The List

Bootleg Social

One of Blackpool's newest alternative music bar and venue, Bootleg Social is located near the sea. It is close to a number of tourist attractions, including Blackpool Tower, Madame Tussauds and Sea Life.

What's On @ Bootleg Social

London Calling: A Tribute to The Clash
London Calling are the world's premiere tribute to The Clash. Released in April 1977, the self-titled debut LP by The Clash reached #12 in the UK charts and is regarded as one of the greatest punk albums of all time. London Calling will be performing the entire LP in sequence before playing a selection of hits and fan favourites by The Clash.
The Bluetones

The Bluetones

30 Oct 2025 - 19 Apr 2026

A very special acoustic show with Mark Morriss & Adam Devlin of Britpop legends The Bluetones. The band, formed in 1993, had an impressive run of hit singles throughout the late 90's/early 00's, including ’Bluetonic’, ‘Slight Return’, ‘Marblehead Johnson’, ‘Solomon Bites The Worm’, ‘If’ and ‘Keep the Fires Burning’. They scored thirteen Top 40 singles and three Top 10 albums in the UK charts before splitting up in 2011. Join frontman Mark Morriss alongside band mate Adam Devlin as they "Cut Some Rug" on stage together at this very intimate show.
The Total Stone Roses & Oaysis Live

The Total Stone Roses & Oaysis Live

31 Oct 2025 - 9 May 2026

The Total Stone Roses play the best 'Roses material including 'She Bangs The Drums', 'Fools Gold', 'Waterfall, 'I Wanna Be Adored' and 'Love Spreads'. You will not find a better sound-a-like band this side of 1989!
The Orb

The Orb

31 Oct 2025 - 6 Jun 2026

The Orb virtually invented the electronic genre known as ambient house, resurrecting slower, more soulful rhythms and providing a soundtrack for early-morning ravers once the clubs closed their doors. Founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and The KLF member Jimmy Cauty, membership of The Orb has been fluid over the years, with Paterson remaining the only constant throughout. The Orb released their fifteenth studio album, ‘No Sounds Are Out of Bounds’, in 2018 via Cooking Vinyl. These fifteen albums plus EPs, singles, compilations and live recordings have influenced countless other musicians along the way.
High Fade

High Fade

20 Nov 2025 - 23 Jan 2026

With a more traditional offline approach towards learning their craft and perfecting the High Fade sound, Harry Valentino (guitar/vocals), Oliver Sentance (bass) and Calvin Davidson (drums) developed their infectious style whilst feeding off the unpredictable crowd interactions that come with street shows and busking.
Luke Combs Experience

Luke Combs Experience

6 Nov 2025 - 3 Oct 2026

The Luke Combs Experience. Join us for an unforgettable evening filled with amazing music and good vibes as we welcome the UKs best tribute band to country superstar Luke Combs. Get ready to sing along to all your favourite hits and experience the magic of live music.
The Vintage Explosion

The Vintage Explosion

2 Nov 2025 - 26 Sept 2026

Catch this chance to see viral sensations The Vintage Explosion. You will be transported back in time for a night of authentic rock n roll, swing and rhythm and blues.
Ben Ottewell

Ben Ottewell

11 Dec 2025 - 11 Dec 2025

As a singer and lead guitarist in rock band Gomez, Ben Ottewell is well known for his unmistakable voice and talent for blistering and inspired guitar solos. Ottewell released his first solo album Shapes & Shadows (ATO) in 2011, featuring such beautiful acoustic tunes as 'Blackbird', 'Shapes and Shadows' and 'Take This Beach', which appeared on FX’s Sons of Anarchy. Since then, Ottewell has been pleasing audiences with a series of successful solo tours across the UK, US and Australia.
The Jam'd: The Jam Tribute

The Jam'd: The Jam Tribute

1 Nov 2025 - 10 Oct 2026

The Jam’d are now the UK’s best known and most popular tribute to the live performance and sound of The Jam, and are totally committed to giving an unforgettable, authentic performance with all the energy, passion and style of the Woking 3. As full time touring professional musicians, and massive Jam fans, the band don’t “try to be” or “pretend to be” The Jam, but rather put on a performance from the heart and soul, drawing on all their memories, experiences and love of what was the country’s biggest band in their day. Gigging up and down the UK at outdoor festivals, scooter rallies and some of the UK’s top music venues & events! The show also includes the only replica of Rick Bucklers ‘Great White’ drum kit & features their own brass section! You won’t be disappointed!
Smoove & Turrell

