The Joiners

For the gay club in Hackney, London, see The Joiners Arms.

The Joiners

The Joiners Location within Southampton
Location	St Mary's, Southampton
Coordinates	50°54′16″N1°23′48″W / 50.904553°N 1.396533°W / 50.904553; -1.396533
Owner	Joiners Southampton Ltd.
Capacity	200
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

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

• 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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External links

• Official website