An optional 2-course supper (except Big Band Sundays) is available but must be booked, vegetarians & others with dietary requirements will be accommodated if requested when reserving.

Reservations are required for all events.

Entry: members £12.00 non-members and guests £15.00

There is a 50% concession for students for all events.

We do not have the facility to accept payment for entry or meals by credit or debit cards although we do at the bar.

For information about ULEZ please see ‘About our Venue’ page.

July 2026

THURSDAY JULY 9 2026 LIANE CARROLL – PIANO & VOCALS

For more than thirty years, Liane Carroll has drawn crowds to Ronnie Scott’s in Soho, and we’ve been lucky to get more than our fair share of her. She remains the only performer to win both Best Vocalist and Best of Jazz at the BBC Jazz Awards in the same year, a feat from 2005 that nobody has matched since, and in 2008 she added Musician of the Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Her piano playing is as direct as her singing: nothing held back, whatever the song demands. At Googlies, her husband Roger Carey joins her on bass. Few singers make a room feel this close.

THURSDAY JULY 16 2026 SIMON SPILLET – SAXOPHONES

Ask Simon Spillett about Tubby Hayes and you had better clear your evening. Spillett has spent two decades chasing down Hayes’s story, a devotion that produced The Long Shadow of the Little Giant, a biography good enough to be awarded a Certificate of Merit for Historical Research in Recorded Jazz at the 2016 ARSC Awards (Association for Recorded Sound Collections). He plays with the same appetite he writes with: the Top Tenor Saxophonist prize at the British Jazz Awards in 2011, a Services to British Jazz honour in 2016, and a big band of his own that revives Hayes’s repertoire, first heard at London’s 100 Club and now captured on the album Dear Tubby H. Expect a tenor sound with history behind every note, from a regular who knows this room as well as any stage in Soho.

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THURSDAY JULY 23 2026 MARCO NATALE-MILES -TRUMPET & FLUGELHORN

Marco Natale-Miles came up through the junior jazz programme at the Royal Academy of Music, and he has kept the same range ever since: at home in a big band, a tight jazz combo, or the orchestra pit. At Googlies he brings both trumpet and flugelhorn, two instruments built for different jobs. The trumpet cuts through a room; the flugelhorn, with its wider bore and rounder tone, pulls the room in close. Expect him to move between the two all night, matching the horn to the mood of the tune. He is a rising talent, and Googlies got there early: this is far from his first Thursday night gig at Botany Bay.

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THURSDAY JULY 30 2026 ART THEMEN – SAXOPHONES

Art Themen spent the first half of his career as an orthopaedic surgeon and the whole of it as a saxophonist, and he never chose between the two. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge, fell in with the university jazz band, and by 1974 had joined Stan Tracey’s group, touring the world with him for the next four decades. The 2023 Parliamentary Jazz Awards shortlisted him for Instrumentalist of the Year, and he now plays a tenor saxophone with a history of its own: it reputedly belonged first to Hank Mobley, then to Ronnie Scott, before it found its way to Art. Six decades on, and many Thursdays into his history with Googlies, he shows no sign of picking a side.

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August 2026

THURSDAY AUGUST 6 2026 NAT STEELE – VIBES

Long before he ever played in public, Nat Steele had worked out most of Milt Jackson’s solos by ear, and he still plays that way: two mallets only, melody first, chords a distant second. His 2017 debut, Portrait of the Modern Jazz Quartet, sold out its launch night at Ronnie Scott’s; BBC Music Magazine named it Jazz Album of the Month, and it reached the jazz charts as far away as Japan. He has since toured the UK with the American saxophonist Grant Stewart and, last year, released a new collaboration with the veteran tenor player Scott Hamilton. Expect a set built on space and swing rather than showmanship, from a player Googlies keeps inviting back for good reason.

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THURSDAY AUGUST 13 2026 PAUL WOOD – VOCALS

Paul Wood came to singing early, and it gave him a range that few can match: a delicate ballad one moment, a rhythmic swing tune the next, without ever seeming to change gears. His voice has travelled with some of Europe’s best-known big bands, including the Glenn Miller Memorial Orchestra and the Syd Lawrence Orchestra, across stages in Europe and North America. At Googlies he brings that same easy authority into a room a fraction of the size, with nothing to prove and nowhere to hide.

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THURSDAY AUGUST 20 ALLISON NEALE – ALTO SAX & FLUTE

Allison Neale was born in Seattle, where her English father worked for Boeing, and raised in Northamptonshire on a diet of his West Coast jazz records. The influence never left: her alto tone sits in the lineage of Paul Desmond and Art Pepper, light and unhurried, even when the tempo says otherwise. She held the flute chair in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in the late 1990s, though it is her alto sound that has carried her career since, alongside stages shared with Duke Ellington’s one-time vocalist Adelaide Hall and West Coast legend Bud Shank. Googlies has hosted her before, and each time she has left the room a little “cooler” than she found it.

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THURSDAY AUGUST 27 NIGEL PRICE – GUITAR

Small jazz clubs do not have many champions in Westminster, but Nigel Price is one of them: he has petitioned government, alongside sixty-eight fellow Parliamentary Jazz Award winners, over funding for the kind of volunteer-run venue Googlies is, and in 2017 he took over the Swanage Jazz Festival to stop it folding. None of which would matter much if he could not play: he has made more than five hundred appearances at Ronnie Scott’s, his organ trio won the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Jazz Ensemble in 2010, and he has backed Van Morrison and supported Gladys Knight at the Royal Albert Hall. This is not his first Thursday at Googlies, and he closes our August line up knowing why rooms like it matter.

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