Diamond Pub & Billiards
From Louisville Punk/Hardcore History
630 Barret Ave., Louisville, KY
Replaced Jillians and served as the name implies, a bar & grill space with a shit ton of pool tables. A back room would serve as a live music space with a capacity of 500 people. In a way you could call this space Terry's Last Stand. Despite leaning more into touring bands, locals would play there. Closed over a lease dispute in January 2022, with Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss as the last live band there. It's been replaced with Railyard's Pub & Billiards while the back room for live performances remains vacant.
There was also a second Diamond's on Frankfort Ave. that also closed in January 2022, rebranded as The Fox Den
Selected Performers at Diamond's
Louisville
- Batwizard
- The Burial
- Bush League
- Call Me Bronco
- Flaw
- (ohlm) (played there the most)
- The Revenants
- Shi
- Stagecoach Inferno
- Stonecutters
- The Stoner Moms
- VAMT
- Vice Tricks
Other
- Andrew W.K.
- Bam Margera
- Carcass (set a record for day-of ticket sales in 2014)
- Doyle
- Nita Strauss (last performer at Diamond's)
- The Obsessed
- Parliament-Funkadelic
- The Queers
- Raven (FREE show)
- The Skull