TICKET-FREE
(BUT NOT FREE TICKETS!)
All Music Spoken Here events at The Marr’s Bar are ticket-free.
You can enjoy and support our nights of exceptional live music in Worcester in one of two ways:
Join our club
Join the Music Spoken Here Members Club for £18 per month and get one of our super-cool tees and complimentary entry with reserved seating for all our Kind of Jazz events on Thursdays.
Pay On The Door
Add the event to your calendar so you don’t forget, then just turn up on the night and pay on the door (cash or card).
Changes coming in January 2026
Pay What You Can
In September 2023, we introduced ‘Pay What You Can’ admission alongside our Club Membership, making exceptional live music in Worcester more economically accessible for over two years. This exercise has served its purpose in giving an extended opportunity for everyone to engage while also providing insight on the value of what we are bringing to Worcester, reflected in the contributions made by our audience.
We will continue to offer ‘pay what you can’ admission for non-members through to the end of the year. From January 2026, the admission charge on the door for non-members will be published in the event details for each event.
Club Membership
Club Members enjoy complimentary admission to all Thursday night events on our Kind of Jazz program. New memberships started from 1st January 2026 will be charged at £20 per month. Members who signed up before 31st December 2025 will continue to pay their original membership fee until they cancel their membership.
Admission charges on the door for events outside our Thursday night Kind of Jazz program currently apply to everyone. We may offer a comprehensive membership option in future that covers events across all our future programs.
When we started Music Spoken Here, we chose Eventbrite for ticketing. Initially we passed their processing fees (approximately 10% all-in) on to you – our customers. As an economically bleak winter approached, in December 2022 we stopped passing those fees on and absorbed them in our own costs. It was the right thing to do.
In August 2023, Eventbrite announced a new pricing model that would have resulted in doubling those costs for all new events published from September. At a time when live music and everyone’s pockets are already being increasingly throttled, we needed to change. We introduced Club Membership, alongside ‘pay what you can’ on the door admission. We have made exceptional live music economically accessible to everyone for over two years through this model.
To continue to grow and expand our programming over the next two years, we are retiring ‘pay what you can’ in January. Our Club Membership offers the best value for regulars, while more occasional attendees can pay for the individual gigs they want to attend.
We’ve introduced Club Membership for anyone who wants to support Music Spoken Here and exceptional live music in Worcester through monthly contributions. Club Members enjoy free entry and reserved seating for all our Kind of Jazz events on Thursdays. (Membership benefits do not currently extend to our new Sunday Service program, but in future we may introduce a comprehensive membership option that includes all our events). Members receive one of our super-cool Music Spoken Here t-shirts, access to audio recordings of the shows (conditional on permission from the band) and will be invited to participate in discussions and planning for the future of Music Spoken Here programming and operations. You can of course cancel your membership at any time.