Tickets £8, Doors 7pm, Performance 8pm

Mike Outram Trio

Mike Outram - Guitar

Ross Stanley - Organ

Andy Trim - Drums

Mike's long and varied career includes recording for Steven Wilson on his Insurgentes album alongside Jordan Rudess, Tony Levin and Gavin Harrison; playing on this with Danish drummer and composer Sebastiaan Cornellisen and John McLaughlin bassist Hadrian Feraud; playing classical guitar with string quartet to a film at the Sao Paulo Film Festival, Brazil; recording Laura Rossi’s soundtrack to ‘The Firm’; playing swanee whistle in a tribute to Clangers creator Oliver Postgate; playing on Theo Travis’s proggy/rock/jazz/ambient album with Robert Fripp (King Crimson); a European tour with soul-funk legend Carleen Anderson; gigs in South Africa with Herbie Mann; sessions with Photek and the Cinematic Orchestra, recording math-geek-metallers The Banzai Buddy Band and writing and recording his own music.

Jazz projects include: Martin Speake’s various projects which explore contemporary jazz, Indian carnatic influenced music, free improvised music, be-bop, and so on; Asaf Sirkis’ Messiaen-meets-Prog group; Issie Barratt’s insanely challenging Big Band; Pop/country singer-songwriter Rebecca Hollweg; The Tony Woods Project, Gareth Lockrane, Dylan Howe, Harvey Brough, Tim Whitehead, Karen Street, Jacqui Dankworth, Jamie O’Donnell, Dave O’Higgins.

"Outram is a guitarist with world-class credentials." The Guardian

"Mike Outram is without doubt the most talented guitarist of his generation" Steve Rubie – 606 Club

"Mike Outram plays the sweetest wailing rock guitar in Britain. It’s a sound of great beauty." Seb Scotney, London Jazz

"Bear witness to the rocket–science guitar that is Mike Outram" Dazed & Confused

"combining the feeling of vintage John Lee Hooker with his own much more sophisticated technique" Manchester Evening News