Voted BEST SMALL BAR in the Nottingham Bar Awards 2009, The Bodega, is located in the Hockley area of Nottingham City Centre, offering the best in live music and club events. The Bodega has showcased some of the most famous bands around to date, and boasts one of the nicest beer gardens in the City Centre.

Other than our daily bar downstairs which runs from 4pm weekdays and 12pm on Saturdays, till later than everywhere else, we have a range of club nights from the likes of Electric Banana, The Pop Confessional, The Lost Boyz, Size, Celluloid Jam, Pitty Patt Burlesque Night, Highness Soundsystem and Barefooting, as well as regular downstairs DJ sets from Out of the Woods, Crystal Wolf, Stiff Kittens, Late of the Pier and many more….

Band wise in the past year, Mumford and Sons, The XX, Marina and The Diamonds, Wild Beasts, Frightened Rabbit, The Joy Formidable, Late of the Pier (Secret Show), The Antlers, Wave Machines, Hot Club de Paris, Girls, and many more…. In the past years, MGMT, Glasvegas, Ting Tings, ShyChild, Fleet Foxes, Metronomy, Black Lips, Meneguar, Tokyo Police Club, HEALTH, Abe Vigoda, Jay Reatard, Lovvers, Adam Green, Mystery Jets, Why? Of Montreal, Supergrass (Secret Show,) Health, Feist and many more have played...

Further back we have had the following bands play in our venue; The Strokes, The Libertines, Coldplay, White Stripes, Hard Fi, Bright Eyes, Foals, Klaxons, The View, The Rakes, Bloc Party, KT Tunstall, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Scissor Sisters, The Kooks...