Hertfordshire · 4 gigs · next 4 weeks
What's On in St Albans
4 Nov – 2 Dec
Help keep grassroots venues open in St Albans
—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 St Albans. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
Updated 4 November 2026
At a glance
4 weeks
| Venues with something on | 1 |
| Venues tracked | 8 |
| Open mics | 6 |
| Busiest night | Saturday · 2 gigs |
4 gigs listed in St Albans over the next 28 days across 1 venue. Saturday is the busiest night with 2. In total we track 8 grassroots venues and 6 regular open mics here.
01 — This weekend
0 gigsThis weekend in St Albans
Only Friday to Sunday - and nothing is listed in St Albans for this weekend yet. The four-week list below shows what is coming, and the open mics further down run every week.
No weekend gigs yet - most venues add theirs by Thursday.
02 — Gigs
4 gigsGigs in St Albans
Four weeks of St Albans gigs, 4 Nov to 2 Dec: 4 listings from 1 room, with Saturdays the busiest. Where This Weekend stops at Sunday, this keeps going - earliest date first.
| Every gig in and around WatfordEverything upcoming, not just the next four weeks |
03 — Venues
8 roomsVenues in St Albans
All 8 grassroots rooms we track around St Albans, 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 Mad SquirrelSt AlbansHouse PA 
The CrownSt Albans Cap tbc 
The Farmer's BoySt Albans Cap tbc 
The HornSt AlbansHouse PA 200Cap 
The Hub on VerulamSt Albans 100Cap 
The Pioneer ClubHeathlands Drive · St AlbansHouse PA 400Cap 
The Saint & SinnerSt Albans Cap tbc 
The Speckled HenSt Albans Cap tbc | All Watford area venuesCapacity, backline and opening times |
04 — Open mics
6 nightsOpen mics in St Albans
Unlike the gigs above, these come round every week or month: 6 open mic nights in and around St Albans. Put your name down at sign-up, or just go and listen - most charge nothing.
VariesWed Kick-off19:30 The Saint & SinnerSt AlbansNo feeDates vary 
The CrownCity Centre · St AlbansNo feeHouse PA 20:00Tonight 
The Speckled HenHatfield Road · St AlbansNo fee 20:00Tonight 
The Farmer's BoySt AlbansNo feeFortnightly 20:30Wed 
The HornVictoria Street, AL1 3TE · St AlbansNo feeHouse PA 15:00Sun 
Mad SquirrelCity Centre · St AlbansNo feeHouse PAFortnightly 19:00Tue | All Watford area open micsSign-up times, slots and kit for every night |
05 — Support grassroots
Support grassroots music in St Albans
Grassroots venues are where every act you have ever paid to see started out. St Albans still has 8 of them.
Live music in St Albans is one of the strongest small-city circuits in the South East — historic pubs, the Alban Arena and a cathedral-city audience.
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 4 gigs across St Albans over the next four weeks, pulled from the venues themselves and updated daily - alongside the 8 grassroots venues and 6 regular open mic nights we track in the city. No algorithm decides what you see: it is simply everything we know is on.
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 St Albans gigs, use the sign-up below; if you run a venue here, claim your listing so people can find it. If you have never been to an open mic, The Horn runs one every Sunday.
Go to one this month
Between now and 2 Dec there are 4 gigs in St Albans, and 8 grassroots venues and 6 regular open mic nights. One night out this month keeps a room's diary full. Saturdays are the busiest for gigs here.
Help keep grassroots venues open in St Albans
—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 St Albans. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
What you get. A Monday-noon email for St Albans only: the week's gigs, drawn from the 4 listed on this page for the next four weeks, two a night at most. When fewer than four St Albans 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. The Horn alone has 4 dates on - the email is how you hear about them before the night, not after. Expect plenty of pop in St Albans, with alternative rock close behind. One click unsubscribes, any time.
Beyond this week. Gigs in St Albans 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 Watford area gigsEverything upcoming, sorted by date | |
| Watford area venuesThe grassroots rooms in and around it | |
| Watford area open micsThe regular nights in and around it | |
| The St Albans 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 |
06 — Questions9 answersWhat's on in St Albans
Every What's On page, A–Z140 pages
What's On across the UKNearby: Harpenden, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead, Watford
Play or put on gigs in St Albans?
List a gig free, claim your venue, or join as an act - 4 St Albans gigs are already on GigXchange this month.
What's On in St Albans
Live music in St Albans over the next four weeks — 4 Nov – 2 Dec. 4 gigs listed in St Albans over the next 28 days across 1 venue. Saturday is the busiest night with 2. In total we track 8 grassroots venues and 6 regular open mics here.
Two pubs a day are closing, and last year 78 grassroots venues stopped putting on live music. Get St Albans gigs in your inbox — and go to one.
Help keep grassroots venues open in St Albans
—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 St Albans. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
Last updated: 4 November 2026
This Weekend in St Albans
Only Friday to Sunday - and nothing is listed in St Albans for this weekend yet. The four-week list below shows what is coming, and the open mics further down run every week.
Gigs in St Albans
Four weeks of St Albans gigs, 4 Nov to 2 Dec: 4 listings from 1 room, with Saturdays the busiest. Where This Weekend stops at Sunday, this keeps going - earliest date first.
- Entry—
- Tickets—
- AgeAll ages
- GenreIndie Rock, Alternative Rock, Pop
- Entry—
- Tickets—
- AgeAll ages
- GenreRock, Pop
- Entry—
- Tickets—
- AgeAll ages
- GenreAlternative Rock, Punk Rock
- Entry—
- Tickets—
- AgeAll ages
- GenreRock, Pop
Venues in St Albans
All 8 grassroots rooms we track around St Albans, 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.
