What’s On

OAYSIS perform tunes such as Supersonic, Don’t Look Back In Anger, Wonderwall and more with absolute accuracy.

This is the closet thing to seeing OASIS live, check their videos. They’ll bring the spirit of Knebworth to you!

The Best of Grohl is the ultimate rock show dedicated to the legendary rock icon Dave Grohl.

This four-piece powerhouse delivers an electrifying rock show that will transport you through the iconic hits of Grohl’s illustrious career through bands such as Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age, Tenacious D, Probot & Them Crooked Vultures.

Strawberry Fair Listening Party: judging panel for bands applying for Strawberry Fair gig spots.

Join us on Wednesday 29th January for a night of trivia and reminiscing of the past year, hosted by Cambridge’s favourite punmaster Bruno!

Quiz starts at 7:30pm in our main bar, £2 per entry, with half the money going to our nominated charity BREAK.

Cash & Prizes to be won!

Reserve your table here or phone 01223 357268

DISCHARGE live gig presented by Fringe Theory

Discharge changed the face of punk – and indeed extreme music itself – with their stunning outpouring of pure intensity that boiled punk down to its basic components of rage, frustration and violent rebellion. Discharge stumbled upon a sound that was so ugly, it was beautiful; so horrifying, it was irresistible – and it ushered in a whole new wave of gnarlier, nastier UK punk, and ultimately paved the way for hardcore and thrash.

In 2016, Discharge have signed to Nuclear Blast Records, to unleash their single ‘New World Order’, and the aptly-titled album ‘End Of Days’ which reached #10 in The Official UK Rock Charts and have been playing to sold out crowds in America and in Europe.

Discharge are seemingly unstoppable, and a thousand bands spawned in their wake, making them one of the few bands to have fathered their very own genre, Discore or D-Beat as it’s now widely known around the world. Many of the songs from the band’s formative years have been covered by some of the biggest names in rock and metal music: Metallica, Anthrax, Sepultura, Machine Head, Prong, Soulfly, Arch Enemy to name but a few.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRgYGkxB7iA

After a successful series of events in 2024, Beats & Rhymes relaunches at the Portland Arms!

Saturday 1st February kicks the series off with rap artists from Cambridgeshire and surrounding counties:

Samuel & Harvs Le Toad
JDRLY (Savage Streets Records)
Steljay
Saint Black
J Cliff & Mr B (4 The Culture Records)
Trizzle (appearing on BBC Radio 1Xtra)
Mr Melta (Runt Life Records)
SK The Villain
Mixdat Squad (DJ set)
Open-mic cypher hosted by One Wish

Raising funds for CamSkate, who are running The Warehouse, Cambridge’s first indoor skatepark, run by the community, for the community!

£1 from each ticket will be donated to CamSkate.

Selling “The Hip-Hop Show” and “Beats & Rhymes” merchandise

Goth Rock band Senex IV with support from David Middle

A celebration of the release of the debut album from David Middle.

Emily Barker is an award-winning singer-songwriter, best known as the writer and performer of the theme to the hugely successful BBC crime drama “Wallander” starring Kenneth Branagh.

Her last album, 2020’s “A Dark Murmuration of Words”, was produced by Greg Freeman and recorded at StudiOwz, a converted chapel in the Welsh countryside. Lyrically probing, by turns both dark and optimistic, Barker searches for meaning through the deafening clamour of fake news and algorithmically filtered conversation, delivering a timely exploration of the grand themes of our age. It garnered widespread acclaim, with Uncut calling it “…a kind of Australian equivalent of PJ Harvey’s ‘Let England Shake'”.

Barker has released music and toured as a solo artist as well as with various bands and collaborations, most notably her long association with Frank Turner, and has written for TV and film, including composing the soundtrack for Jake Gavin’s lauded debut feature “Hector” starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen.

WE’RE BACK, BAYBAY!!

Join us for a multi-game tournament on classic arcade games tbc, as well as retro console classics on the SNES, Mega Drive and arcade cabinets. Played live and loud from the iconic Portland Arms venue.

INTRODUCING: THE PK TRIATHLON.
3 events, 3 genres, 1 leaderboard, 1 WINNER.

Free entry to the tournament for those wanting a challenge as well as machines on free-play for the spectators and casual gamers to try!

Prizes including merch, free drinks and Portland Pounds to the winners!
Register your interest by dropping us a line on our socials or email us at post@theportlandarms.co.uk

The 900 are the UK’s first and only “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” cover band. Formed by their mutual understanding that no other soundtrack could ever top THPS, The 900 gives you a reason for your back to hurt in the morning. With the approval of the Birdman himself, as well as Goldfinger’s John Feldmann, they’re ready to kickflip into every big banger from THPS1 to American Wasteland.

Expect to hear tunes spanning all the games including AFI, Alien Ant Farm, Bad Religion, Black Flag, CKY, Dead Kennedys, Goldfinger, Green Day, Lagwagon, Less Than Jake, Millencolin, Motorhead, NOFX, Papa Roach, Powerman 5000, Rage Against The Machine, The Ramones, Refused, Suicidal Tendencies, System of a Down and many more!

£1 from each ticket will be donated to CamSkate.

King Awesome are the ultimate tribute to those explosive late 80s nights on L.A.’s Sunset Strip where big riffs and even bigger hair ruled the airwaves; where you rocked all night and partied all day; when your rallying cry was ‘nothin’ but a good time!

Following hard in the footsteps of their 80s heroes, King Awesome fuse blistering riffs, anthemic choruses and an incendiary live show full of high kicks, fists pumps and tongue-in-cheek references to all your favourite 80s cliches! With an ‘all killer: no filler’ greatest hits set of Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Guns N’ Roses, Poison, Whitesnake and all their hard-rockin’ amigos, King Awesome hold their crowds in the palm of their leather-gloved hands and partying like it’s 1989!

9 piece Jazz and Funk band

Bands TBC

Our regular night of mirth.

Singles & B-Sides Tour

So you know 10 Years Asleep, Really Scrape the Sky, Lucy’s Down and Eat Yourself Whole right? Maybe Armchair Anarchist and Two Headed Yellow Bellied Hole Digger?

But how about Celebrated Working Man? And what about those B-sides?

Over five years in the early 90s Hull’s finest indie rockers produced almost 30 tracks that never made it on to albums; the likes of Everything’s Changed Since You’ve Been To London, Kissing Under Anaesthetic, I’m In Love and Another Bad Dose of Home Truths.

For the first time ever the band will play a set including all their A- sides and a selection of their favourite back up tracks.

Approximate times:
19:00 doors open
19:30 support
20:15 Kingmaker