MIKE VIOLA

West Hampstead Arts Club presents: MIKE VIOLA

A rare opportunity to catch the great Mike Viola at the grand surroundings of Chats Palace. Mike Viola — producer, songwriter and the kind of musician your favourite musicians quietly obsess over. Decades in, and somehow he keeps finding new generations to infect.

Since 2019 he’s been on a proper run with releases like The American Egypt and Godmuffin — all cut at his LA home studio, Barebones. Sold out US shows and a growing fanbase followed. September 2024 brought Rock of Boston, recorded on half-inch tape over the winter of 2023 with Jake Sinclair on bass and Brendon Urie on drums. Viola wrote most of it on a Panic! At The Disco tour bus, sneaking into local studios on days off. When the tour ended, he and the band carried on playing straight into the tape machine, which might explain why the riffs feel bigger.

On 12th November 2026 he brings that to London’s Chats Palace. No hyperbole necessary. Just go!