One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans

One Eyed Jacks is the premiere venue in the French Quarter for touring alternative acts. We offer backstage room, 400 person capacity concert room, full-sized stage and P.A., In-House Engineers, local promotion, and a vibe no other venue can match.

Previously, the space had been used as a movie theatre in the 30s, then a porn theatre, and eventually became The Toulouse Theatre nightclub which had James Booker playing piano in the front bar nightly.

Rio Hackford and Ryan Hesseling, along with general manger Cory Allen, founded One Eyed Jacks. The seductive red, black and gold decor echoes Mexican saloons and bordellos: velvet-flocked damask wallpaper, black-velvet paintings of half-clad senoritas and matadors, votives, mirrors, a giant chandelier. A horseshoe-shaped bar dominates the main room and a heavily draped stage evokes the Toulouse Theatre that was housed in the building so long ago. Tucked in a cozy corner above a padded booth hangs a framed One-Eyed Jacks movie poster.

Bands who have played on our stage:

The Breeders, Joan Baez, Queens of the Stone Age, Spoon, Lindsey Buckingham, The Civil Wars, Deerhunter, Hurray For The Riff Raff, HAIM, Black Lips, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Guided By Voices, Alabama Shakes, Charles Bradley, Lee Fields, Thurston Moore, Roky Erikson, Ty Segall, Jay Reatard, Boris, Jeff Mangum, Caddywhompus, Galactic, Youth Lagoon, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Foxygen, Kurt Vile, Sebadoh, Swans, Typhoon, tUnE-yArDs, Monotonix, Thee Oh Sees, EYEHATEGOD, The Dodos, Lost Bayou Ramblers, The Sword, Black Joe Lewis, Peaches, M. Ward, Washed Out, Pinback, Meat Puppets, The Melvins, Dr. Dog, The Revivalists, Dax Riggs, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mudhoney, Deafheaven, The Orwells, Father John Misty, The Silver Jews, Eagles of Death Metal, The Bad Plus, Garage A Trois, Old 97’s, Cursive, Portugal. The Man, Givers, Akron Family, Warpaint, The Walkmen, The Head and The Heart, The Black Angels, Olivia Tremor Control, Toro Y Moi, WHY? + MORE