The Joiners
The Joiners is a small music venue in a former pub on St Mary Street, St Mary's, Southampton, England. It has played host to many up-and-coming bands. The pub started having live acts in the back room in 1968. The maximum capacity is 200 people. The venue is a member of the Music Venue Trust and is perusing a campaign for their land to be owned by the trusts' Music Venue Properties.
History
In December 2006, writer Oliver Gray published a book entitled Access One Step: The Official History of the Joiners Arms, which documents the history of the venue and includes a foreword by Razorlight drummer Andy Burrows.In 2013 and 2015 the venue was named Britain's best small music venue in a competition run by NME.
The Joiners ran a crowdfunder in 2017 to have emergency repairs covered, with a target of £7,000, it reached £9,275 in six days.
During the COVID-19 pandemic the venue was forced to close with the national lockdowns that took place over 2020 and 2021. Southampton City Council provided £25,000 in support to the venue whilst closed and Frank Turner did a livestream concert there and raised over £10,000 for the venue. Southampton rock band Creeper were one of their first set of non-socially distanced concert they organised
In November 2025, the building was purchased by Music Venue Properties, a charitable community benefit society which acts as a "supportive and benevolent landlord" for grassroots music venues.