| Location | St Mary's, Southampton |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 50°54′16″N 1°23′48″W / 50.904553°N 1.396533°W |
| Owner | Joiners Southampton Ltd. |
| Capacity | 200 |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1968 |
| Website | |
| www.joinerslive.co.uk | |
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.
History
[edit]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 November 2025, the building was purchased by Music Venue Properties, a charitable community benefit society which acts as a "supportive and benevolent landlord" for grassroots music venues.[9]
Notable bands that played at The Joiners
[edit]- 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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