South East · 55 gigs · next 4 weeks
13 Nov – 11 Dec
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Updated 13 November 2026
4 weeks
| Venues with something on | 10 |
| Venues tracked | 47 |
| Open mics | 28 |
| Busiest night | Saturday · 19 gigs |
55 gigs listed in Southampton over the next 28 days across 10 venues. Saturday is the busiest night with 19. In total we track 47 grassroots venues and 28 regular open mics here.
This weekend in Southampton, Friday to Sunday: 10 gigs. Highlights include The Vintage Explosion at EngineRooms (Friday), TuffAF Presents: Compounds at Suburbia Southampton (Saturday) and My Black Poison at The Hobbit (Sunday). Each card is one night at one venue, with the start time and the price where the venue publishes it; the four-week list below covers everything after Sunday.
Starts19:00 The Vintage ExplosionEngineRooms · Bargate · Southampton 
The AllergiesThe Brook · Swaythling · Southampton 19:30Tonight 
The BrookThe Brook · Swaythling · Southampton 19:30Tonight 
TuffAF Presents: CompoundsSuburbia Southampton · Bevois · Southampton 18:00Sat 14 Nov 
The Book of GenesisSalisbury Arts Centre · Salisbury St Edmund's · Southampton£23 19:30Sat 14 Nov 
What's Love Got to do With it - Tina Turner TributeMayflower Theatre · Banister & Polygon · Southampton 19:30Sat 14 Nov 
Bon GioviThe Brook · Swaythling · Southampton 20:00Sat 14 Nov 
My Black PoisonThe Hobbit · Bevois · Southampton 19:00Sun 15 Nov 
Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues OrchestraMayflower Theatre · Banister & Polygon · Southampton 19:30Sun 15 Nov 
The WannadiesThe Brook · Swaythling · Southampton 20:00Sun 15 Nov Counting every upcoming date, not just the next four weeks, there are 171 gigs listed in and around Southampton - first of 7 against its nearest places with live music. 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 This page 47 venues · 28 open mics | 171 |
| 02 | Bournemouth area 30 venues · 16 open mics | 52 |
| 03 | Reading area 32 venues · 17 open mics | 44 |
| 04 | Portsmouth area 30 venues · 17 open mics | 33 |
| 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 |
From 13 Nov to 11 Dec, Southampton has 55 gigs listed at 10 venues - Saturday is the busiest night. This is the full four-week run, not just the weekend: every gig we hold, in date order.
Starts19:00 The Vintage ExplosionEngineRooms · Bargate · Southampton The AllergiesThe Brook · Swaythling · Southampton 19:30Tonight The BrookThe Brook · Swaythling · Southampton 19:30Tonight TuffAF Presents: CompoundsSuburbia Southampton · Bevois · Southampton 18:00Sat 14 Nov The Book of GenesisSalisbury Arts Centre · Salisbury St Edmund's · Southampton£23 19:30Sat 14 Nov What's Love Got to do With it - Tina Turner TributeMayflower Theatre · Banister & Polygon · Southampton 19:30Sat 14 Nov Bon GioviThe Brook · Swaythling · Southampton 20:00Sat 14 Nov My Black PoisonThe Hobbit · Bevois · Southampton 19:00Sun 15 Nov Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues OrchestraMayflower Theatre · Banister & Polygon · Southampton 19:30Sun 15 Nov The WannadiesThe Brook · Swaythling · Southampton 20:00Sun 15 Nov | Search every Southampton gigEverything upcoming, not just the next four weeks |
Which Southampton 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 | The Brook | 6 |
| 02 | Mayflower Theatre | 2 |
| 03 | EngineRooms | 1 |
| 04 | Salisbury Arts Centre | 1 |
| 05 | Southampton Heartbreakers | 1 |
| 06 | Suburbia Southampton | 1 |
| 07 | The Hobbit | 1 |
| 08 | The Platform Tavern Southampton | 1 |
Every grassroots venue we track in Southampton - all 47, whether or not it has a gig listed right now - with its capacity, kit and opening times. Use it to find a room near you, then check its page for what is on.
