The Thekla is a live music venue and club located on a moored boat in Bristol's Floating Harbour. The boat itself was built in Germany in 1959 and was used for more than 20 years to transport timber around the Baltic Sea. It ran aground in Kent in 1974, and after being used as a club throughout the '90s and early '00s, it was bought and refurbished to its present state in 2006.