Bands who have played The Local include: Francoiz Breut, Adem, Devon Sproule, Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo, Babel, One Little Plane, Liz Green, Shearwater, Denis Jones, Nancy Wallace, Alasdair Roberts, She Keeps Bees, Alela Diane, Serafina Steer, Nancy Elizabeth, Birdengine, Karima Francis, Dead Meadow, Phosphorescent, The Owl Service, Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards, Orphans and Vandals, The Constantines, Aidan Smith, Agaskodo Teliverek, The Sleeping Years, Olivia Chaney, Trembling Bells, Baby Dee, Viking Moses; The Miserable Rich, Sleeping States; ApaTt, Quack Quack, Liz Green, Plants and Animals, Brakes, The Chap, The Travelling Band, Birdengine, Speck Mountain, Adrian Crowley, Mary Hampton, Spencer Devere, Ill Ease, Sam Amidon, The Cave Singers, Silje Nes, Econoline, Natty; Hush The Many; Bikini Atoll; Broken Family Band; Kyote; Thee More Shallows; Rose Kemp; Aaron Stout; Moris Tepper; Son Of Dave, Essie Jain, Paul the Girl; Simon Breed; Damon and Naomi; King Creosote; The Other Band; Rod Stern; Last Harbour; Saint Joan; Mister Lee; Piney Gir; The Aphrodisiacs; Madam; Don Nino; Gran Capitan; Barbarossa; Dragon Or Emporer, Emmy the Great; Sonovagun; Tunng; David Thomas Broughton; Songs of My Lap; The Memory Band; Tom Brosseau; The Downs; Clayhill; Hunter's Loaf; Alucidnation; Eva Abraham; Robert Jesse; Simon Lord; Pete Lawrence (DJ); Tobias Froberg; Jack Ladder; Serafina Steer; Singing Adams; Viarosa; Emma Tricca; Nina Nastasia; Jeremy Warmsley; Little Sparta; Piney Gir's Country Roadshow; Hazey Jane; Voice of the Seven Woods; Zombie Zombie; Benjamin Wetherill; Caroline Martin; The Laughing Windows; Ted Barnes; John Smith; Virgin Passages; Bicycle Thieves; Samuel Beer;..