Mike Dennis

Live music by the sea

The first time Mike played a Sunset Session, the sun and rain were playing a game of hide and seek. Just as he was about to start his outdoor set, the heavens opened and we had to transfer everything inside. He started almost an hour late! But, it was so worth the wait, he takes your breath away. It will be like nothing you have seen or heard before.

Mike Dennis is a classically trained violinist whose boyhood love of Run DMC, Beastie Boys and Gangstarr led him to create a unique kind of string-heavy, hi-hop music, he refers to as ‘Violinica’.

“Violin in hand and a multitude of effects and loop pedals at his feet, he builds up to a string and percussion crescendo before opening his mouth and…wow! This guy doesn’t just spit rhymes, they just cascade out at a speed that is as ferocious as his lyrics.” Wake the Deaf

Performing using Jess (violin), a loop pedal and a cajon, Mike builds up layers of dense harmony and embellishes with thoughtful, energetic rhymes drawing inspiration from British life and the perils and profits of love with a fanaticism for rhythm bending and syncopation.

In his previous guise as half of Fidgital, Mike supported De La Soul, the Bays, J Live and Aesop Rock and toured mainland Europe extensively leaving crowds flabbergasted.