Second Helpings, with Jay Rayner Sextet

The Jay Rayner Sextet returns for a second consecutive year after a sell out show in with Green Room in 2024. Once again this is a show full of great music, killer stories and often quite inappropriate laughter. With Pat Gordon-Smith, voice; Dave Lewis, sax; Robert Rickenberg, bass; Chris Cobbson, guitar; Sophie Alloway, drums, come and get your 80s on and dance the morning away!

Renowned restaurant critic Jay Rayner, undoubtedly the best jazz pianist in Britain of all the judges on MasterChef, a man who came of age in the 80s, has long been fascinated by the chart hits from that decade which weren’t just jazz inflected but had jazz in their very bones.

Jay now leads an ensemble of top flight musicians to celebrate the greatest of those 80s songs, with new arrangements of brilliant tracks by Sade, Matt Bianco, Working Week, Everything But The Girl, Swing Out Sister, Sting and much more. Get your jazzy 80s on with the Jay Rayner Sextet. Box-shouldered jacket and big hair optional.