July at The Dial Up!

This July is a month of mixed emotions for The Dial Up! Not only are we excited as ever to be sharing our unique brand of community and creativity with old friends and new, but we're also sad as we start counting down to our penultimate and final events!

As a consequence, there are two themes this month. The first is our traditional Disney Songbook theme, so dust off your favourite songs from the House of Mouse! The second is Anything Goes, which we usually reserve for the New Year, but if there are any favourite songs or poems that you'd like to bring to the Dial Up, please feel free to ignore the Disney theme and take this opportunity to share your creativity!

As a consequence of our impending break there has been a flurry of filmmaking! Check out our youtube channel or www.facebook.com/thedialup to have a look. Above is our Watford Dial Up version of Brel's Carousel, thanks to Anthony Wilson on piano and Mel for filming!

We will of course be back for Christmas Specials in December, but please do come and join us in making these final Dial Ups extra special. Much love, Alex xx

Sunday 7th July: Final Watford Dial Up, 5pm at the Palace Theatre

Thursday 11th July: Penultimate Coco Dial Up, 7pm at Coco Cafe, Croxley

There is no London Dial Up this month. The final London Dial Up at the Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, will take place at 8pm on Friday 2nd August.

Sing Along Specials this June!

The Dial Up is well known for its inimitable open mic sessions and regular audience participation, so for the first time this month we're making a whole theme out of it! This June we're all about Singing Along, so expect lots of lyric sheets, word boards and catchy choruses as we gather together to celebrate community and creativity as only The Dial Up can! 

As most of you now know, The Dial Up will be taking a short break from this summer onwards as I go galavanting round the Middle East, so please do come and join us throughout June and July before we pack up shop for a few months until our Christmas Specials in December!

Sunday 2nd: Watford Dial Up, 5pm at the Watford Palace Theatre

Saturday 8th: The Dial Up at Watford Live Festival, 5pm at Watford Central Library

Thursday 13th: Coco Dial Up, 7pm at Coco Cafe

Friday 21st: London Dial Up, 8pm at the Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden

Hope you can join us and much love! Alex xx

Cool Britannia was Smoking Hot!

Thanks so much to everyone who came along and made our Great British Songbook Dials Ups such a storming success! Special thanks to our first half performers including Jim Connor, Helen Green, Eclipse, David Silver, Skopje, GJ, Nicolette, Gilly Spencer and Kevin O'Brien. Thanks also to the inimitable David Forest (above) who had us laughing in the aisles at both Coco and Covent Garden this month! Thanks to Paddy Gormley for the photo!

The news is now out, as of this summer I'll be flying off to the Middle East and the Dial up will be taking a short break until I return for our Christmas Specials. So please do keep coming, bring your friends and family, and make our next three months of Dial Up fun as magical as they always are! Next month's theme is always a popular one: Movie and Musical Magic! Much love, Alex xx

5pm on Sunday May 5th at Watford Palace Theatre

7pm on Thursday May 9th at Coco Cafe Croxley

8pm on Friday May 17th at the Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden

April at the Dial Up: Cool Britannia!

With St George's day on the horizon, and Shakespeare's birthday too, April has become The Dial Up's traditional month for patriotism and home-grown pride as we dive into our theme COOL BRITANNIA: The Great British Songbook! Join us as we celebrate community, creativity and the poetry and music of our sceptre'd isle!

As ever the theme's just for fun, interpret or ignore it as you wish! The most important thing is that you join us for our inimitable evening of performance and open mike! Hope to see you there and much love, Alex xx

Join us at...

Watford Palace Theatre, 5pm on Sunday 7th April

Coco Cafe in Croxley, 7pm on Thursday 11th April

Seven Dials Club in Covent Garden, 8pm on Friday 19th April

March is often considered the month to put a spring in your step- our traditional theme to welcome in the new season. But this year we're shaking it up a bit, and adding a feather boa or two for good measure, as we shout: Viva La Diva! 

As ever you can interpret or ignore the theme as you wish (it's just for fun!) but expect a lot of songs associated with wonderful women performers and writers given a unique Dial Up flavour!

Join us at...

Watford Palace Theatre, 5pm on Sunday 3rd

Coco Cafe, 7pm on Thursday 14th

Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, Friday 15th

Hope to see you there and much love! Alex xx

Love Songs for the Month of Romance!

Welcome to February at the Dial Up, when all month long, in honour of Saint Valentine's Day, we'll be celebrating the theme of love!

Join us at 5pm on Sunday 3rd Feb at the Watford Palace Theatre, 7pm on Thursday 14th Feb at the Coco Cafe in Croxley, or 8pm on Friday 15th Feb at the Seven Dials Club in Covent Garden for a performance and open mic evening of music, poetry and much more besides lol!

In capitals this month, MUCH LOVE! Alex xx xx xx (extra kisses too!)

Happy New Year!

And what a wonderful start to the year The Dial Up has planned!

Join us at 5pm on Sunday 6th January at the Watford Palace Theatre where we'll be ringing in the New Year in style with our family friendly celebration of community and creativity!

Then at 7pm on Thursday 10th January we'll be bringing our unique brand of open mic to the Coco Cafe in Croxley, with two special guests: poet Rache Stone and singer Jenny Gould!

 And finally join us at 8pm on Friday 18th at the Seven Dials Club Covent Garden for our big New Year's Party! The theme is Anything Goes, so expect a fantastic evening! Hope to see you at one or all events! Much love, Alex xx