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Pub singalong with Mister Meredith at The Star Bazaar

The Singalong at the Coach & Horses, Soho. Let's Go Fly A Kite !

Roll Out The Barrel singalong with Mister Meredith at Nick and Nat's wedding

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About Mister Meredith

As featured on BBC and Channel 5, over the last 30 years I've worked around the UK & internationally in addition to regular gigs in London.

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Singer (baritone)

London

Public liability insurance of £10 million

I've sung and played piano since I was a child but only started performing singalong sets in the nineties and immediately knew I would be doing that for the rest of my life. Anything from old Music Hall and Cockney favourites to pop and West End hits, I’ll play and sing and encourage you to “along”. That’s pretty much how it goes. I studied Music, Drama and Dance at Birmingham University as I always knew I wanted to combine those disciplines in my own way. And now feeding off the energy of a room is one of my favourite things. What sets me apart from most other singalong acts is my ability to switch between, for example, old school cockney, Elton John, musical theatre and American songbook with ease, mostly playing and singing from memory so no awkward breaks to look things up. It means I can more or less make the set up as I go along according to the age and general make up of the audience. “Mr M keeps the spirits high throughout, generating a wave of bonhomie from the sheer pleasure of a room united in song that he surfs with finesse“ Ben Walters, Time Out My style is very much "pub piano", but I can break into a bit of stride every now and then. I also work as a cabaret host and singer so I'm adept at audience interaction and can belt out a tune in a strong baritone. “Highly experienced and proficient...his musical repertoire is clearly vast...Meredith is a top quality pianist” ***** Broadway Baby Some career highlights: I was the original pianist at Soho's famous Coach and Horses 2008-2019 as featured on the BBC News twice, also appearing on Channel 5's 2020 hit Wartime at Christmas. Recent corporate clients have included Hellman & Friedman, The Guild of Travel Writers, Goldcrest Films, Saatchi, Subsea 7 and Apple. And finally, I've been the after-party entertainment for the casts of various soaps at the Inside Soap Awards every year (apart from the Covid years obviously) since 2007! “What a talented and lovely man Mister Meredith is. I thoroughly enjoyed having a Sing Song round his piano” Duncan James

Mister Meredith

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Mister Meredith's Reviews

5 out of 5

Mr Meredith is a class performer, and very professional at the same time. He understood the requirements of our event perfectly and executed his repertoire in a way that engaged the event guests, while accommodating necessary pauses for speeches etc. Highly recommended!

5 out of 5

Luke's (or Mister Meredith's) piano singalong nights every Thursday at the King William IV Pub on Hampstead High Street are legendary, attracting people from all over London and further afield. Being the pub’s resident pianist, compere and entertainer for coming up to six years, he has an enormous repertoire of over 1,000 songs, many of which he can sing and play from memory. Audience participation plays an important part of these events and Luke frequently hosts various charity fundraising events that take place in the pub on these evenings. It’s extremely rare to find piano singalong events in pubs nowadays and you are always guaranteed a great time at Luke’s piano nights at The Willy, as the pub’s fondly known amongst its regulars. John P. Graham Hampstead Village London NW3

5 out of 5

Luke brought the music and the FUN for my birthday in November. He had everyone up dancing and singing along with everything from show tunes to pop songs and a few cockney classics. Highly recommend for all your parties.

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Mister Meredith's Song list

50's

Can't Take My Eyes Off of You - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

