About

Thebigopenmic.com started as a grass roots independent music project during lockdown at a time when all live music was being cancelled.

The idea was born to build a dedicated platform where all musicians and open mics could come together.

A small membership fee enables us to give back and support musicians and those who run open mics and music events, while also preventing spammers and needing to monetise the platform with adverts.

  • Video Library

    Thebigopenmic is integrated with Youtube and Facebook meaning any videos hosted there can be easily embeded here with full categories and filtering by artists names.
    This allows us to create a fully filterable music videos library with no other activity or spammy adverts.

  • Competitions

    Likes = Votes!
    Regular charts showing the months Top 10 liked videos each month along with CASH PRIZES for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
    Members Raffles with random CASH PRIZES meaning everyone has multiple opportunities to win.

  • Open Mic Directory

    If you run an open mic, add it here in a fully filterable directory.
    Members can subscribe and follow as you add more content, videos, events, and more...
    Thebigopenmic is setting up a portion of Membership Fees to be given back to Open Mics to help with equipment and developing local grass roots music events.

MEMBERSHIP

Guests can browse all content, but we have 2 Membership levels that allow different access.

One is free, the other paid which allows us to do what we do! 

FREE MEMBERS

Anyone can register as a FREE member.

Access all areas, vote for videos and support your local musicians and open mics.

FULL MEMBERS

FULL members are the backbone of Thebigopenmic.com!

Just £12 per year (less than 2 pints in most pubs…) means we can keep going, keep developing and keep giving back to members.

As a FULL member you can…

Add videos

Have your own profile page where people can follow you

Automatically be entered into CASH competitions on a regular basis

Claim your FULL members raffle tickets for ongoing regular CASH giveaways

Add you Open Mic (as a host) and gain followers and promotion

and more to come…!

 

The more FULL members join, the more we give back!

HOW TO

ADDING VIDEOS

Adding Videos is simple.

First videos have to be already on either Youtube or Facebook.

Copy the URL of the video and paste it into the correct space in the ADD VIDEO link in the main menu.

(The URL can be found by clicking on the video and copying the main URL at the top of your browser)

Sample version for referance can be seen in the ADD VIDEO page.

Fill in all other fields, Title, any desciption you want.

Select Category of music type and enter the original artists name – this all helps for others to find your videos.

With Youtube videos, a screen shot will automatically be produced.

With Facebook videos, you have to add an image as well, this is due to Facebooks own limitations.

Then click save!

You video will then appear in the Latest Videos section and under all the filtering options.

It will also automatically be entered into any running competitions at the time.

EDITING VIDEOS

Once your video is added you can make edits to it.

All your videos will show on your profile page for easy finding (profile link in the top menu).

On each videos view page, you will see a red EDIT icon and DELETE icon under the videos title.

You can also reply to any comments at the bottom of the videos view page.