Born in London, via-Stroud, Oxford, Brighton and now living in Brixton, Mike has been playing bass guitar for 24 years. Though mainly self-taught Mike has studied privately with great bass players Mike Mondesir, John Goldsby, and Rob Statham, playing music from across the spectrum of styles; from full-on rock bands to piano jazz trios, even a little classical opera group. Playing countless live gigs and numerous recording sessions, has made him a very versatile bassist. As well as holding it down with funk band Groove Digger, Mike has played with some amazing musical talent that includes live performances with members of Oxford dance band legends The Egg (playing live on MTV and Channel 5), opera singer Heather Cairncross, Soweto Kinch, Robert Mitchell, Tom Pilling, Roy Dodds, Robin Banerjee (Amy Winehouse), Lauren Dalrymple (Jazz Warriors), Mamadee Kamara (Courtney Pine, Andy Sheppard) Dylan Howe, Shannon Harris (Wheatus, Lilly Allen), Ben Sarfas (Lou Rhodes) and most recently singer Paula Rae Gibson plus dozens of superb jazz, rock and world musicians. Mike has also carved out an extremely successful career as a music journalist and writes regular columns / reviews as the Jazz Editor at Time Out magazine London, Jazzwise Magazine and Bass Guitar Magazine. He was been chosen to be one of the judges for the 2008 ‘Mercury Music Prize‘. He's begun work on a new solo bass-led project that will span jazz, funk and left field dance music and feature many of the fine musicians he knows and works with in and around London - this will be due for release sometime in 2009.

Title	Genre	Released	Plays
Windjammer - performed live	Funk	Aug 23, 2011	234