Smoove & Turrell

7 Nov 2025 - 31 Dec 2025

Smoove & Turrell create a style they describe as 'Northern Funk'. The duo's contemporary sound fuses a variety of musical genres including funk, Northern soul, hip-hop and jazz. A firm favourite of 6 Music's Craig Charles their live shows are legendary and they'll be playing material from the new album Crown Posada and their extensive back catalogue.
Swiftogeddon: The Taylor Swift Club Night
A night dedicated to worshipping at the altar of Taylor Swift: non-stop Swifty all night: deep cuts, extended mixes, fan favourites and all the hits. Do you have a Blank Space in your diary? Then this night is Taylor-made for you! Join fellow fans in a celebration of the genius of the Swift - because she'll never go out of Style.
Goldie Lookin' Chain

Goldie Lookin' Chain

6 Nov 2025 - 13 Nov 2026

Coming straight out of Newport The GLC are officially Britain’s biggest rap group. Known for classics like “Guns don’t kill people rappers do”, The GLC started almost by accident around the turn of the century with Eggsy’s impromptu rap about his tracksuit over a serious piece of music Rhys was working on in the studio. Adam Hussain, Billy Webb, Mystkal, the Maggot, 2hats and Mike Balls convinced Rhys to record the rap. Fuelled by Lambrini, fags, Chicken Tikka Massala and weed they all took to the mic and The GLC’s first album “Don’t Blame the Chain” was born. And so it began, the journey which has so far seen The GLC rise to the top of the charts, perform around the world and at every major festival in the Western Hemisphere and make millions of people laugh along the way. Now many years since that first rap about Eggsy’s tracksuit, the boys are still keeping it real in the rap game and hold the title of the most successful UK rap act ever. To date The GLC have released 18 albums… and amazingly none of them have died yet. You knows it! GLC (Live) plus special guests
Getdown Services

Getdown Services

10 Nov 2025 - 10 Jan 2026

Two piece from Bristol that provide a sweat soaked, tub thumping, groove infused experience. Squint your eyes and it’s a stag do on a karaoke machine but open your mind and you’ll find it’s at least 500% more enjoyable than that.
The Lathums

The Lathums

28 Nov 2025 - 29 Nov 2025

Besides all the sadness and strangeness The Lathums have experienced together, their relatively short time as a band led to some pretty wild things. A number one album in How Beautiful Life Can Be, for starters. Honesty, hope & heartbreak feature in the poetry-laced music of The Lathums. Everything sung from the heart, four young men from an overlooked town in England’s north gathered as teenagers without ego or expectation and set about changing the lives of the people that gathered round them.
Pentire

Pentire

12 Nov 2025 - 21 Mar 2026

Pentire are an indie band who make pop songs for the post-jangle generation through the smiles and sweat of the mosh pit. This Herefordshire four-piece tell cheap lager-soaked stories of student life, a small-town upbringing, and the innocence of youth. Brought up on a diet of The Killers, Paolo Nutini and Stereophonics, frontman and principal songwriter Jack formed a band with his best mate Owen in the sleepy town of Ross-on-Wye. The two friends met drummer Jake and bass player Jacob whilst at university, which cemented the four-piece that is now selling out venues across the UK.
Cud

Cud

29 Oct 2025 - 13 Dec 2025

Emerging from the same art/design cauldron that produced fellow Leeds legends Soft Cell, Scritti Politti, and The Mekons, CUD were the pre-Britpop answer to doleful shoegazing bands fun-loving, light-hearted, romantic and downright catchy. Alternatively loved or loathed like a yeast extract, CUD are indie rock for the unpretentious pleasure seeker, boasting as they do the rich deep-lunged voice of Carl Puttnam, edgy guitars of Mike Dunphy and tight, funky rhythm section of William Potter, bass and Gogs Byrn, drums. CUD were initially lauded for their quirky Peel session cover of You Sexy Thing in 1987. They soon built up a huge live following and buffed up their repertoire with a string of unstraight pop beauties, best exemplified by the 1990 album Leggy Mambo. This led to a major-label deal with A&M in 1991, front-page NME coverage, massive sellout gigs and proper Top 30 hits, Rich and Strange and Purple Love Balloon. Misunderstood by record companies and press, CUD packed away their guitars and sticks in 1995 but, bolstered by a greatest hits anthology (Rich and Strange) in 2006, they agreed to tread the boards again, with a further reunion following in 2012 (now with original guitarist and key songwriter Mike Dunphy) and continue to find an army of Space CUDets still eager to sing along, dance like fruitcakes and invade their stage.
Popes Of Chillitown