Crazy - Patsy Kline

Fever - Peggy Lee

Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

Kiss Me Honey Honey - Shirley Bassey

Que Sera Sera - Doris Day

Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette

That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly

When I Fall In Love - Nat King Cole

Who's Sorry Now? - Connie Francis

60's

American Pie - Don McLean

Bye Bye Love - The Everley Brothers

California Dreaming - Mamas and Papas

Congratulations - Cliff Richard

Daydream Believer - The Monkees

Delilah - Tom Jones

Dream - The Everley Brothers

Gilly Gilly Ossenfefferkatzenellenbogen-by-the-sea - Max Bygraves

Lily The Pink - Scaffold

Living Doll - Cliff Richard

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks

You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield

Beatles

Help

Hey Jude

Let It Be

Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da

Penny Lane

Twist and Shout

When I'm 64

With A Little Help From My Friends

Yellow Submarine

Yesterday

Elvis

Are You Lonesome Tonight

Blue Suede Shoes

Can't Help Falling In Love

Hound Dog

Love Me Tender

Return To Sender

Suspicious Minds

70's

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Dancing Queen - Abba

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

Hi-ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck

It Must Be Love - Madness

It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls

I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor

King Of The Road - Roger Miller

Mamma Mia - Abba

Money Money Money - Abba

Piano Man - Billy Joel

Starman - David Bowie

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

Tie A Yellow Ribbon - Dawn

We Are The Champions - Queen

A Windmill In Old Amsterdam -

Yessir I Can Boogie - Bacarat

Your Song - Elton John

80's

500 Miles - The Proclaimers

Ain't No Pleasin' You - Chas n Dave

Don't You Want Me Baby - The Human League

If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher

Jolene - Dolly Parton

Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi

Nine to Five - Dolly Parton

Perfect - Fairground Attraction

Rabbit - Chas n Dave

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonny Tyler

Xanadu

90's

Creep - Radiohead

Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion

Wonderwall - Oasis

00's

Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue

Mr Brightside - The Killers

Reach - S Club 7

Irish (and "Irish"!)

Cockles And Mussels

Danny Boy

Fairytale of New York

Fields Of Athenry

Galway Bay

Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly

If You're Irish Come Into The Parlour

My Wild Irish Rose

Peg O My Heart

That Old Fashioned Mother Of Mine

The Rose of Tralee

Too ra loo ra loo ra

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Wild Rover

Scottish

I Belong To Glasgow

I Love a Lassie

Loch Lomond

Roaming in The Gloaming

Music Hall

Burlington Bertie

Down By The Old Mill Stream

I Live In Trafalgar Square

I'm Henery The Eighth I Am

In the Shade Of The Old Apple Tree

In The Twi-Twi-Twilight

Knocked 'Em In The Old Kent Road

The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo

Two Lovely Black Eyes

Waiting At The Church

Musicals

All That Jazz -Chicago

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Monty Python

Anything Goes - Anything Goes

As Long As He Needs Me - Oliver

Beauty School Dropout - Grease

Big Spender - Sweet Charity

Cabaret - Cabaret

Consider Yourself At Home - Oliver

Do You Hear The People Sing - Les Miserables

Doh a Dear - Sound of Music

Greased Lightning - Grease

Hello Dolly - Hello Dolly

Hopelessly Devoted - Grease

I'd Do Anything - Oliver

I'm Getting Married In The Morning - My Fair Lady

It's A Fine Life - Oliver

Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee - Grease

Maybe This Time - Cabaret

My Favourite Things - Sound of Music

Oh What A Beautiful Morning - Oklahoma

On My Own - Les Miserables

On The Street Where You Live - My Fair Lady

Oom Pah Pah - Oliver

Sandy - Grease

Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Wizard of Oz

Summer Nights - Grease

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Mary Poppins

Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror

There Are Worse Things I Could Do - Grease

Time Warp - Rocky Horror

We Go Together - Grease

Wouldn't It Be Loverly - My Fair Lady

You're The One That I Want - Grease

Old time

A Bird In A Gilded Cage

After The Ball

Alice Blue Gown

Always

Any Old Iron

Boiled Beef and Carrots

Bye Bye Blackbird

Call Round Any Old Time

Comrades

Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow

Daisy Bell

Don't Dilly Dally

Down At The Old Bull And Bush

Down By The Old Mill Stream

For Me And My Girl

Goodbye-ee!

Heart Of My Heart

Hello! Hello! Who's Your Lady Friend

Hold Your Hand Out You Naughty Boy

Hometown

Honeysuckle and the Bee

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?

