Dorset · 22 gigs · next 4 weeks
13 Nov – 11 Dec
Help keep grassroots venues open in Bournemouth
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Updated 13 November 2026
4 weeks
| Venues with something on | 3 |
| Venues tracked | 30 |
| Open mics | 16 |
| Busiest night | Saturday · 8 gigs |
22 gigs listed in Bournemouth over the next 28 days across 3 venues. Saturday is the busiest night with 8. In total we track 30 grassroots venues and 16 regular open mics here.
6 gigs are on in Bournemouth between Friday and Sunday. Among them: The Sound of Musicals - Poole at St Aldhelm's Church (Saturday), Myles Smith, Chance Peña at Bournemouth International Centre (Saturday) and The Stylistics at Bournemouth Pavilion (Sunday). Every card links the full listing - times, entry and tickets; for the weeks after, scroll to the four-week list.
Starts14:30 The Sound of Musicals - PooleSt Aldhelm's Church · Canford Cliffs · Bournemouth 
Myles Smith, Chance PeñaBournemouth International Centre · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 18:30Sat 14 Nov 
Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues OrchestraBournemouth Pavilion · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 19:30Sat 14 Nov 
Music Is The AnswerBear Cave · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 22:00Sat 14 Nov 
The StylisticsBournemouth Pavilion · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 19:30Sun 15 Nov 
The ShiresLighthouse · Poole Town 19:30Sun 15 Nov Counting every upcoming date, not just the next four weeks, there are 52 gigs listed in and around Bournemouth - third of 7 against its nearest places with live music, behind the Southampton area (171). Each row counts the gigs, venues and open mics our directories hold in and around that place, refreshed nightly; tap a town for its live music scene.
| # | Place | Gigs |
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| 01 | Southampton area 47 venues · 28 open mics | 171 |
| 02 | Bath area 36 venues · 13 open mics | 56 |
| 03 | Bournemouth area This page 30 venues · 16 open mics | 52 |
| 04 | Portsmouth area 30 venues · 17 open mics | 33 |
| 05 | Waterlooville area 12 venues · 11 open mics | 14 |
| 06 | Swindon area 19 venues · 12 open mics | 14 |
| 07 | Weymouth area 18 venues · 12 open mics | 6 |
Four weeks of Bournemouth gigs, 13 Nov to 11 Dec: 22 listings from 3 rooms, with Saturdays the busiest. Where This Weekend stops at Sunday, this keeps going - earliest date first.
Starts14:30 The Sound of Musicals - PooleSt Aldhelm's Church · Canford Cliffs · Bournemouth Myles Smith, Chance PeñaBournemouth International Centre · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 18:30Sat 14 Nov Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues OrchestraBournemouth Pavilion · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 19:30Sat 14 Nov Music Is The AnswerBear Cave · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 22:00Sat 14 Nov The StylisticsBournemouth Pavilion · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 19:30Sun 15 Nov The ShiresLighthouse · Poole Town 19:30Sun 15 Nov 
The Script, James MorrisonBournemouth International Centre · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 18:30Mon 16 Nov 
Urne, Divergent PromotionsBear Cave · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 19:00Mon 16 Nov 
Tony HadleyBournemouth Pavilion · Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth 19:45Mon 16 Nov 
Hothouse FlowersLighthouse · Poole Town · Poole 19:45Wed 18 Nov | Search every Bournemouth gigEverything upcoming, not just the next four weeks |
Which Bournemouth rooms are busiest this week? This ranks venues by how many gigs they have in the next seven nights - a quick way to find where something is on most nights.
| # | Venue | Gigs |
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| 01 | Bournemouth Pavilion | 3 |
| 02 | Bear Cave | 2 |
| 03 | Bournemouth International Centre | 2 |
| 04 | Lighthouse | 2 |
| 05 | St Aldhelm's Church | 1 |
All 30 grassroots rooms we track around Bournemouth, busy or quiet this month, with how many each holds, the kit it has and when it opens. A room's own page shows its upcoming nights.
Photo: Google 1812 LoungeTown centre · Bournemouth 
Barbara's Bier HausTown centre · Bournemouth Cap tbc 
BearcaveBournemouthHouse PA 180Cap 
Brass HausBournemouthHouse PA Cap tbc 
Brewhouse & Kitchen SouthbourneSouthbourne · Bournemouth Cap tbc 
BuffaloWinton · BournemouthHouse PA 90Cap 
CanvasWestbourne & West Cliff · BournemouthHouse PA 300Cap 
Chaplin's & The Cellar BarBoscombe · BournemouthHouse PA 90Cap 
Cricketers ArmsBournemouth Cap tbc 
Lark RiseWinton · BournemouthHouse PA Cap tbc | All 30 Bournemouth venuesCapacity, backline and opening times |
16 regular open mics run around Bournemouth on a fixed night each week or month - no tickets, just turn up. Cards show the sign-up time, the slot length and any fee.
