The Cluny
Music venue, pub, and restaurant in the Ouseburn Valley on the southern edge of Jesmond. Renowned live music programme, weekend brunches, and a beer garden overlooking the valley.
About The Cluny
The Cluny is a live music venue, bar and cafe in a former flax spinning mill on Lime Street in Newcastle's Ouseburn Valley, just south of Jesmond. With a capacity of around 300, it is one of the area's best-known grassroots stages, mixing local acts with touring national and international artists, and operates a second smaller room, The Cluny 2. The bar is known for a wide range of real ales and world beers, favouring local and independent breweries, and the kitchen serves pub food including locally sourced burgers. Part of a wider building shared with artists' studios and offices, it functions as a bar, gallery and gig venue combined.
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A 300-capacity live music venue in a converted Victorian flax mill on the edge of Jesmond. The Cluny has hosted Arctic Monkeys, Mumford & Sons, and hundreds of emerging acts.
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Upcoming Events
Events that feature or are connected to The Cluny.
The Long Ryders
7:00 PM · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
A Certain Ratio: Sextet and Force
7:30 PM · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Tha Alkaholiks
7:30 PM · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Tired of Fighting
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
The Woosh Club October
See booking · Cluny 2, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Death Valley Girls
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
John Adams
See booking · Cluny 2, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
King No-One
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Jamie Grey
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
The Dunwells
See booking · Cluny 2, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
John Hackett Band and EBB
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Venus Grrrls
See booking · Cluny 2, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Toxic Trio Tour: Type of Negative, Pantera AD and Robbed Zombie
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Shannon Pearl: The Resurrection
See booking · Cluny 2, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
The Fiend Club Band
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Mae Stephens
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Butch Kassidy
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Midwife and Devin Shaffer
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Cut Capers
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Cola
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Hail the Sun
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Gypsy Pistoleros
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Birdvox
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Gently Tender and 60 juno
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Barbican Estate
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Jill Andrews
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Nic Cage Against The Machine
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
An Dannsa Dub
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
The Jam'd
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
PALES
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Small Fakers
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Asomvel
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Seattle Thrift Store - a live tribute to Grunge
7:00 PM · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Aaron Rowe and Scarlett Loran
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Dan Patlansky and Ashley Sherlock
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Ian McNabb
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
The Bracknall
7:30 PM · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Just Radiohead
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Flump Toulouse
See booking · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Past Events
Recent events connected to The Cluny.
An Evening with Kristin Hersh at Cluny 2
6 October 2026 · Cluny 2, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Zion Train
2 October 2026 · The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Little Barrie
22 September 2026 · The Cluny, Ouseburn, Newcastle
Archie Brown and the Young Bucks: Buddy Album Launch
22 September 2026 · Cluny 2, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, NE1 2PQ
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