The Ferret

9.2 / 10

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Bar Restaurant Soul food restaurant

The home of live music in Preston! Your grassroots music venue. Event listings at: www.theferret.live The Ferret is the most popular grassroots live music venue in Preston, Lancashire. With a 200 capacity live room, equipped with an excellent stage, lighting rig and sound system - The Ferret offers a range of gig nights each week covering many genres. Read more From IDLES to Catfish and the Bottlemen, from Buzzcocks to Wheatus & Ed Sheeran... they've all been through our doors. We run upwards of 200+ gigs a year, averaging 3 bands a show and giving chances to unsigned bands weekly - and we are not the only ones - Indie venues are the lifeblood of the music industry. Some of the bands who have appeared at the Ferret are notably: A Certain Ratio // alt-j // Badly Drawn Boy // Billy Nomates // Bob Vylan // Buzzcocks // Cabbage // Catfish & The Bottlemen // Circa Waves // Ed Sheeran // IDLES // Space // Terrorvision // The Amazons // The Orielles // The Sherlocks // Twisted Wheel // We Are Scientists // Wheatus // Wolfgang Flür (ex-Kraftwerk) // Working Mens Club // B. Dolan // Bodega // Bo Ningen // Discharge // Evil Blizzard // Fuzzy Sun // Ghostpoet // Ginger Wildheart // Gnod // Goldie Lookin Chain // Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage // Jehst // Justin Robertson // Lucy Spraggan // Ozric Tentacles // Peace // Peaness // Pete & Bas // Pip Blom // Pulled Apart By Horses // Rae Morris // Red Rum Club // Red Snapper // Ren Harvieu // Royal Blood // Scalping // She Drew The Gun // The Blinders // The Capital // The Goa Express // The Howl & The Hum // The K's // The King Blues // The Lottery Winners // The Lounge Society // The Lovely Eggs // The Primitives // The Skinner Brothers // The Wave Pictures // The Woodentops // Thomas Headon // We Were Promised Jetpacks // Average Sex // Bull // Calva Louise // Chris Helme (The Seahorses) // Deco // Deja Vega // Do Nothing // Henge // JOHN // John Bramwell (I Am Kloot) // Jon Gomm // Mark Morriss (The Bluetones) // Misty’s Big Adventure // Nathan Fake // Nick Harper // Nigel Clark (Dodgy) // Panic Shack // Part Chimp // Strange Bones // Young Guns... to name but a few! The Ferret also hosts regular open Mics and Open Decks giving local talent a chance to use the great facilities. Plus occasional Quiz nights and Spoken Word evenings. The venue is situated opposite 53 Degrees and ve Update description

Address:

55 Fylde Road
Preston

Telephone:

01772 200017

Web site:

theferret.live ⇒

Opening hours:

Tuesday: 19:00-23:00

Wednesday: 19:00-00:00

Thursday: 19:00-00:00

Friday: 16:00-02:00

Saturday: 16:00-02:00

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2016-04-24

A real hidden gem - can't believe we didn't know about this place before now! Great atmosphere, friendly staff, amazing food at reasonable prices and...

2018-05-21

Love it - Great venue. One of the best around ✅

2018-04-22

First time tonight x certainly won’t be the last x food was spot on as was the service x thank you x see you soon xx

2017-08-21

Good food and terrific band, Fat Jack's Garage. Nice pub, friendly staff.

2017-08-18

Great beer, friendly staff we didn't try the food but it looked absolutely amazing, drove up from Sunny Manchester to watch TheMansun tribute band , I...

2017-08-14

Superb food (I got a burger at 2pm & was still stuffed at 11pm!) really helpful, friendly staff, I took my 14-year-old son who is the worlds fussiest...

2017-07-23

Absolutely fantastic time, atmosphere and the food was amazing . Would recommend this place.

2017-07-17

It's Tim's 'ouse innit! Good food, music, beer and cider and I always get totally smashed when i go there.

2017-07-03

Great staff and amazing food. Ordered the Mammoth Ribs and it beat me, meat sweats and everything Good selection of ales too which is one of the...

2017-07-02

Food is brilliant, loads of vegan/veggie options and the service top notch

2017-06-23

BANG ON!

2017-06-22

Foods amazing best I've had in a long time lovely staff very laid back establishment

2017-06-20

This guy is amazing in the ferret, he's a bar tender. Wheres the 10star button.

2017-06-16

I like it on a night out but the vegan burgers have rice in for no reason it tastes like an overcooked packet of uncle bens.

2017-05-27

What great people run this place!! Great food!!! Great music!!!

2017-05-01

Yeah good quiz nice service and brill surrounding s deffo go again

2017-04-29

Enjoyed, no, REALLY enjoyed the Mexican't veggie burger with French fries and a couple great tap beers!!!

2017-04-22

The waiters beard is definitely smoked.. The beer is smoked nicely to i think it has a 20 a day habit but the food is the main thing... They have an...

2017-04-18

Food was good. However not the best smoked BBQ I've ever eaten but by far the best in Preston. The burgers are not smoked. The sandwiches with brisket...

2017-03-20

Absolutely massive potions lovely meat top quality would very highly recommend the ferret we will be going back for the live bands , staff very...

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The Ferret has a total of 23338 visitors (checkins) and 14752 likes.

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