Free Entry Open Mic at The Townie in Newtown, New South Wales | Performance & event venue

Free Entry Open Mic at The Townie

Locality: Newtown, New South Wales

Address: 326 King St 2042 Newtown, NSW, Australia

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21.01.2022 We've had spots open up tonight at 9:10pm and 10:40pm, email [email protected] (or click send message on this page) if you'd like to grab one of them. No bands tonight sorry, band spots are available from the 29th of April onwards. You can try showing up in person of course, but first in best dressed. Picture only vaguely related. (The original Subwoofer is now working again)

20.01.2022 Arnab & Anshu - My Experiments With Life

18.01.2022 Unfortunately I got the call a couple of hours ago to say that with everything going on all live music at The Townie has been suspended until further notice, so for the time being our open mic has to stop. I'll update the page when any future opportunities arise. In the meantime I'm suddenly out of work and keen for anything going! If you were using open mic to get yourself a demo recorded or your set filmed I can still help you with that - for instance at a rehearsal studio... or other locations. I do offer other services outside of the Townie including equipment and cable repair, freelance mixing etc. You can reach me through [email protected], or message through this page. - Sally

16.01.2022 Hello, checking in again! Still no news on the return of open mic I'm afraid. Some of you have noticed the Great Southern Nights gigs being advertised at The Townie over this month and naturally have been sending enquiries about other gigs, unfortunately the Great Southern Nights shows are all we have going so far. The regular four night a week program the venue had pre-covid is just not viable at the moment, I'm trying to get some sort of weekday thing happening but it will ...not be this year unless we manage to secure some external funding to put these events on. If you'd like to do something to help the bigger picture for live music in NSW please consider sending a letter to your MP with the web form organised by MusicNSW below - it's easy, takes a couple of minutes. There's also a petition on that site you should sign if you haven't already.

14.01.2022 Just a quick update as a few people have been asking, unfortunately we still have no word on music starting up again at The Townie and don't expect it to happen until at least the 4sqm per person restriction is removed. I know other venues are doing some shows and that's great; different circumstances here unfortunately, it's not a venue we can adapt to a ticketed model like some have. Hopefully you're all out there still writing and practising, we will be back one day and I'll let you know here when it happens!

14.01.2022 Hello, hope you're well. Just checking in re: open mic - we're still off for the forseeable future unfortunately. The Townie like many venues is not pulling in the revenue to pay for live music at the moment but you can help by signing this petition to the NSW government to provide a rescue package for NSW venues akin to the Victorian effort: https://www.sosnsw.org/ In other news, if you're in a band that still wants to rehearse at the moment, check out Sound Hole in Marrickville - this is something I am just starting up, it is still very barebones but it's cheap as!

04.01.2022 From 5pm today to 5pm tomorrow in Australia (Sydney time) anything you buy on bandcamp will put more in the artists pocket than usual as Bandcamp waives their revenue share again. Please comment below with bandcamp links to your own or other acts you want to recommend to the music buying public!

01.01.2022 Youthful Fatigue