Future Blood is a Music Development Project for 14- 21 year olds held weekly on Wednesdays between 6-9pm.

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

Your weekly community social has found its new home! Trans Institute is taking it back to 210 High Street; a site rooted in decades of Swansea’s queer history (formerly Champers and Elysium).

MWSOG are a seven-piece Welsh collective reshaping contemporary folk through a bold, ritualistic lens. Drawing deeply from Welsh traditional music, 1970s acid folk and psychedelic rock, they forge a sound that feels ancient in spirit yet resolutely modern - hypnotic, visceral and distinctly their own.

Following their triumphant debut performance, Around About Dusk return for a night of New Orleans-inspired folk, jazz & blues

Formed in 2022 and featuring ex-members of Prosperina & The 9ine, Night On The Sun is a powerhouse 4-piece band that draws inspiration from Psychedelia, Grunge, Progressive Rock and more.

With an energetic and powerful angle, they craft a sound that resonates with both nostalgia and innovation - as if your favourite 90s records got filtered through the lens of the 21st century.

Gaudy Orde deliver a raucous, wonderfully daft night of "Anarchic Acoustic Comedy." Fronted by UK Musical Comedy Award winner Jeff Japers, this South Wales 6-piece cooks up a chaotic live mix of ukuleles, bass, clarinet, spoons, washboard, and cajon (expect a drumming bunny and a tribute to Brian Blessed!).

“A once-a-generation talent” Henry Yates (NME, Guardian)

Growing up inside a cult, Katey Brooks found refuge in song. A rebellious artist that resists formula, the powerful (Evening Standard) award-winning singer, songwriter & producer brings a seamless blend of Americana, Folk and Pop to listeners’ ears, which has earned her radio play from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, 6music, Canada’s CBC, Jazz FM, and Amazing Radio amongst many others.

Future Blood is a Music Development Project for 14- 21 year olds held weekly on Wednesdays between 6-9pm.

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

Your weekly community social has found its new home! Trans Institute is taking it back to 210 High Street; a site rooted in decades of Swansea’s queer history (formerly Champers and Elysium).

Ever wondered where the word hoo-ha comes from? Why there ain’t no party like a double negative party?  And why bead doesn’t rhyme with bread, machine doesn’t rhyme with nine, and don’t get me started on yearly and early? This is the event for you!

Berlin/Lisbon based Aniqo joins French artist Love Supreme on this double bill - expect an intimate night based around voice, guitar, synth & subtle electronics

Learn Swansea’s songs in a relaxed environment/Dysgwch ganeuon Abertawe mewn amgylchedd hamddenol.

Bring your own instrument – all abilities welcome. £15 for a two-hour session/Dewch â’ch offeryn eich hun – croeso i bob gallu. £1 am sesiwn dwy awr.

Fortnightly on Saturday at 12:00/Bob pythefnos ar ddydd Sadwrn am 12:00

Cosmic Cornish psychedelia - six-piece collective Blind Yeo blend sun-bleached folk, desert blues, krautrock & north African trance-rock

Future Blood is a Music Development Project for 14- 21 year olds held weekly on Wednesdays between 6-9pm.

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

Your weekly community social has found its new home! Trans Institute is taking it back to 210 High Street; a site rooted in decades of Swansea’s queer history (formerly Champers and Elysium).

Talisman is Swansea's longest-running poetry & spoken word open mic night, expertly curated by Rebecca Lowe.

Held on the last Thursday of the month anyone can sign up, and featured poets are regularly hosted. Sign up from 7.30pm ahead of readings starting at 8pm.

Swansea Fringe returns for it’s 2026 instalment, and this year’s Funk @ The Fringe has a distinctly Afrobeat feel with N’Famady Kouyaté, Kasai Masai & Maryama Cham and Xempa, plus Funked Up! DJs until late!

