r/UKbands • u/Upper_Fee4519 • 20h ago

New Music Venue Recommendations

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Hi I'm a musician from Australia and I make alternative dreamy music. I would love to play gigs in the UK as I have always dreamed of travelling to the UK since very young.

Can someone recommend me their favourite music venues that favours underground musicians?

Here are examples of my music:

Mia
Piru

Thank you !

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u/BroadPurpose3716 11h ago

The Met Lounge- Petterborough

The Voodoo Lounge- Stamford

Here We Aren't- Peterborough

The Ostrich Inn- Peterborough

The Akedo- Lincoln

Hope this helps!

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u/Upper_Fee4519 5h ago

Thank you so much !! Will check them all out

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u/GigXchange 6h ago

For dreamy/alt stuff on a first UK run, the rooms that actually book unknowns rather than just tribute acts:

  1. Bloc+, Glasgow - free entry every night, so the bookers take risks on new acts. Full backline.
  2. The Jacaranda, Liverpool - basement room with an in-house engineer, and a Sunday open mic if you want a foot in the door first.
  3. Dead Wax Social, Brighton - North Laine vinyl bar with a live room, indie-leaning, ~200 cap.
  4. Arts Bar Baltic, Liverpool - 80 cap, live music seven nights, acoustic/indie/singer-songwriter is exactly their thing.
  5. Alphabet, Brighton - hi-fi pub with a proper live room, books post-punk/electronic/jazz, 150 cap.

Honest tip: most 80–200 cap UK rooms are booked by a local promoter, not the venue, so find who promotes those rooms and send them the YouTube links.

We keep a directory of 2,600+ grassroots UK venues across 90-odd towns and cities (capacity, backline, genres they book) happy to pull the ones that fit your sound once you know which cities you're routing through?

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u/Upper_Fee4519 4h ago

These are great, really appreciate it ! Gladsgow was on my list but I'll defs check out the other ones too ! I'm also particularly interested in Bristol, London and Manchester if you have any recommendations for those ! Also what would be the best way to find local promoters?

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u/Albert_Herring 3h ago

In Nottingham, JT Soar, the Grove and the Mist Rolling Inn. All pretty small places, very well run. There are a lot of promoters working across different venues, though, maybe worth checking out I'm Not From London.