A not-so-quiet riot... An unusually and deceptively quiet start to last night’s open mic gave way to a packed house by 8.30pm, with a considerable crowd of Big Issue readers storming the door after reading this week’s feature on the club. Add to this a proper melting pot of girl and geezer performers from London, Essex, Stoke-on-Trent (Ant Mayer and Mission Defunkt), and even Amsterdam (Reaganesk) and, boy, were you a warm, fuzzy, receptive and generous audience, almost foaming at the mouth at times.

Special mention also goes to A Junior, the first (but hopefully not the last) comedian to grace the stage, Anthony DiMario, 12 days fresh of the plane from Texas and playing live for the first time ever, and Franc, who, thanks to the host’s failing memory, was told he’d be on next 6 or 7 times before he finally made it up there.


After a visit from Relentless Records last week, Ian Dejon from the Concentrated People label (Todd Mckenzie, The Smoke Fairies), came down to check out the night after hearing out 'live at the electroacoustic club volume one' compilation. We hope to collaborate on some nights soon.

Next months open mic is on WEDNESDAY 2nd November and there are already a few names on the list so let us know asap if you want to play.