Sanctuary Burnley

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Sanctuary Burnley 3 floor multi-genre live music venue, with an incredible, warm & friendly atmosphere like no other. community. Over 18's Only
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Sanctuary Rock Bar has been THE alternative venue in Burnley for over a decade. It was born in 2005, providing a pub, club and live venue to the alt. Sanctuary comprises of three floors playing the best Rock, Metal, Reggae, Ska, Alternative, Electro, Indie, Punk, theme tunes and Party Anthems, with spaces for partying hard, pub chats and chilling out. We host some of the best original bands around, along with local, tribute, cover and internationally renowned bands every weekend, in addition to regular Clubnights and quiz nights. Fridays are our main Clubnights, including 'Drop It Like It's Sanc', our regular Metal vs Hiphop night, and 'Where's Mavis?', the legendary Preston clubnight. We also occasionally have bands on Fridays, with our resident Friday DJ, Jammie O'Brien, rocking the decks until the early hours with the best in contemporary Metal, Rock and Party Anthems. Saturdays are our main band nights, with bands covering all genres playing on our stage, followed by Kev 'n Bobby bringing you Classic Metal & Rock, along with Anthems, Glam and NWOBHM tunes. Sundays are our Quiz nights, brought to you by Trash Mandigoh with his Mouthful Of Quiz, where there's a gallon of beer to be won every week! We are proud to be in association with Bloodstock Festival, hosting METAL 2 THE MASSES each year, where bands from all over the North West come together in a battle of the bands, with the winner going on to play at Bloodstock Festival that same year. We also have official Bloodstock Clubnights where incredible bands come to have a mad party with us, full of prizes and giveaways. We've had UK Subs, HECK, Exit State, ICON, The Dead XIII, Sexwolf!, Lawnmower Deth, Evile, Beholder, and Evil Scarecrow play at Sanctuary, in some cases we were very early supporters of the bands in their formulative days before they went on to huge things. They rarely forget Sanctuary, either, regularly returning due to the unique atmosphere and the way we're set up. As for the drinkers amongst you, we have you covered! We've got an awesome range of beers, ales, ciders and spirits, an entire menu of insane bombs, and loads of deals and offers, along with £2 drinks for students every Friday until midnight! No night is complete without a random stranger doing a head count and buying a round of Cherry Bakewell shots for everyone at the bar! So, from the first floor, where you can chat, drink, play a round of pool and have a few pints, to the second floor, where you can pump your fist, Party Hard and catch the best live music around, to the third floor where you can catch your breath and chat, Sanctuary gives you everything! Sanctuary is going from strength to strength, with more and more exciting events planned for 2016 and beyond, so come down, have a beer and PARTY HARD!!!

Wow! 🤩 What an absolutely incredible Halloween that was!! ☠️🎃👻Huge shout outs to our incredible Sanctuary Team for all t...
01/11/2026

Wow! 🤩 What an absolutely incredible Halloween that was!! ☠️🎃👻

Huge shout outs to our incredible Sanctuary Team for all their hard work on our busiest night of the year!
Dave and Flynn keeping you all safe, Bailey on the door, Sam, Sami, Nat and Roo keeping your drinks flowing and vibes bouncing, Denz and Leni keeping the back bar going! Ren on sound and Kev keeping those tunes going!!! What a cracking team, thank you all! 🖤

Massive thanks to 5th Element for an incredible performance! It was a pleasure to have you back on our stage! 🎸

And lastly, thank you to all our frightfully amazing customers for all your efforts with your costumes and for spending Halloween with us once again! 🎃

We hope you all had as much fun as we did! Drop your photos in the comments!

Happy Gothmas from Team Sanc! 🖤

01/11/2026

Hell yeah, Burnley, it's good to be back! We had fiendishly good fun playing Sanctuary Burnley last night - you folks always rock Halloween right! 😎

Massive thanks to Carly and her partner Johnny for having us back on, and to ace sound engineer Ren and DJ extraordinaire Kev Lynch for their superb skills on desk and decks 🤘

Special thanks to the awesome Kate and Ben, the terrific (and terrifying!) Ian Foster, the fabulous Richard Clay, Richard Bideau and the gang (we missed you guys!), top tog Phil Max Range and his lovely lady, the ace, Airbourne-loving Gale Campbell, mosh pit mentals Ryan Mercer and Raz Griffin (loving the videos, guys, especially your rendition of Fear of the Dark!), and everyone who came out to make our Halloween frightfully good fun 👻

The costumes were, as always, out of this world. For us, the winner of the 'most terrifying' category was definitely Ian Foster, while the 'most bizarre' category was 100% sewn up by Noo-Noo from the Tellytubbies. Zombie Mr Blobby and his blow-up baby took the gold in the 'something that none of us needed to see but is now living rent-free in our heads' event, and the zombie army soldier costume was just absolutely superb 👌

Thanks again, folks, and hopefully see you all again soon!

01/11/2026

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Cow Lane
Burnley
BB111NN

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Friday 3:30pm - 4am
Saturday 3:30pm - 4am
Sunday 6pm - 12am

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