Event type: Music

Join Virginia Kettle and friends from Merry Hell in this matinee show, featuring some of Virginia’s own musical offerings!

Starring Merry Hell’s leading lady, Virginia Kettle’s Rolling Folk is a new project that sees her collaborate with some of her marvellous musical mates.

Support is provided by Wirral’s Jim Pearson, winner of the Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge 2023. With nine albums to his name, Jim’s music is regularly heard on BBC 6 Music.

DOUBLE COUPLE OFFER (used code MERRYFOUR)

Buy four tickets (two couples) and save £8 off your total (does not apply to previously booked tickets). Offer also available for Merry Hell full band show (8pm) when booked separately.

MULTIBUY OFFER:

Book both Virginia Kettle’s Rolling Folk and Merry Hell (8pm), get £6 off your total.

OFFER Ts&Cs: The above two offers cannot be combined.

Following six sold-out Spinners Legends shows and last year’s final show from Hughie Jones, ‘Son of a Spinner’ Danny Jones keeps the ball rolling when he takes to the stage for an unforgettable evening of music and fun.

Danny will be joined by talented musicians Emma Scarr on fiddle, guitar and banjo, and Paul Cook on guitar. Completing the lineup is local legend ‘Count’ John McCormick. Rumour has it there might even be a special guest! Can you guess who?

Expect songs old and new, nautical and landlocked, local and overseas, plus all the old favourites that will have you singing in your seats and smiling all the way home.

Guy Chambers’ profile has never been higher, featuring heavily in the No.1 trending Robbie Williams documentary on Netflix. In ‘An Evening with Guy Chambers’, a member of the audience has a chance to be brought on stage to write a song on the spot with him.

Guy Chambers is one of the UK’s most successful living songwriters having worked with artists and writers including Tina Turner, Kyle Minogue, Scissor Sisters, Diana Ross, Tom Jones, James Blunt, Rufus Wainwright, Mark Ronson and many more.

Perhaps best known for his work with Robbie Williams, co- writing iconic hits including ‘Angels’, ‘Millennium’, ‘Feel’, ‘Let Me Entertain You’ and ‘Rock DJ’. He’s also composed for film and theatre including The Boy in the Dress for the RSC and the 2021 Sky Original film, A Christmas No.1.

Guy released his first piano album in May 2019, entitled Go Gentle Into The Light, which features a selection of solo interpretations of these many hits. An Evening With Guy Chambers includes piano interpretations not only of his many hits but also of his original material and the anecdotes and stories behind them, giving an insight into his career and creative processes.

Guy Chambers presents an evening to join him in his world of songwriting over a 40 year career. While playing arrangements of songs he has written over the years, he will tell the stories behind these songs in his own unique way.

He will also share hilarious anecdotes spanning his early years as a sideman in Aztec Camera, The Waterboys, World Party, and his own band, The Lemon Trees.

A lyric will be written (and signed!) and a video is made of the performance that is shared on his social media channels. Watch and marvel as a new composition is created right before your eyes!

Award-winning instrumental duo The Ayoub Sisters present an evening of live music including songs from their brand-new album, Arabesque.

The Ayoub Sisters will be joined by renowned jazz musicians, guitarist Filippo Dall’Asta and percussionist Giovanni Velez. Scottish/Egyptian instrumentalists and composers, The Ayoub Sisters have topped the classical charts, and are celebrated for their ability to unite different musical genres and cultures through their unique compositional style.

Multi-instrumentalist Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues, musician, actor, author, songwriter, so much more than ‘just a bluesman’, a troubadour of the folk tradition, and a master of his craft.

Guy uses a blend of roots, blues, folk, rock, rap, spoken word and world music to comment on and address the frustrations of social injustice, touching on historical events, and common life struggles.

Equally at ease with six or twelve string guitar, five string banjo, harmonica and even the didgeridoo, Guy’s work has seen him perform alongside Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Dr John, Taj Mahal and Joss Stone, opening for Chuck Berry, Joan Armatrading and BB King, and perform all over the globe. Adventures that once saw him chased out of Red Square in Moscow for trying to sing, performing in the then Soviet-occupied East Berlin, and in front of an iceberg in Greenland!

John Grant returns with his new album, The Art of The Lie, an idea first conceived in the Autumn of 2022 after an introduction to producer and composer Ivor Guest at Grace Jones’ Meltdown Festival.

The result is his most opulent, cinematic, luxurious album yet. A record juxtaposed by beauty and cruelty, it underpins a particularly emotional new chapter in the novelistic solo life of John Grant.

Pop icon Adam Ant announces dates for his UK tour – ANTMUSIC 2024.

Performing his classic chart-topping hits and personal favourites, Adam Ant will be appearing live across the UK throughout October and November 2024.

Ben Ottewell is the gravel-voiced frontman of seminal genre-hopping group Gomez, founded in Southport in 1995.

Ben returns to the Music Room following a triumphant performance in May 2023, when he played Gomez’s debut 1998 Mercury Prize-winning album Bring It On in full and as a solo act for the first time.

This performance will see Ben play tracks from Bring It On alongside other Gomez classics as well as tracks from his acclaimed 3 solo albums.

After 25 years in music, building an unimpeachable reputation as a truly independent artist and entrepreneur, Julian Taylor now owns his legacy.

It’s rare in this era to see an artist build slowly and reach a new level of widespread acclaim decades into their career. But Julian’s ethos, work ethic, and artistry has always had a timeless quality to it.

Toronto-based singer-songwriter Julian Taylor has been part of the musical fabric and landscape in Canada for over two decades. Taylor enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2020, when his second solo acoustic album, The Ridge, earned million plays on Spotify, praise from press worldwide, and airplay from America to Australia to the UK.