[63]
- Lucy Rose[64]
- Manic Street Preachers[12]
- Mansun[65]
- Mary Spender[66]
- Melt-Banana[67]
- Metronomy[68]
- Million Dead[69]
- Mogwai[70]
- Moloko[71]
- Muse[72]
- My Vitriol[73]
- Mystery Jets[74]
- Napalm Death[75]
- Nick Oliveri[76]
- Niki & The Dove[77]
- NOFX[55]
- Oasis[12]
- Oceansize[78]
- Panic! at the Disco[79]
- Paul Heaton[80]
- Peace[81]
- Pete Doherty[12]
- PJ Harvey[12]
- Placebo[82]
- Portugal. The Man[83]
- Primal Scream[12]
- Radiohead[12]
- Reuben[84]
- Rolo Tomassi[85]
- Sham 69[86]
- Sisteray[87]
- Skindred[88]
- Skunk Anansie[89]
- Sleaford Mods[90]
- Sleeper[91]
- Slow Club[43]
- Spunge[92]
- Super Furry Animals[93]
- Suede[12]
- Supergrass[71]
- Test Icicles[94]
- The 1975
- The Beat
- The Bluetones[12]
- The Bouncing Souls[95]
- The Charlatans[12]
- The Divine Comedy[96]
- The History of Apple Pie[97]
- The Joy Formidable[98]
- The Kills[12]
- The Kooks[99]
- The Levellers[100]
- The Libertines[101]
- The Maccabees[102]
- The Men They Couldn't Hang[103]
- The Pigeon Detectives[104]
- The Rakes[105]
- The Spinto Band[106]
- The Vaccines[107]
- The Verve[12]
- The Wombats[108]
- The Young Gods[109]
- The Zutons[110]
- These New Puritans[111]
- Twin Atlantic[112]
- Two Door Cinema Club[35]
- We Are Scientists[113]
- Wheatus[114]
- White Lies[115]
- Willy Mason[116]
- You Me at Six[117]
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References
External links
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