11TH OCTOBER 2026
DOORS 6:30PM
BROMLEY LITTLE THEATRE
FROM £20
Martin Harley live at Bromley Blues Club — Sunday 11th October 2026, and if you know what Martin Harley does with a slide guitar, you already know this is not one to miss. Thirty years on the road. Nine critically acclaimed albums. Glastonbury. The Royal Albert Hall. Sold-out tours supporting Grammy Award winner Bonnie Raitt. And now, one night in an intimate room in South London. Tickets are £20. They will not last.
Martin Harley — Slide Guitar Master, Three Decades in the Roots
Martin Harley stands at the crossroads of Americana, blues and folk — and has done for thirty years. Described by Guitarist Magazine as one of the UK’s finest contemporary roots musicians and by Roots Magazine as a slide guitar master, his is a reputation built entirely on the quality of the music and the power of his live show. There is no shortcut in his story. Just nine albums, thousands of shows, and a guitar style The Guardian called spellbinding.
He has recorded in Texas, Nashville, and Wales. He has played Glastonbury’s Acoustic and Avalon stages, the Royal Albert Hall, London’s Union Chapel, the Bluebird in Nashville, and the Troubadour in Los Angeles. He has toured with Bonnie Raitt. He brings all of that to Bromley Blues Club on Sunday 11th October — in a room that holds a few hundred people, close enough to the stage that you won’t miss a note.
Morning Sun — His Finest Album to Date
Morning Sun is Martin Harley’s first solo album in five years and, by the consensus of everyone who has heard it, his best. Produced by Nigel Stonier and recorded at Airtight Studios in Manchester, it features percussion by Michael Blair — the drummer behind Tom Waits, Lou Reed and Elvis Costello — alongside UK Americana stalwarts Mark Lewis on bass and Chris Hillman on pedal steel.
Two of the album’s songs were written in the wake of Harley giving up alcohol, and the honesty of that process runs through the entire record. This is not an artist playing it safe. It is an artist who has nothing left to prove and everything left to say.
Career Highlights
★ “One of the UK’s finest contemporary roots musicians” — Guitarist Magazine ★ “Slide guitar master. He is the business.” — Roots Magazine ★ “Spellbinding” — The Guardian ★ “A masterclass in taste, style and roots blues” — Guitarist Magazine ★ “Impossible to ignore the quality leeching out of every pore” — Blues in Britain ★ Nine studio albums — four recorded in the UK, four across the Atlantic in Texas and Nashville ★ #2 iTunes Blues Chart — Static in the Wires (2017), kept off the top only by The Rolling Stones ★ Americana Music Awards nominations — Instrumentalist of the Year, Best Acoustic Guitarist, Best Acoustic Blues Artist
★ Collaborated with 14-time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas — the world’s pre-eminent Dobro player ★ Collaborated with Grammy-winning drummer Derek Mixon — known for his work with Chris Stapleton ★ Sold-out tour support for Bonnie Raitt — Grammy Award winner and one of the greatest live artists of her generation ★ Glastonbury — Acoustic and Avalon stages ★ Royal Albert Hall, London — performed live ★ Union Chapel, London — sold out ★ Bluebird Cafe, Nashville — performed live ★ The Troubadour, Los Angeles — performed live ★ TV sync placements — The Vampire Diaries, Banshee, PBS Music City Roots, VH1 Big Morning Buzz ★ Recorded in West Africa — six weeks playing with musicians in Guinea, Senegal and Mali, including with Vieux Farka Touré, son of the legendary Ali Farka Touré
What the Press Say
★ “One of the UK’s finest contemporary roots musicians.” — Guitarist Magazine
★ “No doubt that he is a slide guitar master. He is the business.” — Roots Magazine
★ “Harley offers the listener a masterclass in taste, style and roots blues.” — Guitarist Magazine
★ “Impossible to ignore the quality leeching out of every pore — a beautiful album.” — Blues in Britain
★ “Sublime. If I could give it six stars I would.” — Music News ★★★★★
★ “Quite simply a great live act.” — Time Out London
★ “Harley is the master of the bottleneck slide guitar.” — Black Deer Festival
An Evening Not to Be Missed
Martin Harley live at Bromley Blues Club is exactly the kind of show this room was built for. An artist at the absolute peak of his craft, playing music that has taken thirty years and nine albums to distil to this point. The slide guitar. The voice. The songs. No distractions, no filler — just one of the most quietly extraordinary live performers in British roots music doing what he does best.
Tickets start from £20. Doors at 6:30pm. Showtime 7:30pm. This will sell out.
The Venue — Bromley Blues Club
Bromley Blues Club at Bromley Little Theatre is one of South London’s most characterful and intimate live performance spaces, located in the heart of Bromley town centre. With warm acoustics, sightlines that put every audience member close to the action, and an atmosphere that transforms a great performance into an unforgettable one, it is the ideal setting for an artist of Martin Harley’s calibre.
There is no bad seat. Every ticket puts you within touching distance of one of Britain’s finest roots musicians at the very top of his game. That is exactly how this music is meant to be heard.