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The Joiners
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. The venue is a member of the Music Venue Trust and is perusing a campaign for their land to be owned by the trusts' Music Venue Properties.
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.
In 2013 and 2015 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.
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 and Frank Turner did a livestream concert there and raised over £10,000 for the venue. Southampton rock band Creeper were one of their first set of non-socially distanced concert they organised
In 2025, the venue became part of the Music Venue Properties effort to raise money through equity crowdfunding so that the land that the Joiners and six other venues in England be bought and community owned, in order to protect them from closure.
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The Joiners
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. The venue is a member of the Music Venue Trust and is perusing a campaign for their land to be owned by the trusts' Music Venue Properties.
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.
In 2013 and 2015 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.
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 and Frank Turner did a livestream concert there and raised over £10,000 for the venue. Southampton rock band Creeper were one of their first set of non-socially distanced concert they organised
In 2025, the venue became part of the Music Venue Properties effort to raise money through equity crowdfunding so that the land that the Joiners and six other venues in England be bought and community owned, in order to protect them from closure.