Kick-off20:30 BuffaloWinton · BournemouthNo feeHouse PA Brass HausBournemouthNo feeHouse PAFortnightly 20:00Tue The Anvil15 Holdenhurst Road · BournemouthNo feeFull kit 20:00Tue O'Neill's BournemouthBournemouthNo feeHouse PA 21:00Tue CanvasBournemouthNo feeHouse PA 20:00Wed Lark RiseWinton · BournemouthNo feeHouse PAMonthly 20:00Wed The Sun19-21 Exeter Rd · BournemouthNo feeHouse PA 20:00Wed ZephyrBournemouthNo feeHouse PAFortnightly 20:00Wed Chaplin's & The Cellar BarBoscombe · BournemouthNo feeHouse PA 21:00Wed The Four Horsemen PubBournemouthNo feeHouse PA3rd Thu of the month 19:00Thu | All 16 Bournemouth open micsSign-up times, slots and kit for every night |
Grassroots venues are where every act you have ever paid to see started out. Bournemouth still has 30 of them.
Bournemouth's scene is built around the seafront. The Old Fire Station, O2 Academy Bournemouth, Mr Kyps and Bournemouth Pavilion anchor the venue circuit, while Sandbanks and Westbourne hotels drive a year-round wedding and function market.
Grassroots rooms are disappearing: 78 stopped hosting live music in the year to July 2025, 30 of them for good, and pubs closed at around two a day in the first quarter of 2026. Lose them and you lose the first rung - the support slots and midweek nights every bigger act started on.
This page exists to make them easy to find. It lists 22 gigs across Bournemouth over the next four weeks, pulled from the venues themselves and updated daily - alongside the 30 grassroots venues and 16 regular open mic nights we track in the city. No algorithm decides what you see: it is simply everything we know is on. The busiest rooms right now are Lighthouse, Bear Cave and Canvas, and the sound leans rock and pop.
So go. Pick a night you would not normally choose, buy a ticket and a drink, and bring a friend. The sign-up below sends Bournemouth listings to your inbox each week, and if you run a room here, claim your venue page to keep it accurate. If you have never been to an open mic, Buffalo runs one every Monday.
Between now and 11 Dec there are 22 gigs in Bournemouth, and 30 grassroots venues and 16 regular open mic nights. One night out this month keeps a room's diary full. Saturday is the night with most on.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Bournemouth
—A UK venue stops hosting live music every 5 days — and turning up is what keeps a room open. Get a free weekly email of gigs in Bournemouth. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
One email, once a week. Noon on Monday, Bournemouth's week of live music from the 10 venues with gigs on, alongside 16 open mic nights, capped at two gigs a night so it stays readable. When fewer than four Bournemouth gigs fall in the week, the email reaches on to the next fortnight, then the month, so you still have something to choose from.
Why sign up. Bournemouth International Centre alone has 7 dates on, Lighthouse 4 - the email is how you hear about them before the night, not after. Right now Bournemouth leans pop and rock. One click unsubscribes, any time.
Beyond this week. Gigs in Bournemouth are announced week to week; festivals are planned months out. The UK music festivals we have date-checked sit on one festival timeline, by month, region and genre, with clash checks for your weekends.
| All Bournemouth gigsEverything upcoming, sorted by date | |
| Bournemouth venues30 grassroots rooms | |
| Bournemouth open mics16 regular nights | |
| The Bournemouth sceneVenues, promoters, local rates and members near you | |
| Every city we coverThe same page for every city, updated daily | |
| UK gig directoryEvery upcoming grassroots gig | |
| UK open mic finderStage time near you | |
| UK venue directoryThe rooms behind the gigs |
Every What's On page, A–Z140 pages
What's On across the UKNearby: Southampton, Weymouth, Portsmouth, Waterlooville
List a gig free, claim your venue, or join as an act - 22 Bournemouth gigs are already on GigXchange this month.
What's On in Bournemouth
Live music in Bournemouth over the next four weeks — 13 Nov – 11 Dec. 22 gigs listed in Bournemouth over the next 28 days across 3 venues. Saturday is the busiest night with 8. In total we track 30 grassroots venues and 16 regular open mics here.
