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Live music and poetry!

no DJs, no dodgy cover bands, just great music and poetry from ordinary (and not so ordinary) people, and the opportunity to do something yourself. Events marked * are open to performers by prior arrangement with the organisers, and it's usually a good idea to start going to an event to get to know people beforehand.
  • Bracknell
Thursdays Upclose & Intimate, South Hill Park, Ringmead *
  • Leeds
Tuesdays The Limelight (open mic) at Doctor Wu's, Call Lane (opposite Music Ground)
Wednesdays UnpluggedLeeds (open mic) at The Grove, Back Lane, Holbeck (just south of the city centre)
Thursdays Unplugged at The Cockpit Bar, Swinegate *
Thursdays at The Primrose (open mic), Meanwood Road, Meanwood
Saturdays The Acoustic Revolution (free gig) at Doctor Wu's, Call Lane (opposite Music Ground) *
2nd Tuesday of the month Wicked Words (poetry open mic) at Café Fusion, Host Media Centre, Chapeltown

DIY gigs are featured in Cops and Robbers
  • Leicester
Last Sunday of the month Silver Tongues (open mic) at The Ale Wagon, Charles Street
Brightside (open mic) is back in Leicester!
  • Nottingham
1st Wednesday of the month Brightside (open mic) at The Old Vic, Fletchergate
monthly on a Wednesday (usually 3rd Wed) Brightside Speakeasy (poetry open mic) at Alley Café Bar, 1a Cannon Court, Long Row West (opposite the old Odeon)
last Saturday of the month Poetryalive (poetry open mic) at Fade and the Hard to Find Café, Mansfield Road
  • Reading
Thursdays Bohemian Night (open mic), 3B's Café, Town Hall
2nd Wednesday of the month Poets Café at The Rising Sun Arts Centre (poetry open mic), Silver Street (not The Rising Sun by the train station...)

Information (sometimes outdated) on poetry events around the UK and further afield is on Poetrykit






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