Mar ’21: Live Piano Bar Streams During Lockdown

We loved keeping people entertained at home during the lockdown, whilst learning so much about multiple camera live streaming with professional audio.

Here’s the last few streams we did for the Piano Bar at De Luca in Cambridge, as Robin P-iano:

26th March ’21 – Live Piano Bar Requests Stream

19th March ’21 – Live Piano Bar Requests Stream

– 12th March ’21 – Live Piano Bar Requests Stream

March ’21: Robin Joins Delux Radio To Present ‘The Jazz Show’

We’re delighted to announce that Robin is continuing with his move into more presenting by joining the team at Delux Radio, to present a weekly show called: ‘The Jazz Show With Robin Phillips’.

Each week Robin will share his passion for the jazz genre across the ages, as well as focussing on specific albums from his own jazz vinyl collection, showing how certain musicians crossed over between ensembles and albums, looking at his pick of books and films on jazz, and interviewing a different personality from the global jazz scene.

‘The Jazz Show With Robin Phillips’ first airs on Friday 19th March 8-10pm GMT and a new episode will be aired each Friday.

Click here for more information on the show..

Feb ’21: Bespoke Streams Offered This Valentine’s Weekend!



Robin is offering bespoke love songs private gig streams this Valentine’s weekend!

Each performance includes a 40 mins private stream of classic love songs (pop and/or jazz) and your requests! Maybe even use it for a proposal?!

Over the past Robin has perfected his ability to stream from home and each stream looks great using four cameras and professional audio.

Pop songs could include: Just The Way You Are (Billy Joel or Bruno Mars), All Of Me (John Legend), Perfect (Ed Sheeran), Amazed (Lonestar), All You Need Is Love (The Beatles), A Million Love Songs (Take That), Drops Of Jupiter (Train), Isn’t She Lovely (Stevie Wonder), True (Spandau Ballet), I’m Yours (Jason Mraz), Let’s Stay Together (Al Green), Make My Dreams Come True (Hall & Oates), Save Tonight (Eagle Eye Cherry), Shape Of You (Ed Sheeran), We’ve Got Tonight (Bob Seger)…

Jazz songs could include: My Baby Just Cares For Me (Nina Simone), When I Fall In Love (Nat King Cole), The Way You Look Tonight (Frank Sinatra), Our Love Is Here To Stay (Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald), There Is No Greater Love (Chet Baker), Feeling Good (Nina or Michael Buble), Someone To Watch Over Me (Frank Sinatra), or dozens more.. or a mix of both!

£100 / $100 / €100 – only 4 slots available 6-10pm GMT Sat 13th Feb

Get in touch to claim your slot and discuss your requirements.

Dec 20: Now Selling New Dutch Grand Piano Shells In The UK

New Dutch Grand Piano Shells for sale!

We’ve been offering Piano Shells for hire for a few years now. However, having had lots of people ask us about purchasing shells, especially during lockdown, we’re delighted to announce that we can now sell them too, as an official Dutch Grand reseller in the UK!

Raise your game as a performer for gigs or video shoots; or choose one for your venue, the legs fold inside, they come with a protective cover, and of course there’s no tuning needed!

Fixed prices for black, white, and red shells, other colours available upon request.

December is probably a great time to get one as we have no idea what will happen to prices after Brexit is confirmed!

Click here for more information.

Dec 20: Tech Consulting On New Zoom Panto

It’s been an absolute pleasure providing audio consultancy and tech support for this amazing new Zoom musical / Panto, written especially for the Zoom medium and for children with special needs.

It’s called Dream Catcher and opens on Friday 4th December for two weeks!

repmusic provided technical (audio, visual, and Zoom) support for the show alongside live show designer Ash Day, enabling the cast to perform from home and achieving the best visuals and sound possible with the current restrictions, which included a rehearsal run through England’s second national lockdown.

It’s really good fun with a fantastic cast and a nice alternative to the Panto if you can’t get to one this year!

Click here for more information and tickets.

Dec 2020: Cambridge Jazz Festival Live Event Thurs 3rd Dec!

