The List
Sign up. Perform. Next.
A free QR-code sign-up board for restaurants, open mics, karaoke nights and walk-in queues — anywhere order matters. Customers and performers scan a QR, you get a live running order. No account. No app.
PDF guide · live vocals
Crystal-clear vocals, every gig
The essential guide to dialling in live vocals — clean gain, zero feedback, a voice that cuts through any room. If you run the sound at an open mic, this is the one. Written by a gigging musician who plays 300+ shows a year.
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What are you running?
One engine. Four ways to use it.
Open mic night
Fair slots, live running order, no clipboard.
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Karaoke
Two songs each. Singers add themselves. You run the mic.
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Comedy night
Fair sets for every comic. No whiteboard, no drama.
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Restaurant waitlist
Walk-in queue for restaurants, bars, barbers, chip shops, clinics.
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How it works
Pick your event
Choose a preset or tweak the defaults. Takes 10 seconds.
Share the QR
Stick it on the door, project it on a screen, or drop the link into a group chat.
Run the night
Sign-ups stream in live. You reorder, randomise, or just call names in order.
Why it's different
Most sign-up tools want you to create an account, invite performers, verify emails, set up a team workspace. The List does none of that. Possession of the admin URL is the authorisation. Anyone who holds the link runs the event.
Performers never see an account wall. They scan a QR and they're in the list. The data vanishes 48 hours after the night — nothing long-lived, nothing to manage, no emails the next morning.
Performers don't just sign up and wait. Each one gets their own live page — a pie wheel showing the whole running order, a countdown to start time, and their slot pulsing pink when they're up. One tap Done on your side advances everyone, and auto-advance kicks in if you forget. Late arrivals can still be added as walk-ins without breaking the order.
Stop managing the clipboard.
Free, anonymous, no account, no app. Your next event is 10 seconds away.
The Live Scene — Latest
Open mics, grassroots venues and the state of live music. Our take, with a link to the source.
2,000 artists across 400 grassroots venues in one weekend — the circuit filled the gap Glastonbury left
Pollstar reports that more than 2,000 artists played over 400 grassroots venues across the UK from 26-28 June, on the weekend Glastonbury would normally have taken, with Music Venue Trust's Mark Davyd calling it a vote of confidence from communities all over the country. Our take: the rooms and the audiences are already there. What is usually missing is knowing which local night is actually on, and when — which is the bit we are trying to fix.
Open mic isn't just an acoustic guitar any more — electronic open mics now run in 15+ UK towns
EMOM (Electronic Music Open Mic) has grown from a 2017 experiment into a circuit covering Birmingham, Nottingham, Swansea, Bournemouth and a dozen more, with 15-minute first-come slots for anyone with a laptop or a synth. More kinds of stage time is good news for everyone — more nights worth showing up for.
Some good news for the circuit: the £1-a-ticket arena levy is reaching small venues
The Music Venue Trust says 2026 brings Grassroots Levy money — £1 from arena and stadium tickets — into small venues, plus £2m of its own to keep them open. A healthier grassroots scene means more open mics and more rooms to play. Worth knowing which of your locals benefit.
175 UK towns have lost their regular live shows — the grassroots circuit is fragile
The Music Venue Trust's latest report is stark: 30 grassroots venues shut last year and 175 towns no longer get regular touring shows. For anyone playing the circuit, knowing where the live nights actually still are matters more than ever — which is the whole point of The List.