- PA system
- Drum kit
- Guitar amp
- Bass amp
- Keys / keyboard
- 2 vocal mics
- In-house engineer
- MonClosed
- Tue17:00–21:00
- Wed12:00–22:00
- Thu12:00–22:00
- Fri12:00–23:00
- Sat12:00–23:00
- Sun12:00–21:00
- PA system
- Drum kit
- Guitar amp
- Bass amp
- Keys / keyboard
- 2 vocal mics
- In-house engineer
- Mon—
- Tue—
- Wed—
- Thu—
- Fri—
- Sat—
- Sun—
- PA system (TBC)
- Drum kit (TBC)
- Guitar amp (TBC)
- Bass amp (TBC)
- Keys / keyboard (TBC)
- Vocal mics (TBC)
- In-house engineer (TBC)
- Mon—
- Tue—
- Wed—
- Thu—
- Fri—
- Sat—
- Sun—
- PA system
- Drum kit
- Guitar amp
- Bass amp
- Keys / keyboard (TBC)
- Vocal mics (TBC)
- In-house engineer (TBC)
- Mon12:00–00:00
- Tue12:00–00:00
- Wed12:00–00:00
- Thu12:00–00:00
- Fri12:00–02:00
- Sat12:00–02:00
- Sun12:00–21:00
- PA system (TBC)
- Drum kit (TBC)
- Guitar amp (TBC)
- Bass amp (TBC)
- Keys / keyboard (TBC)
- Vocal mics (TBC)
- In-house engineer (TBC)
- Mon10:00–18:00
- Tue10:00–18:00
- Wed10:00–22:00
- Thu10:00–22:00
- Fri10:00–00:00
- Sat10:00–00:00
- Sun10:00–18:00
- PA system
- Drum kit
- Guitar amp
- Bass amp
- Keys / keyboard (TBC)
- Vocal mics (TBC)
- In-house engineer (TBC)
- MonClosed
- TueClosed
- Wed19:00–22:00
- Thu09:30–20:30
- Fri09:30–21:30
- Sat10:00–14:00
- Sun10:00–16:00
- PA system (TBC)
- Drum kit (TBC)
- Guitar amp (TBC)
- Bass amp (TBC)
- Keys / keyboard (TBC)
- Vocal mics (TBC)
- In-house engineer (TBC)
- Mon—
- Tue—
- Wed—
- Thu—
- Fri—
- Sat—
- Sun—
- PA system (TBC)
- Drum kit (TBC)
- Guitar amp (TBC)
- Bass amp (TBC)
- Keys / keyboard (TBC)
- Vocal mics (TBC)
- In-house engineer (TBC)
- Mon11:30–23:00
- Tue11:30–23:00
- Wed11:30–23:00
- Thu11:30–23:00
- Fri11:30–23:00
- Sat11:30–23:00
- Sun11:30–22:30
Open mics in St Albans
Unlike the gigs above, these come round every week or month: 6 open mic nights in and around St Albans. Put your name down at sign-up, or just go and listen - most charge nothing.
- Sign-up—
- Slots—
- EntryNo fee listed
- PAProvided
- Backline—
- Open toMusicians
- Sign-up19:30
- Slots12 min
- EntryNo fee listed
- PAProvided
- Backline—
- Open toMusicians
- Sign-up19:00
- Slots—
- EntryNo fee listed
- PA—
- Backline—
- Open toPoets
- Sign-up19:30
- Slots12 min
- EntryNo fee listed
- PAProvided
- Backline—
- Open toMusicians
- Sign-up—
- Slots—
- EntryNo fee listed
- PA—
- Backline—
- Open toMusicians
- Sign-up—
- Slots—
- EntryNo fee listed
- PA—
- Backline—
- Open toMusicians
Support grassroots music in St Albans
Grassroots venues are where every act you have ever paid to see started out. St Albans still has 8 of them.
Live music in St Albans is one of the strongest small-city circuits in the South East — historic pubs, the Alban Arena and a cathedral-city audience.
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 4 gigs across St Albans over the next four weeks, pulled from the venues themselves and updated daily - alongside the 8 grassroots venues and 6 regular open mic nights we track in the city. No algorithm decides what you see: it is simply everything we know is on.
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 St Albans gigs, use the sign-up below; if you run a venue here, claim your listing so people can find it. If you have never been to an open mic, The Horn runs one every Sunday.
Go to one this month
Between now and 2 Dec there are 4 gigs in St Albans, and 8 grassroots venues and 6 regular open mic nights. One night out this month keeps a room's diary full. Saturdays are the busiest for gigs here.
Help keep grassroots venues open in St Albans
—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 St Albans. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
What you get. A Monday-noon email for St Albans only: the week's gigs, drawn from the 4 listed on this page for the next four weeks, two a night at most. When fewer than four St Albans 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. The Horn alone has 4 dates on - the email is how you hear about them before the night, not after. Expect plenty of pop in St Albans, with alternative rock close behind. One click unsubscribes, any time.
Beyond this week. Gigs in St Albans 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 St Albans — FAQs
Common questions about live music in St Albans, answered with this week's live data.
Every What's On page, A–Z140 pages
What's On across the UKNearby: Harpenden, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead, Watford
Play or put on gigs in St Albans?
List a gig free, claim your venue, or join as an act - 4 St Albans gigs are already on GigXchange this month.