I Wanna Say Hello

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

If I Had My Life To Live Over

If You Were The Only Girl In The World

I'll Be Your Sweetheart

I'm A Lonely Little Petunia

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

Isle of Capri

It's A Long Way To Tipperary

It's Been a Long Long Time

I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts

Just Like The Ivy

Lambeth Walk

Leaning On A Lamp Post

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Let's All Go Down The Strand

Lily of Laguna

Little Annie Rooney

Ma He's Making Eyes At Me

Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner

Memories

My Old Man's A Dustman

Nellie Dean

Nevertheless

O I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

Oh Oh Antonio

Oh What A Beauty

Oh You Beautiful Doll

Oh! Johnny, Oh!

On Mother Kelly's Doorstep

Paper Doll

Poor Butterfly

Put Your Arms Around Me Honey

Rambling Rose

Roll Out The Barrel

Ship Ahoy

Show Me The Way To Go Home

Side By Side

Slow Boat To China

Someday You'll Want Me To Want You

Strolling

The Anniversary Waltz

Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Underneath The Arches

When I Grow Too Old To Dream

When I'm Cleaning Windows

When The Red Red Robin

When You're Smiling

Where The Blue Of The Night

Who Were You With Last Night?

Yes We Have No Bananas

You Are My Sunshine

Standards

All Of Me

April Showers

As Time Goes By

Beyond The Sea

Blue Moon

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Fly Me To The Moon

Georgia

Honeysuckle Rose

I'll String Along With You

I'm Confessin' That I Love You

I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter

It Had To Be You

It's a Sin To Tell a Lie

Mack The Knife

Minnie The Moocher

Moon River

My Way

New York New York

On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Pennies From Heaven

Singing In The Rain

The Way You Look Tonight

That's Life

What'll I Do?

Traditional

Amazing Grace

Auld Lang Syne

God Save The Queen

Hokey Cokey

Knees Up Mother Brown

Land Of Hope And Glory

My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean

Parlez Vous

Rule Britannia

She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain

The Quartermaster's Store

There Is A Tavern In The Town

There'll Always Be An England

What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor

DISNEY & TV THEMES

A Spoonful Of Sugar

A Whole New World

Beautiful Briny Sea

Bring Me Sunshine

Cheers

Everybody Wants To Be A Cat

Feed The Birds

Flintstones

Friends

Golden Girls

I Wanna Be Like You

Let It Go

Let's Go Fly A Kite

Muppet Show

Only Fools And Horses

Part Of Your World

The Bear Necessities

The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers

Top Cat

Winnie The Pooh

US OLD TIME

After You've Gone

Ain't She Sweet

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Baby Face

Bill Bailey

By The Beautful Sea

By The Light of the Silvery Moon

California Here I Come

Carolina Moon

Clementine

Deep In The Heart Of Texas

Deep Purple

Five Foot Two

Gimme The Moonlight

Good Morning

Home On The Range

I Wanna Be Loved By You

If You Knew Susie

John Brown's Body

Mamie

Moonlight Bay

Music! Music! Music!

Red Roses For a Blue Lady

Singing In The Rain

Skip to My Lou

Some Of These Days

South Of The Border

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay!

The Band Played On

The Joint is Jumpin'

Waiting For The Robert E Lee

We're A Couple Of Swells

Would You Like To Swing On a Star?

Yankee Doodle Boy

Yes Sir That's My Baby

You Made Me Love You

WARTIME

A Nightingale Sang in Berkely Square

Auf Wiedersehen

Bless 'Em All

Chick Chick Chicken

Coming In On a Wing and a Prayer

Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree

Happy Days Are Here Again

How Ya Gonna Keep Em Down on the Farm

I'll Be Seeing You

I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time

Kiss Me Goodnight

K-K-K-Katy

Lilli Marlene

London Pride

Mairzy Doats

Over There

Pack Up Your Troubles

Room 504

Roses of Picardy

Run Rabbit Run

Sally

Shine On Harvest Moon

Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty

That Lovely Weekend

We'll Meet Again

We're Going To Hang Out The Washing On The Siegfried Line

White Cliffs of Dover

Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler?

Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye

CHRISTMAS

Away In A Manger

Fairytale of New York

Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

I've Got Your Love To Keep Me Warm

Jingle Bells

Let It Snow!

Mary's Boy Child

Merry Christmas Everybody

O Come All Ye Faithful

Once In Royal David's City

Rudolph

Santa Baby

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)

The Holly And The Ivy

Twelve Days of Christmas

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

White Christmas

Winter Wonderland

In The Bleak Midwinter

Last Christmas

Rocking Around The Christmas Tree

Mister Meredith's Prices

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Performance duration	Price
Short performance (up to 15 min)	£300
Up to 1 hour	£300
Up to 2 hours	£400
Up to 3 hours	£500

Wedding ceremony

This includes music before the service begins, music during the signing of the register, and music as guests leave.

£400

Drinks reception

Two performances of up to 45 mins each during your drinks reception

£500

Wedding ceremony + Drinks reception + Dinner

- Music before the service begins, music during the signing of the register, and music as guests leave. - 2 x 45 min performances at the drinks reception. - 2 x 45 min performances as dinner is being served.

£600

Customer questions

What do your clients love most about your performances?

Because I don't have a specific set order I can bounce off the crowd in the same way a good DJ does, but with live songs including the ones they didn't realise they love to sing. It means I can shape my act to who's there, what the mood is, and most importantly, what you want the mood to be.

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

London Residencies: Soho's Coach & Horses 2008-2019 King William IV pub, Hampstead 2016 - present The George Tavern, Stepney and The Gladstone in Borough 2013 - present Other venues The Savoy Hotel, London St Paul's Church, Covent Garden Cahoots, Soho Mr Fogg's Emporium, Mayfair Mr Fogg's Tavern, Covent Garden

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

Fats Waller Charlie Kunz Mrs Mills Although my earliest influence is my childhood choir teacher Margaret Brewin who used to tour during the war as The Fourteen Year Old Wonder performing for the troops!

What is the most high profile gig you've performed?

I was featured on the BBC News twice with my piano singalongs at the Coach and Horses but it was also a highlight for me to play at The Savoy for the Travel Writers Guild Awards and always a pleasure to play for the casts of the TV soaps every year at their after party.

What if my timings change after I've booked you?

I will do my best to accommodate any changes. My sets are very flexible so please just ask.

Can you provide an iPod/DJ service before and between your sets?

I can run a playlist off my ipod, but only have a small PA so not good for very large spaces.

How much time do you need to set up?

If you have a piano and PA there I'm good to go the minute I step in the door! Keyboard takes 5 minutes to set up, but I'd allow 10 minutes for the mini-PA.

If I have a piano at my venue, are you happy to perform on that?

Yes. I've played on many a pub piano so long as it's in working order and in tune.

Can I pick the songs you play from the set list?

I'm ready to go with any of the tunes on my set list as I know them all off by heart. You can even request more on the day and I'm happy to play them if I can rustle up a chord sheet online

Are you able to bring your own piano or keyboard?

Yes, so long as it's in the UK. It's a digital Yamaha P45 keyboard which has built in speakers for small venues or can be hooked up to your PA for larger spaces.

Can you learn song requests before the event?

It's possible I already know it even if it's not included on the song list here. If you do have a special song I don't know, I'd be happy to learn it, although as this can take some time there would be a fee of £30 per song for that.

Musicianship

Genres:

Vintage, 1920s era music, 1930s era music, 1940s era music, 1950s era music, 1960s era music, 1970s era music, 1980s era music, 1990s era music, Christmas, Easy listening, Light music, Covers, Karaoke

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Instruments:

Singer (baritone), Piano, Keyboard

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Event types:

Birthday party, Wedding, Funeral / Memorial service, Charity event, Corporate event, Private event, Bar / Club / Venue event, Hotel / Restaurant event, Cruise, New Year's Eve, Christmas party

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Other skills:

Songwriter, Lyricist, Musical comedy, MC

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