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Live Gigs in Reading
37 upcoming grass-roots gigs at indie venues, basement bars and community stages in Reading. Browse, filter, submit your own.
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Grass-Roots Gigs in Reading
Reading has a busy grass-roots circuit — small-venue shows, basement bars, residencies and one-off promoter nights. The directory below pulls every upcoming bill published on GigXchange for Reading: dates, doors, ticket links and venue details, sorted by date.
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NOV
21
Kevin & Perry Having it large KEVIN & PERRY DJ SET
The Coppid Beech Hotel, Reading
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NOV
27
High on Adams - Bryan Adams Tribute | Bier Keller
Bier Keller, Reading
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NOV
28
Badness Madness Tribute Night | Bier Keller
Bier Keller, Reading
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DEC
3
Nick Heyward
St Nicolas Church, Reading
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DEC
4
Luther Vandross Solo tribute & Motown Hits | Bier Keller
Bier Keller, Reading
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DEC
5
Oasiz - Oasis Tribute | Bier Keller
Bier Keller, Reading
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DEC
11
Pure Queen - Tribute to Queen | Bier Keller
Bier Keller, Reading
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DEC
12
The Mia Mammas - Abba Tribute | Bier Keller
Bier Keller, Reading
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DEC
18
19Eighties - 80s Tribute | Bier Keller
Bier Keller, Reading
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DEC
31
Sound Intentions NYE Party | Bier Keller
Bier Keller, Reading
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JAN
15
Legends of Motown live at The Kenton Theatre, Henley-on-Thames
The Kenton Theatre, Reading
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APR
16
The Specials Ltd.
Just The Tonic At Sub89, Reading
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MAY
1
The Shadow Shuffle 4
The Face Bar, Reading
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Reading Gig Directory FAQs
Common questions about grass-roots gigs in Reading, answered with live data.
37 upcoming gigs listed for Reading. 2 are this week. Sorted by date — earliest first.
None of the listed Reading gigs have free entry. Most are pay-on-the-door or pre-sold tickets.
A UK gig at an independent venue — typically capped under 600 capacity — by an artist who isn't on a major-label arena tour. In: pubs, basement bars, indie clubs, community halls, arts centres, and small folk / jazz / punk festivals. Out: arenas, stadiums, the O2 chain, Royal Albert Hall, Symphony Hall, the Barbican, premium dining-cabaret rooms (Jazz Cafe, KOKO, Boisdale), and mega-festival sites (Reading, Leeds, Glastonbury, BST Hyde Park). Major-artist 'World Tour' / 'Arena Tour' / 'Greatest Hits' shows are also excluded — this directory is for the early-career bands, local promoter nights and Tuesday-evening residencies the bigger aggregators tend to miss.
Promoters, venues and artists can submit gigs free via the submission form. Submissions are reviewed and verified within 48 hours before going live.
For recurring weekly slots, see the Reading open mic directory. For the wider live-music scene, the Reading live music hub. For artist booking advice, how to get gigs in Reading. To hire performers, bands for hire in Reading. Or browse the main UK gig directory.
Listings are compiled from public ticketing-platform APIs and direct submissions by promoters, venues and artists. Each listing carries a verification badge — verified means we've confirmed it independently; unverified means we sourced it from a publicly published event. For UK grassroots-venue context see the Music Venue Trust (industry body), PRS for Music (UK licensing) and Help Musicians UK (independent musicians' charity).
Beyond city pages, browse the UK open mic directory for recurring weekly nights, the UK city hub index for every covered city, the genre directory, the booking guides, or the GX Index for live UK gig rates and percentiles.
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