The Venue Dumfries

The Venue Dumfries Independent Grassroots Music Venue and Nightclub situated in Dumfries, South West Scotland Spread over 2 floors, we host a variety of music to cater for all.

Established in 1999, The Venue is a locally owned and operated, independent grassroots music venue and nightclub situated in the town of Dumfries, Scotland. The SkyBar on the 2nd floor offers a selection of current and classic pop tunes, whereas The Ballroom on the 1st floor plays a selection of dance music old and new. The Ballroom also transforms into an early doors, mixed seated and standing ve

nue for live music. Doors open for gigs at 7pm and run until 10pm and can be found by pressing "more" then the "events" tab on Facebook or visiting our website at www.thevenuedumfries.co.uk
Friday nightclub commences at 11pm, Saturday is from 9pm, both nights run through until 3am. We also host a few local club nights which bring a great selection of local and international talent to our stage. Best Bar None Silver Award Winner 2013/14 and Gold Award Winner 2014-15. Although The Venue has been around for the past 27 years, this prominent grade B listed building has entertained Dumfries for decades! Many may remember it as “The Loft” and “Club Excel” in the 90s, “Judy Chicago’s” and “The Oasis” in the 80s and “Oughton’s” in the 70s, which have all proven a popular night out with the locals over the years. If you've never been, try it! it's reasonably priced on the door and on the bar. We cater for all ages and our resident DJs are flexible in their sets and welcome requests. All live music events are restricted to 14+ accompanied by an adult over 18, or 16+ unaccompanied. Nightclub events are strictly 18+
ID is always required as standard and we operate an under 25 ID age check policy.

Tickets are selling fast for our Day Disco! Make sure to get a hold of yours SOON! Just a reminder this is a PHYSICAL ti...
30/08/2026

Tickets are selling fast for our Day Disco! Make sure to get a hold of yours SOON!
Just a reminder this is a PHYSICAL ticket event which are on sale from The Venue itself on Monday, Friday and Sunday afternoons.
Hope to see you all there! We’re looking forward to it!

20/08/2026

It's sometimes hard to believe that Eddie, Trevor, Liam and Robbie formed Tiderays in January of 2017. TEN YEARS and twice as many line ups, and we're still going!
To celebrate this, Eddie, Trevor, Isla, Stewart, Grant and Tom are playing a special anniversary show on January 16th 2027. And who knows? We may be able to drag up some old faces!

But what makes it so special you ask? Well, we trawled back through the archives to find out how much we charged for our very first headlining gig at The Live Lounge in Dumfries in January 2017. It was 7 quid, so for our anniversary gig, we're charging, 7 QUID! (plus booking fee ;-) You see what we did there!

The gig is at the fantastic The Venue Dumfries with support from BLANC (who are too young to have Facebook), and special guests Moniker (who are also probably too cool for Facebook).

Anyhoo. Tickets are on sale NOW!!! 👇👇👇👇👇

https://tinyurl.com/mbn9fxb

Some photos from the weekend
18/08/2026

Some photos from the weekend

Address

6-7 Church Place
Dumfries
DG11BW

Opening Hours

Friday 11pm - 3am
Saturday 9pm - 3am

Telephone

+441387263623

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