Old Spot push the boundaries of stringband tradition; digging deeper into the roots of old-time while crafting a live show that’s equal parts intimate & electrifying

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

Your weekly community social has found its new home! Trans Institute is taking it back to 210 High Street; a site rooted in decades of Swansea’s queer history (formerly Champers and Elysium).

Another barnstorming booking this month as Stuart Laws headlines our monthly comedy night! Plus Alex Perkes, MC Chris Barnes and more!

A free, relaxed creative drop-in at Down By Here, Swansea.

Creation Station is a space for artists, musicians, performers, filmmakers, writers, makers and other creatives to come together, work on ideas, meet people and collaborate.

Learn Swansea’s songs in a relaxed environment/Dysgwch ganeuon Abertawe mewn amgylchedd hamddenol.

Bring your own instrument – all abilities welcome. £15 for a two-hour session/Dewch â’ch offeryn eich hun – croeso i bob gallu. £1 am sesiwn dwy awr.

Fortnightly on Saturday at 12:00/Bob pythefnos ar ddydd Sadwrn am 12:00

“High lonesome harmonies from the heart of the hills.”

Mountain Song is a hard-driving bluegrass duo bringing the sound of the genre’s golden era back to the stage.

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

Your weekly community social has found its new home! Trans Institute is taking it back to 210 High Street; a site rooted in decades of Swansea’s queer history (formerly Champers and Elysium).

A very festive evening of your favourite seasonal songs, sung by Lyn Lawrence, and with singing along encouraged!

R*E*P*E*A*T Tearfully Presents

MONET – The Funeral Party

One last chance to experience Monet, one of the most original, inventive and downright wonderful bands to emerge from South Wales.

Now in its third year, Dark Winter Tales invites you to gather around and listen to a new crop of horror writers reading their own unsettling stories of the supernatural. From folk legends to Victorian ghosts, cosmic horror to speculative fiction and everything in between.

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

Your weekly community social has found its new home! Trans Institute is taking it back to 210 High Street; a site rooted in decades of Swansea’s queer history (formerly Champers and Elysium).

Described by Adam Walton (BBC Radio Wales) as a "peripatetic musical genius", Tom Emlyn crafts honest, swirling songs. Tall tales laced with dark jokes and words that cut straight to the bone.

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

The Down By Here Open Mic!

Full backline is available so whatever your setup we are confident we can cater for you - though if you are in a nine-piece funk band maybe just give us a heads up to let us know you are coming!

Free drink for every performer. 7.30pm start.

The first Rogue of 2027 is Harriet Dyer, back for the first time since we moved into the new room! Support from Mike Reed, plus MC Chris Barnes & other acts tba

To celebrate ten years of Lavender Sweep Records, founded in 2017, they are putting on a series of gigs throughout 2027. The celebrations kick off on 23 January with a shoegaze and alternative night at Down By Here, featuring some of the labels favourite bands on the South Wales music scene.

An exciting mixed bill of music encompassing electronica, rock, techno and lots, lots more!

Scotland's finest export? Probably. Don't miss insane funk-rockers High Fade - returning to the venue for the first time since our rebrand!

With support from Virgil & The Accelerators, this could be the gig of the year. Get your tickets now!

Known for his work with The Utopia Strong, Knifeworld and Gong, join us for an intimate night with the mercurial Kavus Torabi

London-based alt-folk alchemist Seamus Fogarty makes his DBH debut on his extensive UK tour celebrating his latest - critically-acclaimed - album ‘Ships’.

Step into the gritty, smoky world of Tom Waits as Bone Machine delivers an unforgettable homage to the legendary singer-songwriter

As the singer in I Am Kloot from 1999 to 2014, John Bramwell achieved a Mercury Prize nomination for 2010’s The Sky At Night, a Top 10 chart position for 2013’s Let It All In, numerous UK and European tours and a triumphant farewell at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with an orchestra in 2014.

Now, as a solo artist, Bramwell travels a very different path, a path that criss-crosses the length and breadth of the UK with a humble agenda of taking his heartwarming songs to the stage and enjoying another moment in time with his devoted fans.