Popes Of Chillitown

12 Dec 2025 - 13 Dec 2025

Popes of Chillitown play ska/dub/punk with a progressive edge. Impossible to tie down and with enough energy to power a small city, their songs drag you through punk, two-tone, rock, hip-hop, reggae, drum & bass, dub, metal and more. Renowned for their energetic live shows, they have amassed a loyal following over the years. Since 2011, Popes have released 3 well-received albums, 2 EPs, toured the UK with US legends Fishbone, Voodoo Glow Skulls & The Slackers as well as doing extensive headline touring of their own across the UK & Europe.
Gwenno

Gwenno

29 Oct 2025 - 15 Nov 2025

Gwenno Saunders is a music producer, DJ, radio presenter, musician and singer from Cardiff. She is a native Welsh and Cornish speaker and it is this, along with co-producing and co-hosting Welsh language show Cam O'r Tywyllwch (A Step Away From The Darkness) with Peski for Radio Cardiff and more recently, Resonance FM, that has led her to create music that translates her Internationalist influences into layered, home-fi keyboard sounds wrapped in echoed vocals and musique concrète-inspired beats.
Youth Sector

Youth Sector

28 Jan 2026 - 28 Jan 2026

Brighton five-piece art-rock outfit Youth Sector deliver an agitated, robotic sound packed with witty barbs and boopy bits.
Pulled Apart By Horses

Pulled Apart By Horses

7 Nov 2025 - 7 Nov 2025

Pulled Apart by Horses are an alternative rock band from Leeds, England. They formed in early 2008. In 2009 they were successfully signed by Transgressive Records and released their debut self-titled album Pulled Apart by Horses on 21 June 2010. In August 2011, the band went into Monnow Valley Studio in Wales to record with renowned Foo Fighters & Pixies record producer Gil Norton, and their second album Tough Love was released to critical acclaim on 20 January 2012. After Tough Love, the band sold out their first European tour, and went on to support Biffy Clyro & Foals. In 2010 they supported Muse at the Manchester County Cricket Ground. In September 2014 the band's 3rd album Blood became their first top 40, entering the charts at 38. In 2016, Pulled Apart by Horses recorded a take over for Annie Mac and the BBC's Radio 1 in the United Kingdom. The band's 4th album, The Haze was released in March 2017 and reached number 12 in the charts. In October 2019, Pulled Apart By Horses released the stand alone single ‘Is This Thing On?’ Through Transgressive Records and have also revealed that they are currently working on their 5th album​
Black Parade - 00s Emo Anthems

Black Parade - 00s Emo Anthems

31 Oct 2025 - 30 Jan 2026

The UK's biggest emo night! Emo party anthems all night from My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, The Used, All American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, Enter Shikari, You Me At Six, Hawthorne Heights, Pierce The Veil, All Time Low and loads more.
Dogshow

Dogshow

30 Oct 2025 - 19 Feb 2026

Dogshow are 2 brothers traversing the astral planes of dance music - whilst dressed as poodles. These two full-bodied canine siblings are on a mission to create the ultimate party experience, fusing live techno and rave with real instruments. Performing in the middle of the audience on their battery powered Dog Trolley they conduct an animalistic howling at the moon ceremony. Part space-age cabaret, part canine cult this is dance music at its most gloriously unhinged. Join the spectacle and unleash your inner canine.
Ash

Ash

15 Nov 2025 - 19 Feb 2026

Alt.rock with indie and punk vibes from the multi-million selling trio and Brit rock favourites. Ash are a Northern Irish band formed in Downpatrick and featuring Tim Wheeler (vocals/guitar), Mark Hamilton (bass) and Rick McMurray (drums).
Daiistar

Daiistar

3 Nov 2025 - 7 Nov 2025

Daiistar is a Noise-Pop/Alt-Indie band formed in Austin, Texas in the spring of 2020. The band takes their inspiration from the neo-psychedelic era of the 80s and 90s and pulls it into the future with modulating synthesizers, heavy guitars, bouncing bass lines, and spiraling hooks, creating a narcotic blend of noise and melody.
Lene Lovich Band