Robin’s Cambridge Jazz Festival performance is coming up this week on Thursday, definitely his biggest gig this year!

It’s a live performance with an actual audience (we hope!) at the Gonville Hotel in Cambridge.

Here’re the details:
Robin Phillips Trio + guests
Re-Versed – The Lost Verses Of The Jazz Standards
Dinner 6pm
Concert 8pm
Household groups only

Costs and options:
3 course meal and concert – £45 p/person
People attending the concert can also benefit from a concert-only offer of B&B for 2 for £99 (for both people)

Gonville Hotel have worked very hard to become a fantastically Covid-safe environment, with automatic temperature check upon arrival, automatic sanitising stations in every room, automatic doors added to the washrooms etc. If you are looking for something to blow the Lockdown cobwebs away but still stay as safe as possible, this is definitely a way to do that!

Click here for the Cambridge Jazz Festival event website.

Click here for the Facebook event.

Click here for the website page most relevant to this event, with video links, reviews, audio, interview links etc.

To book tickets contact Gonville Hotel: 01223 366611 / office@gonvillehotel.co.uk

We will also be streaming the gig LIVE using my latest 4 camera set up to the Cambridge Jazz Festival MixCloud channel

Thanks everyone, we hope to see you there!

Nov 2020: Cambridge Jazz Festival: Docu Screening, Q&A, and Dinner & Jazz events/live stream

The Cambridge Jazz Festival 2020 IS GO!!!

Robin is involved with a screening of his documentary including Q&A; and two nights of live performances with a live stream on the second night:

Thursday 19th November – Documentary stream

Robin’s USA road trip jazz & blues documentary ‘Back To The Source’ will be streamed 9-10pm including an introduction before with jazz musician and BBC presenter Sandy Burnett, and a Q&A afterwards with jazz saxophonist Kevin Flanagan.

This will be the only chance to see the documentary for free this year and only at the time specified (it will not be available after the stream).

Weds 2nd Dec & Thurs 3rd December – Live gig and dinner events

We are hoping that everything goes to plan regarding the latest lockdown and offering two amazing dinner and jazz events in conjunction with the Gonville Hotel in Cambridge.

‘Re-Versed: The Lost Verses Of The Jazz Standards’

The Robin Phillips Trio + special guests
Robin Phillips – vocals / piano, Jihad Darwish – bass, Alex Best – drums (guests include: Sam Miles – tenor sax, Neil Cowlan – guitar)

The Thursday performance will also be streamed live!

Only 30 seats available per performance (max 6 people per group).
THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE ONLY LIVE PERFORMANCES IN THE FESTIVAL

Nov 2020: Jazz FM interview and track play – Saturday 7th November

Robin will be interviewed on the Nigel William’s Saturday Show on Jazz FM on Saturday 7th November at 10:30am!

Tune in to hear Robin talking about his new Back To The Source jazz/blues road trip documentary which will be available to watch On Demand as part of the Doc’n Roll film festival from Sunday 8th – 15th November.

Nigel will also be playing an unreleased track recorded by Robin at famed Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with the Dexter Allen Band from Jackson, Mississippi, in the USA.

Oct 2020: Robin’s ‘Back To The Source’ jazz documentary in ‘Doc N Roll’ film festival

We are delighted to announce that our movie (full version – final edit) will get its world premiere in a few weeks as part of the London Doc’n Roll Film Festival!

The movie follows English jazz musician Robin Phillips on the road trip of a lifetime, reversing the journey of jazz and blues in the USA back to their sources, from Chicago via St Louis, Nashville, Memphis, Clarksdale, Jackson MS, the Mississippi Delta and finishing in New Orleans, on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle; listening and sitting in at gigs, recording at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, and interviewing various people on the way giving a unique insight into the places visited and their place in music history.

People in the UK will be able to watch our movie through the festival’s VOD channel, from 7pm 8th November, until 15th November, with pre-order available now! £5 and only available to people in the UK.

The movie was made by repmusic in collaboration with Creative Onions.

Click here to visit the ‘Doc N Roll’ film festival page about the documentary and to pre-book!

Click here to visit the ‘Back To The Source’ film’s facebook page.