Two pubs a day are closing, and last year 78 grassroots venues stopped putting on live music. Get Bournemouth gigs in your inbox — and go to one.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Bournemouth
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Last updated: 13 November 2026
This Weekend in Bournemouth
6 gigs are on in Bournemouth between Friday and Sunday. Among them: The Sound of Musicals - Poole at St Aldhelm's Church (Saturday), Myles Smith, Chance Peña at Bournemouth International Centre (Saturday) and The Stylistics at Bournemouth Pavilion (Sunday). Every card links the full listing - times, entry and tickets; for the weeks after, scroll to the four-week list.
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How Bournemouth Compares
Counting every upcoming date, not just the next four weeks, there are 52 gigs listed in and around Bournemouth - third of 7 against its nearest places with live music, behind the Southampton area (171). Each row counts the gigs, venues and open mics our directories hold in and around that place, refreshed nightly; tap a town for its live music scene.
- #1 Southampton area 47 venues · 28 open mics 171
- #2 Bath area 36 venues · 13 open mics 56
- #3 Bournemouth area This page 30 venues · 16 open mics 52
- #4 Portsmouth area 30 venues · 17 open mics 33
- #5 Waterlooville area 12 venues · 11 open mics 14
- #6 Swindon area 19 venues · 12 open mics 14
- #7 Weymouth area 18 venues · 12 open mics 6
Gigs in Bournemouth
Four weeks of Bournemouth gigs, 13 Nov to 11 Dec: 22 listings from 3 rooms, with Saturdays the busiest. Where This Weekend stops at Sunday, this keeps going - earliest date first.
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Where It's On This Week
Which Bournemouth rooms are busiest this week? This ranks venues by how many gigs they have in the next seven nights - a quick way to find where something is on most nights.
- #1 Bournemouth Pavilion 3
- #2 Bear Cave 2
- #3 Bournemouth International Centre 2
- #4 Lighthouse 2
- #5 St Aldhelm's Church 1
Venues in Bournemouth
All 30 grassroots rooms we track around Bournemouth, busy or quiet this month, with how many each holds, the kit it has and when it opens. A room's own page shows its upcoming nights.
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Open mics in Bournemouth
16 regular open mics run around Bournemouth on a fixed night each week or month - no tickets, just turn up. Cards show the sign-up time, the slot length and any fee.
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Support grassroots music in Bournemouth
Grassroots venues are where every act you have ever paid to see started out. Bournemouth still has 30 of them.
Bournemouth's scene is built around the seafront. The Old Fire Station, O2 Academy Bournemouth, Mr Kyps and Bournemouth Pavilion anchor the venue circuit, while Sandbanks and Westbourne hotels drive a year-round wedding and function market.
Grassroots rooms are disappearing: 78 stopped hosting live music in the year to July 2025, 30 of them for good, and pubs closed at around two a day in the first quarter of 2026. Lose them and you lose the first rung - the support slots and midweek nights every bigger act started on.
This page exists to make them easy to find. It lists 22 gigs across Bournemouth over the next four weeks, pulled from the venues themselves and updated daily - alongside the 30 grassroots venues and 16 regular open mic nights we track in the city. No algorithm decides what you see: it is simply everything we know is on. The busiest rooms right now are Lighthouse, Bear Cave and Canvas, and the sound leans rock and pop.
So go. Pick a night you would not normally choose, buy a ticket and a drink, and bring a friend. The sign-up below sends Bournemouth listings to your inbox each week, and if you run a room here, claim your venue page to keep it accurate. If you have never been to an open mic, Buffalo runs one every Monday.
Go to one this month
Between now and 11 Dec there are 22 gigs in Bournemouth, and 30 grassroots venues and 16 regular open mic nights. One night out this month keeps a room's diary full. Saturday is the night with most on.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Bournemouth
—A UK venue stops hosting live music every 5 days — and turning up is what keeps a room open. Get a free weekly email of gigs in Bournemouth. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
One email, once a week. Noon on Monday, Bournemouth's week of live music from the 10 venues with gigs on, alongside 16 open mic nights, capped at two gigs a night so it stays readable. When fewer than four Bournemouth gigs fall in the week, the email reaches on to the next fortnight, then the month, so you still have something to choose from.
Why sign up. Bournemouth International Centre alone has 7 dates on, Lighthouse 4 - the email is how you hear about them before the night, not after. Right now Bournemouth leans pop and rock. One click unsubscribes, any time.
Beyond this week. Gigs in Bournemouth are announced week to week; festivals are planned months out. The UK music festivals we have date-checked sit on one festival timeline, by month, region and genre, with clash checks for your weekends.
What's on in Bournemouth — FAQs
Common questions about live music in Bournemouth, answered with this week's live data.
Every What's On page, A–Z140 pages
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