The Dial Up @ Johnny's Bar!
Where: Johnny's Bar, 96 QUEEN'S RD, WATFORD, WD17 2NX
When: First Sunday of each month, 2-4pm
Free entry (suggested donation £5)
Join The Dial Up for a fantastic afternoon of performance and open mic! If you’re looking for a friendly and welcoming space to share your music, poetry, prose, drama, comedy, magic or dance, or just want a couple of hours of entertainment, then The Dial Up is the place for you! Each month has a theme but feel free to interpret or ignore it as you choose! All Welcome. Free entry (suggested donation of £5).
Sunday 2nd March: Great American Songbook
Sunday 6th April: Great British Songbook
Sunday 4th May: Birds and Beasts
Sunday 1st June: Land, Sea and Air
Sunday 6th July: Disney Special
Sunday 3rd August: NO EVENT (summer break)
Sunday 7th September: All the Colours of the Rainbow
Sunday 5th October: Forgotten Heroes
Sunday 2nd November: tbc
Sunday 7th December: Christmas Party!
The Dial Up Band
@ Bushey Performing Arts Festival
When: Sunday 8th June, time tbc
Where: Mary Forsdyke Gardens, 1EA High Street Bushey
Free Entry
The Dial Up Band is an uplifting, light hearted and joyful musical group made up of regular members of The Dial Up Open Mic. With a rotating line up and passion for jazz, musicals and The Great American Songbook, you're guaranteed an entertaining time in our company, and may even get the chance to take the stage yourself!
The Dial Up Band
@ Bossanyi Studio
When: Saturday 5th July, 8-10pm
Where: Bossanyi Studio, Field End Road, Eastcote, HA5 2QL
Tickets £10 donation during the interval
The Dial Up Band is an uplifting, light hearted and joyful musical group made up of regular members of The Dial Up Open Mic. With a rotating line up and passion for jazz, musicals and The Great American Songbook, you're guaranteed an entertaining time in our company, and may even get the chance to take the stage yourself!
The Dial Up Band
@ Save Sunday Music at Roxbourne Park
When: Sunday 3rd August, 12 noon till 1.30pm
Where: Roxbourne Park
Access points: Canon Lane, Castleton Road, Field End Road and High Worple.
By train: Rayners Lane (Underground).
By bus: H9, H10, H12 and the 398.
FREE EVENT, donations encouraged during interval
The Dial Up Band is an uplifting, light hearted and joyful musical group made up of regular members of The Dial Up Open Mic. With a rotating line up and passion for jazz, musicals and The Great American Songbook, you're guaranteed an entertaining time in our company, and may even get the chance to take the stage yourself!
The Pump House Theatre Black History Month Dial Up Open Mic!
Where:
Main Theatre @ Pump House Theatre and Arts Centre,
Local Board Road, Lower Watford High Street, WD17 2JP
(2 minutes from Watford High Street train station)
When:
October 2025, date and time tbc
The Watford Pump House is proud to be hosting a Dial Up Open Mic in celebration of Black History Month! We want to throw the doors of the Pump House wide open so this is a FREE EVENT with a suggested donation of £5 at the door for those who are able to pay.
As ever, we will be celebrating community and creativity in all their forms, so whether you are Black, White, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Mixed or however you identify, we welcome you to join us for this joyful occasion! Share you music, your poetry, your passion, your stories. The stage is yours!
The Pump House Theatre LGBT History Month Dial Up Open Mic!
Where:
The Colne River Room
Pump House Theatre and Arts Centre,
Local Board Road, Lower Watford High Street, WD17 2JP
(2 minutes from Watford High Street train station)
When:
February 2026, date and time tbc
Watford’s Pump House Theatre is proud to host The Dial Up Open Mic LGBT History Month Special! We’re throwing the doors of the Colne River Room wide open for this FREE EVENT in celebration of our town’s wonderful diversity! There is a suggested donation of £5 at the door for those who feel able to pay.
Whether you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, curious, undecided, an ally or something else entirely we welcome you to come along and join us for this much loved highlight of the Watford LGBT calendar. Share you music, your poetry, your passion, your stories. The stage is yours!
Tiger Jazz is a joy-filled journey through some of the best loved tunes of The Great American Songbook and beyond. Come and enjoy a fun-filled, toe-tapping, heart-warming selection of melodies from Hollywood, Broadway and Tin Pan Alley delivered with a roar!
The Dial Up Open Mic is a celebration of community and creativity where everyone who wants to perform is guaranteed a performance spot. Singing, dancing, music, poetry, comedy, drama... Everyone is welcome. And we love audience members, too, so don't be shy!
Here's the full video of our LGBT Dial Up Special filmed bt Scott Awcock, February 2023:
Here's the full video of our LGBT Dial Up Special filmed by Scott Awcock, February 2022:
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At The Dial Up we’re extremely grateful to our friendly and supportive audience, in particular our regular group of performers and contributors who help us make music every month, share their creativity and make The Dial Up Open Mic Nights as utterly entertaining and enjoyable as they are. We call them our Dial Up Family, and this is our chance to say thank you to them! We love you! xxx
