The Gov

BEST LIVE MUSIC VENUE IN ADELAIDE! “love the gov”. Amazing venue to experience live music, fantastic food and the friendliest staff, an absolute Adelaide icon.

Fresh salads 🥗, amazing fish & chips 🐟🍟, and thin & crispy pizzas 🍕 that are totally worth it. Drinks are always cold and refreshing 🍹❄️. Super friendly staff 🤗 and a really sweet vibe ✨. Great food, live music 🎶, and fun performances 🎤 hands down the best pub in Adelaide

Probably one of my favourite gig venues to date! Super friendly and chilled staff. Love the lively music environment and the hot chips there were great too! I particularly love the balance of the place: - you can be right up at the stage, intimately enjoying live music - you can hang out in cozy booths under pretty lights - you can hang out in the pub area inside, still within earshot of tunes - you can listen to the live music and still have a clear view of the stage while having a smoke outside, hanging out on stools or outdoor couches - the bar area is well-placed with ease of access - the merchandise areas are easy to get to aswell! Was really awesome experiencing a heavy music gig in an intimate space (that would usually be very sweaty and claustrophobic) with plenty of fresh air flowing in! Absolutely will be back when I get the chance!

Love the old style pub vibes and there is always something on here to. Have seen some good bands here at the venue. It's also a good spot for a Guinness before a show at the AEC.

Awesome live music venue. Good wine list to accompany pub meal menu.

We hosted a party in the balcony space at The Gov and had an incredible experience! Everything from the staff, the food, the help with questions and support with the decorations, was top notch! It's fantastic value for money and would highly recommend this venue to others for their event.

Good place to watch big and small gigs. Decent food and a PLENTY of space. This place has a mix of areas- ranging from the intimate small stage and living room type area to regular front bar to big dining area to concert venue for 700 people. Nice beer selection.

First time visiting the Gov to eat, thoroughly enjoyed my experience. I had a fantastic dinner and drinks. Gov had fabulous menu options (had a handmade pie for dinner wow!) and a thoroughly pleasant atmosphere. Waitress Amani was accommodating to all of our needs (complicated as they were) and helped us out above and beyond. Will visit again and stay for the music next time! Thank you team at the Gov.

I hadn't been back to The Gov in about 15-20 years and I was surprised to see it's almost exactly the same as it was, just with even less seating, which is concerning because of the advancements other venues have made to accommodate disabled people and accessibility seating. We contacted the venue prior to the show and were told to arrive half an hour before doors opened. We had to wait almost until the other customers were let in with no seating offered to us. We weren't escorted to seating, it was simply a get in and grab what you can moment. We weren't shown around to where the bathrooms, etc were, which is pretty much standard at other venues. The whole point of requesting accessibility seating is because you can't stand up for long, but then you're expected to stand for almost half an hour when they know nothing of your limitations. We were given two choices, booths or bar stools positioned in front of little bars. The booths are sideways to the stage and not practical for actually viewing the stage, so we opted for the bar stools. I have never felt more like I don't matter. I had people constantly bumping into me even though they had room, I had a beer poured down my back, I also had to constantly try and communicate to people to not stand directly in front of me when I can't stand up myself, at one point having to hold up the sign saying the seats were for accessibility customers, it was humiliating. I just paid $90 to look at the back of peoples' heads and see almost nothing of one of my favourite bands play. The Entertainment Centre has a sectioned off platform at GA shows for people to be seated if they can't stand and organise it prior, the platform is raised so you can actually see the show. I'm not saying to go to that extent, but surely there's something that can be done to improve this venue's accessibility as well.