Photo: Google 70 cap 6 BarrelsTotton · SouthamptonHouse PA 
Bitterne Royal British Legion ClubBitterne · Southampton Cap tbc 
Buzz Bingo Lordshill SouthamptonLordshill, Southampton · Southampton 200Cap 
EngineRooms SouthamptonWest Quay Road Industrial Estate · Southampton 800Cap 
HeartbreakersCity Centre · SouthamptonHouse PA 100Cap 
Oasis BarSouthamptonHouse PA 75Cap 
PapillonSouthampton 450Cap 
Planet SoundsThe Arches, under Central Bridge · SouthamptonHouse PA Cap tbc 
ShenanigansSouthampton Cap tbc 
Southampton JoinersSt Mary's · SouthamptonHouse PA 200Cap | All 47 Southampton venuesCapacity, backline and opening times |
Unlike the gigs above, these come round every week or month: 28 open mic nights in and around Southampton. Put your name down at sign-up, or just go and listen - most charge nothing.
Kick-off19:00 The Scholars ArmsSouthamptonNo feeHouse PA SuburbiaCity Centre · SouthamptonNo feeHouse PA 19:30Sun The RockstoneBevois Valley · SouthamptonNo fee 19:00Mon The CellarCity Centre · SouthamptonNo feeFull kit 20:00Mon The CricketersCarlton Pl · SouthamptonNo feeHouse PA 20:00Mon The DolphinSt Denys · SouthamptonNo feeHouse PA 19:30Wed The SocialBanister Park · SouthamptonNo feeHouse PA 19:30Wed Oasis BarSouthamptonNo feeHouse PA 20:00Wed Planet SoundsSouthamptonNo feeHouse PA 20:00Wed The BrookPortswood Rd, Portswood · SouthamptonNo feeHouse PA 20:00Wed | All 28 Southampton open micsSign-up times, slots and kit for every night |
Grassroots venues are where every act you have ever paid to see started out. Southampton still has 47 of them.
South-coast scene with O2 Guildhall, two universities and a New Forest wedding corridor. Venue or private-event hire? See Find a Band in Southampton for rate ranges, the Hampshire and New Forest wedding corridor (Rhinefield House, The Master Builder's, Chewton Glen) and the cruise-port corporate calendar. Southampton's working calendar runs about 9 live nights weekly thanks to the dual-university 50,000-strong student population. Planning a private party instead? See booking live entertainment in Southampton for bands, singers and DJs for one-off occasions. Booking for the company rather than yourself? See corporate entertainment in Southampton for Christmas parties, awards nights and conferences.
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.
This page exists to make them easy to find. It lists 55 gigs across Southampton over the next four weeks, pulled from the venues themselves and updated daily - alongside the 47 grassroots venues and 28 regular open mic nights we track in the city. No algorithm decides what you see: it is simply everything we know is on. The Brook, EngineRooms and Suburbia Southampton have the most on, and the sound leans rock and pop.
The best support is a full room. Turn up to something new, stay for the support act, and buy from the bar. For a weekly round-up of Southampton gigs, use the sign-up below; if you run a venue here, claim your listing so people can find it. Start small: The Scholars Arms hosts an open mic each Sunday.
Southampton has 55 gigs in the next four weeks and 28 open mic nights running. Choose one, go, and tell someone who would like it - word of mouth still fills small rooms. Saturdays are the busiest for gigs here.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Southampton
—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 Southampton. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
What you get. A Monday-noon email for Southampton only: the week's gigs, drawn from the 55 listed on this page for the next four weeks, two a night at most (Saturday is the busiest, with 19 dates). If Southampton has a thin week, it looks further ahead instead of arriving empty.
Why sign up. The Brook alone has 19 dates on, EngineRooms 8 - the email is how you hear about them before the night, not after. Right now Southampton leans rock and pop. One click unsubscribes, any time.
Beyond this week. Gigs in Southampton 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 Southampton gigsEverything upcoming, sorted by date | |
| Southampton venues47 grassroots rooms | |
| Southampton open mics28 regular nights | |
| The Southampton 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: Portsmouth, Waterlooville, Bournemouth, Newbury
List a gig free, claim your venue, or join as an act - 55 Southampton gigs are already on GigXchange this month.
What's On in Southampton
Live music in Southampton over the next four weeks — 13 Nov – 11 Dec. 55 gigs listed in Southampton over the next 28 days across 10 venues. Saturday is the busiest night with 19. In total we track 47 grassroots venues and 28 regular open mics here.
