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Maddie Tremblett

Music is my first love. From an early age it has been there for me through all of my major life events. Live music is a vital part of this relationship. There is no better feeling than the vibrations of love chords and drum beats cascading through your body. Joining a crowd of strangers singing along to your favourite songs. 

Travelling to Bristol for shows was a regular part of my life prior to living here. I moved to Bristol for the music scene and a fresh start, and it was the best decision. The Exchange has been a huge part of that. I have been to countless gigs and forged many friendships with a bunch that include my best mates, via this place. It is somewhere that allows more than an anonymous check in. I’ve got to know a lot of people who work there, night and day. The Exchange has created a no asshole culture, and they are genuinely the nicest bunch. They also often create the music that, in my opinion, makes life worth living. If it wasn’t for the flexible working environment provided by The Exchange, many wouldn’t be able to do the music side. Not only do those who run The Exchange provide a space for live music and employ those who make the live music, they support new ventures. Specialist Subject Records is a music lovers dream. Eat Up! was actively encouraged to make this music scene more inclusive. Although I have seen some of my favourite bands at The Exchange, all dayers and special events are a guaranteed highlight. Deadpunk (rip), Invisible Llama, Fishstock, Eat Up! nights- you can rely on a positive enthusiastic atmosphere and the excitement of discovering potential new favourite bands. 

For me music is the cure all. The Exchange is a place I love and a second home. But you might not be in a long term committed relationship with music. Live music for you may be an occasional one night stand, or an open relationship which you share with the theatre or musicals. Whatever it is, fundamentally everyone can recognise that life is more than getting up and going to work on repeat. Live music adds to the richness of a person’s life experience. The Exchange stimulates a music scene that all can benefit from, but few contribute to. I know I am one who consumes, but doesn’t really add. I am in no bands, I don’t promote shows. Today I made the tiniest contribution and bought a share. If any of this resonates with you I would implore you to do the same. 

An illustration of The Exchange’s famous café by Bethany Wallington. Open 7 days a week for delicious vegan food, great cakes and speciality coffee. 

Kay Stanley, Specialist Subject Records

When the owners of Exchange found out we were thinking about moving to Bristol to open a record shop they got in touch and pitched to us the idea of taking over their band room.

At first we were hesitant - we had this grand idea of having our own shop front, designing the window displays, and what our front door might look like. But nevertheless we agreed to meet with them. Sat on a grubby sofa in the band room we knew from playing gigs over the years, Matt, Pete and Paul explained their vision for the future of Exchange - a music-focused community space for Bristol. We knew immediately it would be our future home.

By the time we opened just six weeks later we’d been totally taken under the wing of the owners and staff at Exchange, and became part of the family. The venue has been so accommodating and supportive of the events we’ve done - essentially letting us have free reign of the building - whether it was our opening party, first Record Store Day, weekend matinee gigs or instores.

Exchange is important because it has owners who are genuine music fans, who have set up and ran the venue out of passion for live music- just like many of the staff and regulars. Their vision for the venue is to keep it as a community-led space for live music for as long as possible- so much so they are willing to give up their ownership of the business in order to keep it going long-term.

Whether you’re the opening band of a bar show or the headliner of a sold out gig, the venue and staff have created an environment to celebrate live music without ego or hierarchy.

- Anonymous 

“Call in Sick” EP launch, attended by the author. The author chose to remain anonymous.  

This piece should really start with an apology for the number of times it says ‘I’ or ‘me’.  Growing up as part of the Drive Thru generation, it just comes naturally for some reason. It’s also cheesier than a Dawson’s Creek story arc, so if that isn’t your thing, maybe just skip to the last few sentences.  I should add early on that I openly discuss mental health, so please be aware of that if the topic doesn’t make comfortable reading for you.

I’m going to try and explain why the Exchange, and all small independent venues are so important to me personally, but I’m confident that there are others out there that share similar experiences already. Perhaps more importantly, there are others out there that haven’t had similar experiences, and whose lives would change for the better if they did. For that to happen, the Exchange, and all similar venues need to survive.

Around 10 years ago, I left Bristol to move to another city for work. During my time in Bristol, I met my partner and my best friends, mostly through absolutely sensational shows that took place at the Croft and the Junction (both sadly lost now).  I left pretty carefree.  

Fast forward 7 mostly miserable years, and after a period of working 16-20 hour shifts, 7 days a week for 5 weeks, I had a breakdown. There is little need to go into the full history and specifics, but ultimately I didn’t see any reason to trudge on, and taking action on that had started to enter my mind.

Months later, a good friend of mine managed to eek out of me what I would spend the next two days doing if I could pick literally anything. My answer - be back in Bristol at a gig, or sitting on the sofa with my partner and being able to focus on a good book without my mind spewing fear and anxiety and ruining it. One of those is easier to organise than the other, and that’s what led me to coming back to Bristol for the Deadpunk All Dayer at the Exchange.

I wish I could say it wasn’t as predictable as having a ‘eureka’ moment, but the truth is, it was. Warren Mallia must have been two songs into his set when for the first time in as long as I could remember, I felt happy. I looked around the room at all of the other like minded people having fun, and thought to myself - this is what I want my life to go back to. This is the solution. You would think that after years of being miserable, the solution would have come to me sooner, but I guess it’s better late than never right? As soon as the set ended, I went outside and text my boss to apologise and let him know that when I came into work Monday morning, I would be handing my notice in, moving back to Bristol and putting the important things and people back in my life.  

It’s impossible to know if it is the case,  and perhaps dramatic to say that Warrens set saved my life, but let’s leave it as this: beforehand, I had hit rock bottom and couldn’t see a way out. A week later, I had discovered my old self and instead of losing sleep fretting over all of the negative things that might happen, I was losing sleep thinking ‘holy shit, imagine if the Don Ramos Players started playing again and played the Exchange with the Attika State!!’.

It’s so easy when things aren’t going well to analyse every single little thing and think about how long things have been bad, and how there is no hope of change. It’s even easier however to forget to take a moment to pause when things are going well, and realise how good things are. Fortunately for me, not long after settling back in Bristol, I had that positive moment of realisation. I’m sure at this stage, you have guessed it, but it happened at the Exchange.  I went to the release show for an EP called Call in Sick. During the set, I picked up on the lyric “maybe we should spend our evening just reading books and drinking tea”. I caught my partners eye and without saying a word, knew that we had found our feet again. I realised  in that room that a long and dark period of my life had ended. Watching live music in Bristol is my happy place, and I will fight tooth and nail never to lose it. For that, and many other reasons (remember when Lightyear played Pack of Dogs 3 times?!?), the Exchange will always mean so much to me. It’s also worth pointing out the name of the EP for anyone who is suffering from poor mental health as a result of work. I certainly wish that I did.

When we hear about small venues in trouble, the conversation is often based around successful musicians and bands that have started out in small venues. Using Idles, who at the time of writing this are taking the world by storm as an example. Be it playing at, or working at, the Exchange helped that happen. That is exciting, and can’t be ignored.  What excites me more though isn’t who is on the stage, it’s the people attending. There are thousands, and if we start talking worldwide, millions of people who have become who they are today because of small venues.  Some of them discovered beliefs and causes to fight for. Some of them found out that there are others out there to encourage and support them in standing up for what they think is right.  Let’s also not forget the fun side of things…. Places like the Exchange are where you fall in love, or forge lifetime friendships.

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