Lene Lovich Band

16 Jan 2026 - 17 Jan 2026

Alternative icon Lene Lovich brings her amazing live show to the legendary 1 in 12 Club, plus special guests The Elements in a show brought to you by Songs of Preys Music.
Warmduscher

Warmduscher

29 Oct 2025 - 19 Feb 2026

Warmduscher are a group of miscreants, known only by aliases (Clams Baker Jr, Lightnin' Jack Everett, Salt Fingers, Quicksand and Dr. Withers aka Little Whiskers). Ardent fans, Iggy Pop and Marc Riley have only gleaming praise to heap on the band, and in return, Warmduscher have blessed them both with immortality. The band's live show has left thousands across the UK and Europe desperate for more.
Pale Blue Eyes

Pale Blue Eyes

13 Nov 2025 - 13 Feb 2026

Pale Blue Eyes’ excelsior modernist pop music comes from Devon and Sheffield – via stop-overs in Iceland, KLF-land and the Steel City home of British electronic music.
Colatura

Colatura

5 Nov 2025 - 11 Nov 2025

Colatura writes music that is sometimes dreamy, sometimes heavy, with pop-leaning melodies, earnest storytelling, and fuzzy guitars. Originally from NYC, they relocated to Pittsburgh in early 2024.
Betty Boo

Betty Boo

19 Nov 2025 - 14 Dec 2025

Betty Boo is a Hip Hop pioneer and 90’s icon, as well as a a multi-platinum selling, Brit- and Ivor Novello- Award-winning singer/songwriter/producer from West London. In 1987, a chance meeting in McDonald's on Shepherd’s Bush Green with Public Enemy after the Def Jam show at Hammersmith, led to her supporting the band on their tour in the US with her Hip Hop trio She Rockers. In 1989 she featured as featured vocalist on The Beatmasters’ Top 10 single - Hey DJ/I Can't Dance (To That Music You're Playing) Her first solo single, Doin’ The Do, was released the following year and heralded Betty Boo as a phenomenon in her own right. Doin’ The Do and the follow-up Where Are You Baby? were both top 10 singles. They were written and demoed by Betty Boo in her bedroom using basic sampling gear - a process she would return to in recent years.
Parka Monkeys Crimbo Indie Disco

Parka Monkeys Crimbo Indie Disco

20 Dec 2025 - 20 Dec 2025

Parka Monkeys return to Bootleg Social for their now legendary annual Christmas special Live Indie Disco. Two sets of nothing but the best Indie/Rock and roll bangers with a few Christmas surprises. The perfect Christmas party for fans of Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Pulp, The Stone Roses, The Smiths, The Killers, The Courteeners and all things indie and Britpop. Early bird tickets just £5 - they will sell out fast. Advanced tickets £10. On the door £15. Support to be announced along with group discount special offers.
Kin Tala

Kin Tala

27 Dec 2025 - 27 Dec 2025

KIN TALA is the moniker of Dom Rogers and Shee Juma - two producers whose songwriting stretches back to school days
Jeramiah Ferrari

Jeramiah Ferrari

12 Dec 2025 - 12 Dec 2025

We're Jeramiah Ferrari. Its a weird name, and it has a story... ask us at a show and we'll enlighten you. We're a four piece alternative rock/reggae band from the North West of England, who over the years have garnered a solid reputation for our live shows. We've worked to take our music overseas on many occasions, and been main support with bands we see as inspirations such as The Wailers, Steel Pulse, Sublime With Rome, The Skints and Madness. Throughout the lockdown situation, and missing the live music scene, we've taken the time to hone our new sound, its bigger, ballsier and groovier than we've ever been before.
Elephant Kind

Elephant Kind

16 Feb 2026 - 26 Feb 2026

Hailing from Jakarta, Indonesia but now based in London, Elephant Kind is an alt-pop trio made up of Bam Mastro, Kevin Septanto and Bayu Adisapoetra. The three pieces have been making huge waves across South East Asia over the last decade, before moving over to the UK earlier this year to start fresh and immerse themselves in a different environment to harness a new creative vision.
Utah Saints

Utah Saints

7 Nov 2025 - 30 May 2026

English electronic music duo consisting of members Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt. The band had three top-ten and another five top-40 singles on the UK Singles Chart in the 1990s, as well as number-one dance tracks in the UK and US. This is an 18+ event .
Fat Lip Halloween Party

