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Help keep grassroots venues open in Portsmouth
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Updated 12 November 2026
4 weeks
| Venues with something on | 6 |
| Venues tracked | 30 |
| Open mics | 17 |
| Busiest night | Friday · 4 gigs |
14 gigs listed in Portsmouth over the next 28 days across 6 venues. Friday is the busiest night with 4. In total we track 30 grassroots venues and 17 regular open mics here.
3 gigs are on in Portsmouth between Friday and Sunday. Highlights include The Big Indie Fest at The Gaiety Southsea (Friday), Earthtone9 at KOLA (Friday) and Young Knives at Wedgewood Rooms (Saturday). Tap a card for times and tickets. Anything from Monday on is in the four-week list further down.
Counting every upcoming date, not just the next four weeks, there are 33 gigs listed in and around Portsmouth - 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 | Bournemouth area 30 venues · 16 open mics | 52 |
| 03 | Portsmouth area This page 30 venues · 17 open mics | 33 |
| 04 | Woking area 16 venues · 14 open mics | 24 |
| 05 | Waterlooville area 12 venues · 11 open mics | 14 |
| 06 | Farnborough area 6 venues · 4 open mics | 10 |
| 07 | Aldershot area 16 venues · 14 open mics | 4 |
Four weeks of Portsmouth gigs, 13 Nov to 11 Dec: 14 listings from 6 rooms, with Fridays the busiest. Where This Weekend stops at Sunday, this keeps going - earliest date first.
Starts19:00 The Big Indie FestThe Gaiety Southsea · Eastney and Craneswater · Portsmouth 
Earthtone9KOLA · Eastney and Craneswater · Portsmouth 19:00Tonight 
Young KnivesWedgewood Rooms · Central Southsea · Portsmouth 19:30Sat 14 Nov 
Chopsuey, Slip-NOT, A7XperienceStrings Bar & Venue · Portsmouth 19:00Wed 18 Nov 
The Yacht Rock ExperienceFareham Live · Portsmouth 19:30Wed 18 Nov 
Live Punkrock - Bullshit Detector + UncivilisedKola · Eastney and Craneswater · Southsea 19:30Thu 19 Nov 
Just Radiohead, DOPPELGANG3RKOLA · Portsmouth 19:00Sat 21 Nov 
Hothouse FlowersFareham Live · Portsmouth 19:30Tue 24 Nov 
Ricky Warwick & the Fighting Hearts, Divergent Promotions, Ricky WarwickKOLA · Portsmouth 19:00Wed 25 Nov 
Mystery JetsWedgewood Rooms · Central Southsea · Portsmouth 19:30Fri 27 Nov | Search every Portsmouth gigEverything upcoming, not just the next four weeks |
Which Portsmouth 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 | KOLA | 2 |
| 02 | Fareham Live | 1 |
| 03 | Strings Bar & Venue | 1 |
| 04 | The Gaiety Southsea | 1 |
| 05 | Wedgewood Rooms | 1 |
Portsmouth's grassroots venues, all 30 of them, listed whether or not they have something on right now - capacity, backline and hours for each, and a link to its own listings.
Photo: Google 6,000 cap Pitt St SkateparkPortsmouth 
Portsmouth GuildhallPortsmouthHouse PA 2,200Cap 
Portsmouth Rail Social ClubFratton · Portsmouth 120Cap 
Rapscallions Port SolentPort Solent · PortsmouthHouse PA Cap tbc 
Rapscallions SouthseaSouthsea · PortsmouthHouse PA Cap tbc 
ThatchersNorth End · PortsmouthHouse PA Cap tbc 
The Admiral DrakeNorth End · PortsmouthHouse PA Cap tbc 
The LoftSouthsea · PortsmouthHouse PA 120Cap 
The Pelham ArmsNorth End · PortsmouthHouse PA Cap tbc 
Bold ForesterSouthseaHouse PA 80Cap | All 30 Portsmouth venuesCapacity, backline and opening times |
Unlike the gigs above, these come round every week or month: 17 open mic nights in and around Portsmouth. Put your name down at sign-up, or just go and listen - most charge nothing.