Two pubs a day are closing, and last year 78 grassroots venues stopped putting on live music. Get Southampton gigs in your inbox — and go to one.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Southampton
—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 Southampton. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
Last updated: 13 November 2026
This Weekend in Southampton
This weekend in Southampton, Friday to Sunday: 10 gigs. Highlights include The Vintage Explosion at EngineRooms (Friday), TuffAF Presents: Compounds at Suburbia Southampton (Saturday) and My Black Poison at The Hobbit (Sunday). Each card is one night at one venue, with the start time and the price where the venue publishes it; the four-week list below covers everything after Sunday.
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How Southampton Compares
Counting every upcoming date, not just the next four weeks, there are 171 gigs listed in and around Southampton - first of 7 against its nearest places with live music. 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 This page 47 venues · 28 open mics 171
- #2 Bournemouth area 30 venues · 16 open mics 52
- #3 Reading area 32 venues · 17 open mics 44
- #4 Portsmouth area 30 venues · 17 open mics 33
- #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 Southampton
From 13 Nov to 11 Dec, Southampton has 55 gigs listed at 10 venues - Saturday is the busiest night. This is the full four-week run, not just the weekend: every gig we hold, in date order.
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Where It's On This Week
Which Southampton 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 The Brook 6
- #2 Mayflower Theatre 2
- #3 EngineRooms 1
- #4 Salisbury Arts Centre 1
- #5 Southampton Heartbreakers 1
- #6 Suburbia Southampton 1
- #7 The Hobbit 1
- #8 The Platform Tavern Southampton 1
Venues in Southampton
Every grassroots venue we track in Southampton - all 47, whether or not it has a gig listed right now - with its capacity, kit and opening times. Use it to find a room near you, then check its page for what is on.
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Open mics in Southampton
Unlike the gigs above, these come round every week or month: 28 open mic nights in and around Southampton. Put your name down at sign-up, or just go and listen - most charge nothing.
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Support grassroots music in Southampton
Grassroots venues are where every act you have ever paid to see started out. Southampton still has 47 of them.
South-coast scene with O2 Guildhall, two universities and a New Forest wedding corridor. Venue or private-event hire? See Find a Band in Southampton for rate ranges, the Hampshire and New Forest wedding corridor (Rhinefield House, The Master Builder's, Chewton Glen) and the cruise-port corporate calendar. Southampton's working calendar runs about 9 live nights weekly thanks to the dual-university 50,000-strong student population. Planning a private party instead? See booking live entertainment in Southampton for bands, singers and DJs for one-off occasions. Booking for the company rather than yourself? See corporate entertainment in Southampton for Christmas parties, awards nights and conferences.
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.
This page exists to make them easy to find. It lists 55 gigs across Southampton over the next four weeks, pulled from the venues themselves and updated daily - alongside the 47 grassroots venues and 28 regular open mic nights we track in the city. No algorithm decides what you see: it is simply everything we know is on. The Brook, EngineRooms and Suburbia Southampton have the most on, and the sound leans rock and pop.
The best support is a full room. Turn up to something new, stay for the support act, and buy from the bar. For a weekly round-up of Southampton gigs, use the sign-up below; if you run a venue here, claim your listing so people can find it. Start small: The Scholars Arms hosts an open mic each Sunday.
Go to one this month
Southampton has 55 gigs in the next four weeks and 28 open mic nights running. Choose one, go, and tell someone who would like it - word of mouth still fills small rooms. Saturdays are the busiest for gigs here.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Southampton
—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 Southampton. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
What you get. A Monday-noon email for Southampton only: the week's gigs, drawn from the 55 listed on this page for the next four weeks, two a night at most (Saturday is the busiest, with 19 dates). If Southampton has a thin week, it looks further ahead instead of arriving empty.
Why sign up. The Brook alone has 19 dates on, EngineRooms 8 - the email is how you hear about them before the night, not after. Right now Southampton leans rock and pop. One click unsubscribes, any time.
Beyond this week. Gigs in Southampton 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 Southampton — FAQs
Common questions about live music in Southampton, answered with this week's live data.
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Play or put on gigs in Southampton?
List a gig free, claim your venue, or join as an act - 55 Southampton gigs are already on GigXchange this month.