WAITING FOR SUNDAY
From the sublime to the ridiculous, often offbeat, occasionally on-the-one - The Waiting Room has put on all original left field live music and arts events for over 30 years. Taking place on Sunday nights Waiting for Sunday is an incredible programme of independent diy song-making, performance art and social happenings; from folk to anti-folk, punk cabaret to indie pop, avant-garde chamber jazz to the art of noise with self-built automaton machinery and mechanical hats...
Featuring local grass roots talent alongside established international touring bands, astonishing writers, musicians and performers; colliding traditional and ground breaking artists - spanning spoken word, comedy, poetry, plays, cinema, community art and food events. Expect the unexpected.
COMING UP
Waiting for Sunday events take place with cabaret style seating and table service, or theatre style seating, with occasional standing gigs. Sunday nights feature a shorter menu, written to the blackboard. The Other Room bar is open throughout. Book a table for food Email hello@thewaitingroom.uk or call 01642 780465.
2026 / RECENT EVENTS
NEWS FLASH: WAITING FOR SUNDAY GRANTED ARTS COUNCIL FUNDING FOR 2027.
Waiting for Sunday has been awarded Arts Council funding towards our 2027 programme. Having subsidised and run Waiting for Sunday voluntarily for 30 years, this Supporting Grass Roots Music award is wonderful recognition of the special night we’ve created through over 1000 extraordinary events - and will make a big difference to what comes next.
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PAST GLORIES
POSTERS
LINKS
Jane Bombane | Nick Pynn | The Fugitives | Carmen & Dick | Duke Special | Thomas Truax | Jeans Goes Pop | Alex Horne | John Otway | Chris Wood | Boothby Graffoe | Trembling Bells | Suzanne Elizabeth Marron | Mercedes | Andrew Johnson | Misty's Big Adventure | Stewart Lee | Josie Long | Jeffrey Lewis and The Voltage | Peter Stampfel | Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo | Pete Firman | John Bishop | Men Diamler | King Creosote | Benjamin Wetherill | Malcolm Middleton | The Folk Theatre Partisans | C.R. Avery | David Broad | Stanley Brinks | The Wave Pictures | The Burning Hell | Trevor and Simon | Simon Munnery | Martin Carthy | Dave Swarbrick | Eliza Carthy | Pictish Trail | Freschard | Randolph's Leap | Kristin Andreassen | David Thomas Broughton | Nev Clay | Buddy Wakefield | 7 Hertz | The Sweetback Sisters | The Rheingans Sisters | Kathryn Williams | Withered Hand | Dressed Like Wolves | Ergo Phizmiz | Anna & Elizabeth | Peggy Seeger | Jodie Nicholson | Shrug | The Bob Fischer Experience | BA Johnston | Pellethead | MJ Hibbett and The Validators | Baskery | Sweet Baboo | M. Craft | Jarvis Humby | Uwe | Molly Bloom | Martin Simpson | Emma Fisk | Paul Donnelly | Space Raiders | Gary Bradford | The Danny Kebabs | Dressed Like Wolves | Tom Joshua | Amelia Coburn | Vin Garbutt | The Young Uns | Cath & Phil Tyler | Serious Sam Barrett | James Yorkston | Nel Unlit | Derrick Brown | Kate Daisy Grant | Michael Rossiter | Bush Gothic | The Chapin Sisters | Cattle & Cane | Diane Cluck | Yama Warashi | Sargeant Buzfuz | Rachael Dadd | Ichi | Snowapple | Barry Hyde | Baby Gramps | Louis Barabbas and The Bedlam Six | Boo Hewerdine | The Research | The Piney Gir Country Roadshow | RM Hubbert | The High Plane Drifters | Pete David and The Payroll Union | Say Sue Me | Brigid Kaelin | Mark Berube | Judson Claiborne | French for Rabbits | Pete Greenwood | Howard Eynon | Mary Hampton | Martin Stephenson Daintees | Chris Helme | Fiona Bevan | Jackie Leven | Elaine Palmer | Samantha Whates | Jefferson Hamer | MG Boulter | James The Fang | Paul Smith | Brigid Mae Power | Group Listening | David Ford | Spell Token | Simon Donald | Chris Donald | Andy Jones | Old Muggins | Civil Insolencies | Bob Beagrie | Harry Pearson | Mark Robinson | Andy Croft | Smokestack | The Pocket Orchestra | Anita Aslin | Milo Thelwall | Kev Howard | Rattle | Black Umfolosi | Gone Tomorrow | Frazer Lambert | Mad Ones | Spirits Of Saturn | Shotgun Jimmie | Mt Misery | Paper Beat Scissors | James Leonard Hewitson | Eagleukes | Warwick Smith | Chip Bailey | Jake Clarke | Sandra Kerr | Adam Rivera | SJ Newman | Lifter | Old Red Eyes | Woolverstones | Tim Moon | Smokestack Books | Tali Trow | Pete Williams | Cosial | Cannonball Statman | Chubaby | France de Griessen | Kinfauns | Tom Hingley | Joe Hamill | Faith Eliott | Marina Josephina | Birkett & Fisk | Tim Brownlow | Memphis Gerald | Cybil Ends | Clementine March | Alexis Taylor | J.P. Riggall | Lauren Housley | Maggie May Treanour | Ayu Okakita | Amy Scott Samuel | Dominoes | Joe Solo | Sara Dennis | Peg Powler | Noel Dennis Band | Matt Deighton | Mountain Song | Ben Creighton Griffiths Trio | Simeon Walker | Jake McKelvie | Jon Gomm | Mark Morriss | Adam Ross | Nighttimes | Scott Turnbull | Claude Bourbon | Technology and Teamwork | Space Raiders | Leanne Zacharias | The Grasping Straws | Gill Sandell | The Flying Kaniks | Twi The Humble Feather | Patti Plinko and Her Boy | Donald's Trumps | Scarred for Life | Wiffle Lever to Full | Richard Milward | The Third Policeman | The Leather Dinner Party | Jeanie Finlay | Orion | Seahorse | Sound It Out | Game of Thrones | Spadger | Wilf Lunn | Smokestack 20 Years | Yusef | Paul Smith (Jazz Drummer) | John McGough | Les Cox Sportifs | Rudolph Rocker | Hailbails | Aurora Engine | Lottie Turner | Tom Archer | Glad Town Ghost | Lewis Pugh | The Mean Valley Stompers | Max Bianco | Justin Hopper | Dominie Hooper | Andrew T Smith | Tommy Remon | Before Breakfast | Harry Endersby | Fiona Bevan | James The Fang | Spell Token | Melt Water | Jay Moussa Mann | Mary Lattimore | Tom Fletcher | Luckless | Hold Music | Ridley Woof | The 150m Friends Club | The Shooting Of | Trev Gibb | Daniel Knox | George Boomsma | Cherry Head Cherry Heart | Simon Donald's School Of Swearing | Biscuit Head and The Biscuit Badgers | Timothy James Oxnard | Suzanne Elizabeth Vanner | Peculiar Disco Moves | Serinette | Bridie Jackson and the Arbour | The Hepburns | Grawlixes | James Gray Robson | Secret Of The Whipt | The Winter Hill Transmission | Ben Hopkinson | WKJ Anderson | Nocturnal Dictionary | Piney Gir | Darling Boy | Polly Garter | Sam Forrest | Pip Mountjoy | Holy Moly and the Crackers | John Harrison | General Sherman | Nico Cara | The Gren Bartley Band | Dan Mangan | Outside Your House | Hot Nuts | Pete Scott | Dog Watch | B.E. Holland | Rebekah Findlay | Bob Beagrie, Andy Willoughby and Project Lono | Quidgybopper vs Blue John Benjamin | Ribbon Road | Folk Daddy | Union Jill | Nessy Williamson | Fake Thackray | The Juice Vocal Ensemble | Matt Stalker and Fables | Ditte Elly | Fran Muriel | Correa Town | Sarabeth Tucek | Rue Royale | Georgia Seddon | Bob Fischer in Conversation, with... | Melodica Melody and Me | Mishkin's Ruby Warblers | Bombane's The Musical | Joe and Helen Hammill | Rosi Lalor | Shahaf Ifhar | JB Butterfield | Citizen Zeitgeist and The Vain Glorious | Jane Gardner | Hauswerk | The Andy Johnson Threesome | Amsterdam Film Company | Andy Broderick | Alasdair Roberts | Oliver Cole | Tom Blackwell | Anna Karila | Nighttime | Claude Bourbon | Eliza Hatch | Jon Gomm | Adam Ross | Tim Brownlow | Mountain Song | Project Bluenote | Holly Throsby | The Why and Wherefores | Paul Pilot | Dan Donnelly | Judson Claiborne | Leanne Zacharias | Shotgun Jimmie | Chris Wood | Jackie Leven |