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Gloucester Guildhall - Gloucester's liveliest venue!
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Gloucester Guildhall for great entertainment all year round. |
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The Guildhall in Eastgate Street (next door to the C&G Building Society) is the county's liveliest, most diverse venue, boasting two cinema screens, a concert hall, theatre, galleries, workshops and delightful café-bar.
Up to 250,000 people visit the venue each year to be entertained by fantastic new live music, comedy & theatre. Many of the acts that have appeared at the venue since it opened are now major household names.
The Guildhall's unique cinema is housed in the sumptuous oak-panelled former council chamber, and its diverse mix of classic films, art-house releases and big screen blockbusters is the most exciting in the county.
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Gloucester Guildhall where you can enjoy many event, exhibition, workshop and lots more! |
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The Guildhall's main auditorium was originally a Victorian civic ballroom, and features one of the best sprung dance floors in the county. The auditorium now hosts regular concerts and performances, including The Big Laugh Café, the county’s longest running comedy club, and Acoustica, Gloucestershire’s finest acoustic new music night.
The Guildhall also stages hundreds of workshops every year, from Jazzjive to breakdancing, yoga to life drawing, and has a year-round programme of cutting edge new art and photography exhibitions.
The Place café-bar is a laid-back and peaceful haven just a step away from the hustle and bustle of Eastgate Street, offering fresh cooked, home-made lunches, many suitable for vegetarians. The café-bar is open from 10am – 4pm in the daytime, with food being served from 10.30am – 3.00pm, and is open in the evening for performances.
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For the latest stage performances, live music, cracking comedy, exhibitions, workshops and lots more at the Gloucester Guildhall, check our Gloucester What's On & Events monthly listings.
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Gloucester Guildhall 20th Anniversary - 1988 - 2008On 25 March 2008, the Gloucester Guildhall celebrated its twentieth birthday as a venue and arts centre.
The
Gloucester Guildhall was originally built in 1890 and opened in 1892 on
the site formally occupied by Sir Thomas Rich's School. It housed
offices for the town clerk, accountant, surveyor, and other officials
on the ground floor, and had council chambers, committee rooms, the
mayor's parlour, and a public hall on the first floor. The building
hosted the Mayors Ball each year in what is now the theatre and
remained in use for council meetings and as the chief executive's
offices until 1985.
A large scale refurbishment went ahead
between 1985 and 1988, turning the place into an Arts Centre and the
Gloucester Guildhall has been entertaining, educating and invigorating
Gloucester ever since. Over five million people have passed through its
doors to date, enjoying thousands of live shows, film screenings,
theatre and dance performances, exhibitions, and workshops.
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Jimmy Carr
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Over the years the Gloucester Guildhall has hosted many acts who have since become household names, including stadium-filling bands and artists such as Muse and Radiohead, current chart stars The Cribs and Maximo Park and big name comedians like Jimmy Carr, Jo Brand and Dara O’Briain. With great comedy nights at the Gloucester Guildhall like 'Giggle at the Guild' and the 'Big Laugh Café', the chances of seeing another future big name star is very likely!!!
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EMF
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Plus In 1990, young Gloucester and Forest Of Dean upstarts EMF
became one of the biggest musical acts on the planet, thanks largely to
the almighty anthem ‘Unbelievable’, whose video was filmed at the
climax of a chaotic and memorable Friday night gig at the Gloucester
Guildhall. The band, all suffering from flu and exhaustion from hard
touring and even harder partying, rose to the occasion in front of the
home crowd and a bit of pop video history was made, with the wild
euphoria of the live gig experience captured perfectly on film. The
video shoot ended with a huge glitterbomb exploding above the stage and
showering the audience and Guildhall staff still found bits of glitter
up in the lighting rig some 18 years later.
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Simon Pegg
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The Gloucester
Guildhall has also given many Gloucester bands, artists and performers
the chance to perform to wider audiences, and has helped inspire a
generation to make music, create art or perform in the city.
International film star and Gloucester boy Simon Pegg spent his
formative years watching live comedy, bands and performing in the
Guildhall’s youth theatre group, and has cited the venue as a factor in
his success! He came back to host a special screening of his number one
box office film ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ in 2004, and said:
“I
will never forget how proud I was to be able to bring my first film,
Shaun Of The Dead, back home to Gloucester and show it at the
Gloucester Guildhall. It's a very special memory.”
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As the
Gloucester Guildhall looks to the future it will continue to seek out
the best up and coming bands, comedians, performers and artists, and to
look to stage new and exciting ‘exclusive’ events such as the wild
‘Maximum Reality’ interactive film screenings, which are unique to
Gloucester and are admired all across the UK.
The Gloucester
Guildhall is there for everyone – you don’t have to be an ‘arty’ type
to enjoy the many things that go on there, so if you’ve not sampled it
during the first twenty years, now’s the time to give it a try!
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