Fat Lip Halloween Party

1 Nov 2025 - 1 Nov 2025

Expect tunes from Blink 182, Sum 41, My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte, Taking Back Sunday, Green Day, Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Finch, Paramore, The Used, State Champs, Neck Deep, Jimmy Eat World, Panic! at the Disco, Mayday Parade, The Wonder Years, Bowling For Soup, Papa Roach, Linkin Park and many more!
Brooke Combe

Brooke Combe

17 Dec 2025 - 9 Apr 2026

Brooke Combe discovered a love for music aged just 5 years old, after getting her first toy drum kit. Eventually she added playing saxophone, trombone, guitar, bass and piano to her repertoire while at secondary school and began to find her own uniquely powerful voice along the way. Combe, influenced by the ‘90s R&B played in her mum and dad's house, as well as the Motown her grandparents would play her, developed a love of great songwriting and vocalists and lyricists with their own idiosyncrasies - such as Amy Winehouse and Fleetwood Mac - before beginning to work on her own material.
The Covasettes

The Covasettes

6 Feb 2026 - 27 Feb 2026

The Covasettes are an indie-rock four-piece, from Manchester, made up of frontman Chris Buxton, lead guitarist Matt Hewlett, bassist Jamie McIntyre and drummer Matt Buckley.
Akai Solo

Akai Solo

27 Oct 2025 - 30 Oct 2025

NYC trailblazer Akai Solo has been known for his relentless output since 2018. Notable releases include but are not limited to Black Sand with Pink Siifu, Mad Space with fellow Tase Grip member iblss, and True Sky with Navy Blue. The Brooklyn native has also released two projects on backwoodz studios, Body Feeling and Spirit Roaming. With such a refreshing and interesting approach to the artform it is easy to see why fellow heavy hitters such as Madlib, Alchemist, Earl Sweatshirt, and billy woods champion him so strongly.
Bug Teeth

Bug Teeth

26 Nov 2025 - 21 Feb 2026

With five little green bug hats peeking above the stage, Bug Teeth conjure a world just beyond reach - oneiric, spellbinding, and insistent. Harsh guitars and skittering drum and bass rhythms break through hazy ambient dreamscapes, blurring softness with intensity. Lyrics are direct yet poetic, each song a slide beneath a microscope, examining the intimate, the infinite, and everything in between. Born from a DIY spirit, Bug Teeth began as the electronic bedroom project of front-person PJ Johnson, shaping self-produced spectral melodies. From these delicate, lo-fi beginnings emerged a raw, celestial sound, drawing listeners into its unique gravity. Over time, the project grew into a full band, their live performances both fragile and ferocious, a hypnotic push and pull between distortion and stillness. Their music bends genre, pulling influences from dream pop, electronic ambience, and breakbeat to craft something that feels both weightless and deeply grounded. Their latest single, Landscaping, expanded their sonic world further, balancing beauty with abrasive grief. With radio and editorial support, alongside a growing cult following, Bug Teeth continue to evolve - shapeshifting, sprawling, and spiriting listeners away into the space between waking and dreaming.
Clutter

Clutter

5 Nov 2025 - 6 Nov 2025

Clutter is a rock from band Stockholm. They have already gathered a following from their raucous live shows with their brand of dirty shoegaze-y indie rock.
Romeo Stodart & Ren Harvieu

Romeo Stodart & Ren Harvieu

14 Jan 2026 - 31 Jan 2026

Ren and Romeo are playing some unique duo shows together. They will be playing much loved songs from their respective catalogues, new songs yet to be heard, perhaps a cheeky cover or two and are open to wherever the night takes them. If youd like to experience the intimacy of songwriting, story telling and what it feels like to have found kindred spirits, you wont want to miss this special show.
Dead Sheep & Friends Christmas Parteee
Come and support local Blackpool band Dead Sheep and friends performing at Bootleg Social, Blackpool for a Christmas get together on Saturday 6 December 2025. Its the time of year to give back and what better way than young people helping the children in our local community with a gift for Christmas! 1) Buy a ticket to support our gig, which in turn supports your local fabulous music venue. 2) Buy a drink at the venue - it helps a lot! Without these venues bands like us wouldnt have the opportunity to perform live! 3) Buy a new toy or book and bring this unwrapped so we can donate these locally to Be Inspired campaign or Salvation Army who also distribute toys to those struggling locally. Lets do something good together! Dress up, bring your sparkle and energy and join in the Dead Sheep Sheeple Gang! Tag us in on Instagram @deadsheep.band when you buy a ticket and let us know you are coming. See you there. Love from Dead Sheep x

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