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Open mic night, every Monday, 9-12pm, in The Abbey Bar, 8 Lawn Street, Paisley.

05/01/2026

We're back tonight at the Abbey Bar for the world-famous Monday Night Open Mic Night. Hogmanay hangovers thoroughly banished, we're starting the New Year in exactly the same way we plan to continue—playing tunes from 9pm–late.

01/09/2025

We're back at the Abbey Bar tonight, as we are every week, 9pm 'til late. Bring you're best beats and boogies along to boast about 💃🕺

We're also bringing back our monthly theme nights, running from now until the end of the year, when we're have one big Christmas party and prize ceremony! 🎁

The theme for September will be COLOURS, any song with a colour in the title will get you a raffle ticket and entered into the end-of-year prize draw. 🎟

30/06/2025

Monday night can mean only one thing — we're back at the Abbey Bar Open Mic night from 9pm 'til late, hosted by Fraser tonight. Accepting submissions in the form of songs, soundscapes, and musical poetry all evening long.

What's your song of the summer? Come give us a strum.

23/06/2025

We're back at the Abbey Open Mic again tonight from 9pm til late. Hope you've all recovered from last week's two-day heatwave, normal weather service has resumed. Come down and give us a tune to blow those raintown blues away. Hosted this week by Andy Lindsay.

09/06/2025

We're back again tonight for the Abbey Bar open mic. Hosted by Fraser. Come sing us a song, play us a tune, or otherwise serenade us on grey Monday evening. 9pm – late.

02/06/2025

It's somehow June already and no-one's told the weather. We'll be back tonight in The Abbey bar for all your Open Mic wants and needs. Hosted tonight by Paul Shepherd.

Come on down, stick your name on the board, and sing us a sibilant song.

26/05/2025

Leading scientists agree the perfect end to a wet bank holiday weekend is, objectively, to join us again tonight for the weekly Abbey bar open mic from 9pm–12am. Sing us some songs about the weather, or how Bob Geldof feels about Mondays.

Hosted tonight by Fras McFarlane.

19/05/2025

Open Mic Night tonight at the Abbey Bar, 9pm–12am. Hosted by Fraser tonight as Andy Lindsay takes a well-earned rest. Head down early for good tunes, good pints and good pals.

17/03/2025

ATTENNNN-SHUN! It's the Abbey Bar Open Mic tonight, at TWENTY-ONE-HUNDRED HOURS, so FALL IN! (or just walk in)

The COMMANDS theme is in progress. To get yourself a COVETED raffle ticket for the end-of-month draw, perform a song that has a COMMAND as a title (see the pinned post for any elaboration). It's been a popular one, with almost THIRTY entries so far.

Tonight, we've got a NEW speaker system to try out, so come along and experience firsthand the myriad of HONKING and SQUEALING noises that will undoubtedly result from our general HAMFISTEDNESS and lack of technical KNOWHOW.

This is not a drill! Hope you can make it.

26/02/2025

MARCH approacheth, and it's time for a new THEME at the Abbey Bar Open Mic Night.

This month, we want songs with titles that are COMMANDS.

Yes, it's THAT easy. Any song where the title is a command, directive, instruction, etc. will get you a ticket for the end-of-month draw.

So, for example:

✅"Go Now" by The Moody Blues
✅"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" by Ian Dury & The Blockheads
✅"Stop" by Sam Brown
✅"Walk This Way" by Run DMC & Aerosmith
✅"Do The Hucklebuck" by Coast To Coast
✅"Whip It" by Devo
✅"Push The Button" by Sugababes

Oh, what the heck ... we'll also accept instructions 𝙉𝙊𝙏 to do something!

✅"Don't Leave Me This Way" by Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes
✅"Don't Stop Believing" by Journey
✅"Don't Go" by Hothouse Flowers

HOWEVER, we are drawing the line at creative use of punctuation:

❌ "You, Do Something To Me" by Paul Weller

So, this month, your primary directive is to get down to the Abbey Bar Open Mic, and bark out some instructions at us. 𝙌𝙪𝙞𝙞𝙞𝙞𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙈𝘼𝙍𝘾𝙃!

25/02/2025

Last night's winners ...

(By the way, it IS possible to win MULTIPLE prizes at the prize draw. If you're present during the prize draw, you can, of course, WAIVE additional prizes in the spirit of generosity. However, if you're NOT PRESENT, then we are forced to make that DIFFICULT decision for you. Weirdly, our decision has gone the SAME WAY every time! I mean, what are the chances!?!?!)

For the second month running, PETE won a bottle of Tequila Rose.
GRAHAM won a bottle of whisky.
In a high-sugar-content month, MICHAEL won a nice box of biscuits, and THOMAS won a box of Thornton's chocolates.
THOMAS also scooped the THEME PRIZE, which was two bottles of Cairngorm Gold ale.
The meal-for-two went to our occasional saxophonist songbird VAL.
And GAYNOR won the listener's raffle for a bottle of SPICY VODKA.

The five-Monday month of MARCH will have a brand new theme that is VERY accomodating ... watch this space!

23/02/2025

FEBRUARY draws to an end, and the final DREGS of winter are upon us. Soon, we will all be STIRRED by the warming hand of SPRING, and life will return to being VAGUELY TOLERABLE. Or, at least, as tolerable as life CAN be in an odd-numbered year with no watchable international sporting tournaments to look forward to. But we digress!

It's PRIZE WEEK at the Abbey Open Mic, so those of you who have been taking part in the GOLD & SILVER theme could get a REWARD of bottles, chocolates, or a meal-for-two. It hasn't been the most popular of themes, so there's still a good chance of SNATCHING a prize at the last minute (we've got a better theme for next month, watch this space).

We should probably FORMALISE the latest rule that has been in effect for the past couple of weeks. It goes like this …

• Any performer through the door before 10pm gets THREE SONGS.
• If you turn up between 10 and 11, you'll be on the TWO song list.
• And any TARDY CHANCERS who SWAN in during the final hour will consider themselves LUCKY to get ONE song.
• (All "time permitting", obviously)

There. Sorry to sound so RUTHLESS, but y'know, "needs must", "victim of our own success", and other such clichés.

So get yerself down to the Abbey Bar Open Mic on Mondays. We've got three guitars (acoustic/electric/bass), two mics, one cajon, and NO IDEA what to do with it all!

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