The Trades Club is a socialist members cooperative, club, bar and music venue in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Built in 1923 as a joint enterprise by half a dozen local trade unions & brought back to life in 1982.

The bar is open to all daily, Mon-Fri 4pm till late & Sat-Sun 12pm till late.

‘The hippest venue in the North’  The Guardian
‘The best small venue in the UK’ Q Magazine

Coming Soon

Nick Mulvey | The Wedding Present | BC Camplight | Tunng | Boy Azooga | The Orielles | Brix and the Extricated | British Sea Power| LAU | Henge | Seafret | Ultrasound | Marion | Jane Siberry | Mr Wilson’s Second Liners | Soft Machine and more..

Recent Guests

Patti Smith | Mark Lanegan | Natalie Merchant | Teenage Fanclub | Laura Marling | IDLES | Ezra Furman | Loudon Wainwright III | The Fall | Slaves | The House Of Love | KT Tunstall | Matthew E. White | Teenage Fanclub | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Ash | Michael Head | Edwyn Collins | Everything Everything | Fat White Family | Killing Joke | The Unthanks | Richard Hawley | Marc Almond | Frank Turner | Sunflower Bean |  Band Of Skulls | British Sea Power | I Am Kloot | Blossoms | Thurston Moore | The Go! Team | Beth Orton | Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe | Lee Scratch Perry | The Orielles | St Etienne | Alexis Taylor & Green Gartside | Donovan | Moonlandingz | Adam Buxton | Martha Wainwright | Julian Cope | LUMP [Laura Marling + Mike Lindsay] | CocoRosie | Buzzcocks | Sleaford Mods | Joan As Police Woman | Ian McCulloch | Badly Drawn Boy | Heaven 17 | Public Service Broadcasting | Blanck Mass | George Ezra | Teleman | Peter Hook & The Light | Dutch Uncles | Sylvain Sylvain from the New York Dolls | Ron Sexsmith | Cherry Ghost | The Slow Readers Club | A Certain Ratio | Julie Byrne | Andrew Weatherall | Rae Morris | Richard Dawson | Peter Perrett | Goat Girl | Laetitia Sadier | Jane Weaver | Kristin Hersh | Wolfgang Flür [Kraftwerk] | Shonen Knife | King Creosote | Reverend & The Makers | Hookworms | Villagers | The Staves | Gruff Rhys | Camera Obscura | WIRE | Teddy Thompson | Josh T Pearson | This Is The Kit | Andrew Weatherall | Terry Hall | Jim Jones Revue | Moon Duo | James Lavelle | Mary Gauthier | Wilko Johnson | The High Llamas | The Handsome Family | Tracey Thorn | Ed Harcourt | Swervedriver | Damo Suzuki | Mark Eitzel |  Jon Ronson | Cerys Matthews | Steve Tilston | Smoke Fairies | Turin Brakes | Kevin Rowland | Amber Arcades | ERC Feat Maxine Peake | Viv Albertine | TOY | Scritti Politti | The Pretty Things | Lloyd Cole | The Big Moon | The Strypes | Robyn Hitchcock | Sonic Boom | Nadine Shah | Mike Watt | Jah Wobble & Keith Levene | International Teachers of Pop | Don Letts | Jerry Dammers | Martha Tilston | Laetitia Sadier | The Orb | Willy Mason | Chuck Prophet | Laura Veirs | The Handsome Family | Ren Harvieu | Inspiral Carpets | Fairport Convention | Hurray for the Riff Raff  | Barry Adamson | BC Camplight | Go Kart Mozart | Girl Ray | Kathryn Williams