Live Music in Bath

Few cities its size have shaped British music so consistently. Bath produced Peter Gabriel, Tears for Fears, and PinkPantheress across six decades, and its late-night club Moles was where Tears for Fears played their very first live show in 1982, with Crescent Studios on Walcot Street capturing the recordings that launched them. The Bath Indie sound that emerged in the late 1990s, built on jangly guitars, driving rhythms, and melodic hooks, gave the city its own identifiable place in the indie rock story. Today the live scene runs from jazz at Green Park Brasserie inside the city's historic old railway station to local and international acts at Burdall's Yard, with Komedia Bath, The Bell Inn, and Chapel Arts Centre filling out a calendar that spans rock, folk, and club nights throughout the year.