Kick-off16:00 The Three TunsPortsmouthNo fee1st Sun of the month The Admiral DrakeNorth End · PortsmouthNo feeHouse PAFortnightly 18:45Sun ThatchersNorth End · PortsmouthNo feeHouse PA 20:00Mon The LoftSouthsea · PortsmouthNo feeHouse PA 20:00Tue Lord John RussellSouthsea · PortsmouthNo fee 20:00Wed Portsmouth GuildhallPortsmouthNo feeHouse PA 20:00Wed Bold ForesterSouthsea · PortsmouthNo feeHouse PA 19:00Thu Rapscallions SouthseaSouthsea · PortsmouthNo feeHouse PA1st Thu of the month 19:30Thu Rapscallions Port SolentPortsmouthNo feeHouse PALast Thu of the month 20:00Thu The Pelham ArmsPortsmouthNo feeHouse PA 20:00Thu | All 17 Portsmouth open micsSign-up times, slots and kit for every night |
Grassroots venues are where every act you have ever paid to see started out. Portsmouth still has 30 of them.
Southsea is where Portsmouth plays: the Wedgewood Rooms on Albert Road, The Gaiety on South Parade Pier, a top-floor room on St James' Street and a basement club on Granada Road.
In the year to July 2025, 78 UK grassroots venues stopped putting on live music and 30 closed outright, while pubs shut at about two a day in early 2026. Each one was somewhere a band played its first paid gig or a songwriter tried a new song on a room of strangers.
Everything here comes from the venues and promoters themselves, refreshed every day: 14 gigs in Portsmouth over the next four weeks, plus the 30 grassroots venues and 17 regular open mic nights we track. Nothing is ranked or sponsored - if we know it is on, it is listed. The busiest rooms right now are KOLA, Wedgewood Rooms and Fareham Live, and the sound leans rock and alternative rock.
The single most useful thing anyone can do is turn up. Buy a ticket, buy a drink at the bar, and go to a night you have not been to before. If you would rather be told than remember, the sign-up below sends Portsmouth listings straight to your inbox. If you run a venue here, claim your page so people can find you. Start small: Staggeringly Good Brewery hosts an open mic each Thursday.
14 gigs listed in Portsmouth over the next four weeks, with 30 grassroots venues and 17 regular open mic nights. Pick one you have not been to before - a ticket and a round at the bar is the most useful thing anyone can do for a room like these. Friday is the night with most on.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Portsmouth
—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 Portsmouth. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
What lands in your inbox. Every Monday at noon, one email of Portsmouth gigs for the week ahead - out of roughly 4 a week here, never more than two on the same night, so a packed Friday does not crowd out the quieter evenings. When fewer than four Portsmouth 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. Fareham Live has the most coming up here, with 3 dates - the email means you see them in time to go. Right now Portsmouth leans rock and alternative rock. One click unsubscribes, any time.
Planning ahead? Gigs in Portsmouth come and go each week; festivals are planned months ahead. One festival timeline holds the UK music festivals we have date-checked, by month, region and genre, and flags clashing weekends.
| All Portsmouth gigsEverything upcoming, sorted by date | |
| Portsmouth venues30 grassroots rooms | |
| Portsmouth open mics17 regular nights | |
| The Portsmouth 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: Waterlooville, Southampton, Worthing, Aldershot
List a gig free, claim your venue, or join as an act - 14 Portsmouth gigs are already on GigXchange this month.
What's On in Portsmouth
Live music in Portsmouth over the next four weeks — 13 Nov – 11 Dec. 14 gigs listed in Portsmouth over the next 28 days across 6 venues. Friday is the busiest night with 4. In total we track 30 grassroots venues and 17 regular open mics here.
