Live Music, Bands & Venues in South-West London & Surrey

Thriving jam sessions to which all are welcome, featuring a wide range of musical styles - rock, funk, blues, R'n'B and soul with a bit of reggae, jazz, latin and pop in the mix, with a great range of musicians taking part including players that work with houshold names. A different guest artist fronts the Jam-Pact house band each week (full list here), along with jam session organisers Mark and Tony on bass and drums. Friendly and enthusiastic audiences add to the great atmosphere, so whether you're a player or a fan of live music there are no better venues at which to spend your Monday and Tuesday nights in the Surrey and South & West London area.

We have been blessed with the appearance of many great talents at our events including Mick Rogers (Manfred Mann's Earth Band), Buddy Whittington (John Mayall's Bluesbreakers), Lightnin' Willie, Micky Moody (Whitesnake), Alan Glenn (Yardbirds, Nine Below Zero) and Papa George to name but a few!

Monday Jam Session at The Duke Of York (formerly The Elm Tree) music pub in Victoria Road, Surbiton (nr. Kingston), Surrey KT6 4NQ.
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Tuesday Jam Session at the Charlie Butler music pub in Mortlake High Street (nr. East Sheen & Barnes), London SW14 8HR.
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Live Bands & Music Venues - We have a growing number of great bands and artists that we promote at a number of live music pubs and venues in the South West London and Surrey areas. Check out who's on where in the gig-guide to the right.

If you are a good band looking for gigs, including function work, come down to one of our jam sessions and play a couple of songs, we find this much better than listening to mp3's/CD's! We are interested in bands of all styles.

Function Bands - If you're looking for a good function band for your wedding, engagement or birthday party, or for corporate entartainment we can provide live bands to enhance your event. We have artists for every type and size of function from a solo artist to a nine-piece soul band complete with horn section. Just let us know what you want here!.

The jam session is run in the following format: players/singers put your name down on the player list under your instrument/vocal category, we then put line-ups together from this list to play two-song sets. We don't operate a "first come first served" system, we try to put the most suited players together to get the best sets we can. It is very rare for someone not to get to play, however, early arrival is more likely to ensure you an optimum line-up, as if it is busy, which it usually is, it's easier to plan for players that are present. Depending on how many players for a particular instrument are there on the night, you may get to play more than one set.

Please note, this is not an open mic session for original material. If you are a singer, you need to know some "standard" songs as there isn't time to teach players new songs on the fly. Original or less than standard songs are OK if there is at least a guitarist and bassist there that already know them.