What's On

What's On is the national view of grassroots live music in the UK. Right now it holds 1,900 gigs across 79 cities, at 826 venues, over the next four weeks — 407 of them in the next seven days. Every city has its own page with that city's gigs, venues and open mic nights, and this page exists to get you there.

What you will find here is the small end of the circuit: pub back rooms, function rooms, basement bars, community stages and independent venues, most under 600 capacity. What you will not find is arena tours or festival bills. That is deliberate. Those shows are already easy to find, and they are not the part of the industry that is disappearing — the Music Venue Trust Annual Report 2025 counted 78 grassroots venues that stopped putting on live music in the year to July 2025, 30 of which closed altogether. Roughly one every five days.

Listings come from the venues, promoters and artists themselves and are refreshed continuously rather than on a publishing schedule, so a gig added this morning is on the relevant city page this afternoon and drops off by itself once it has been and gone. Most listings arrive without a door price, which is why this page does not claim a proportion that are free — where a price is published we show it, and where a ticket is needed the listing links to it. Open mic nights are the dependable free option in most cities, any night of the week.

If you run a room, put on shows, or play them, the listing is free: claim your venue page, add a gig from any city page, or join GigXchange to book and get booked directly. And if you just want to be told what is on near you rather than remember to check, the weekly email does that — one message a week, the city you choose, nothing else.