Two pubs a day are closing, and last year 78 grassroots venues stopped putting on live music. Get Portsmouth gigs in your inbox — and go to one.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Portsmouth
—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 Portsmouth. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
Last updated: 12 November 2026
This Weekend in Portsmouth
3 gigs are on in Portsmouth between Friday and Sunday. Highlights include The Big Indie Fest at The Gaiety Southsea (Friday), Earthtone9 at KOLA (Friday) and Young Knives at Wedgewood Rooms (Saturday). Tap a card for times and tickets. Anything from Monday on is in the four-week list further down.
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How Portsmouth Compares
Counting every upcoming date, not just the next four weeks, there are 33 gigs listed in and around Portsmouth - 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 Bournemouth area 30 venues · 16 open mics 52
- #3 Portsmouth area This page 30 venues · 17 open mics 33
- #4 Woking area 16 venues · 14 open mics 24
- #5 Waterlooville area 12 venues · 11 open mics 14
- #6 Farnborough area 6 venues · 4 open mics 10
- #7 Aldershot area 16 venues · 14 open mics 4
Gigs in Portsmouth
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Where It's On This Week
Which Portsmouth 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 KOLA 2
- #2 Fareham Live 1
- #3 Strings Bar & Venue 1
- #4 The Gaiety Southsea 1
- #5 Wedgewood Rooms 1
Venues in Portsmouth
Portsmouth's grassroots venues, all 30 of them, listed whether or not they have something on right now - capacity, backline and hours for each, and a link to its own listings.
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Open mics in Portsmouth
Unlike the gigs above, these come round every week or month: 17 open mic nights in and around Portsmouth. Put your name down at sign-up, or just go and listen - most charge nothing.
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Support grassroots music in Portsmouth
Grassroots venues are where every act you have ever paid to see started out. Portsmouth still has 30 of them.
Southsea is where Portsmouth plays: the Wedgewood Rooms on Albert Road, The Gaiety on South Parade Pier, a top-floor room on St James' Street and a basement club on Granada Road.
In the year to July 2025, 78 UK grassroots venues stopped putting on live music and 30 closed outright, while pubs shut at about two a day in early 2026. Each one was somewhere a band played its first paid gig or a songwriter tried a new song on a room of strangers.
Everything here comes from the venues and promoters themselves, refreshed every day: 14 gigs in Portsmouth over the next four weeks, plus the 30 grassroots venues and 17 regular open mic nights we track. Nothing is ranked or sponsored - if we know it is on, it is listed. The busiest rooms right now are KOLA, Wedgewood Rooms and Fareham Live, and the sound leans rock and alternative rock.
The single most useful thing anyone can do is turn up. Buy a ticket, buy a drink at the bar, and go to a night you have not been to before. If you would rather be told than remember, the sign-up below sends Portsmouth listings straight to your inbox. If you run a venue here, claim your page so people can find you. Start small: Staggeringly Good Brewery hosts an open mic each Thursday.
Go to one this month
14 gigs listed in Portsmouth over the next four weeks, with 30 grassroots venues and 17 regular open mic nights. Pick one you have not been to before - a ticket and a round at the bar is the most useful thing anyone can do for a room like these. Friday is the night with most on.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Portsmouth
—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 Portsmouth. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
What lands in your inbox. Every Monday at noon, one email of Portsmouth gigs for the week ahead - out of roughly 4 a week here, never more than two on the same night, so a packed Friday does not crowd out the quieter evenings. When fewer than four Portsmouth 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. Fareham Live has the most coming up here, with 3 dates - the email means you see them in time to go. Right now Portsmouth leans rock and alternative rock. One click unsubscribes, any time.
Planning ahead? Gigs in Portsmouth come and go each week; festivals are planned months ahead. One festival timeline holds the UK music festivals we have date-checked, by month, region and genre, and flags clashing weekends.
What's on in Portsmouth — FAQs
Common questions about live music in Portsmouth, answered with this week's live data.
Every What's On page, A–Z140 pages
What's On across the UKNearby: Waterlooville, Southampton, Worthing, Aldershot
Play or put on gigs in Portsmouth?
List a gig free, claim your venue, or join as an act - 14 Portsmouth gigs are already on GigXchange this month.