Music & Tapas with G4 and XFactor Star Mike Christie

About

Join us at The Garlic Farm Restaurant for our monthly tapas & music evenings. We are very pleased to be hosting a series of visiting professional musicians for recitals throughout 2025 in collaboration with Wight Proms Wednesdays.

The restaurant will be open from 6pm serving a tapas menu until 7.30pm with 40 minute recital starting at 7.45pm. The bar will be open throughout.

Booking is via our restaurant booking page on www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk - select the date of the concert on the calendar

Wednesday 9th April we welcome

Wight Proms Festival founder & X-Factor and G4 star

"The richness of Christie's voice is staggering" Daily Mail

"Christie's stage presence is completely captivating" ET

"Blessed with a charismatic voice" The Stage

Mike created the annual Wight Proms festival and subsequently the spin-off concert series Wight Proms Wednesdays at Northwood House in his hometown of Cowes. He founded the main festival in 2018, which celebrates comedy, opera, musical theatre, dance, drag, country and classical proms, and will next take place on 11-18 August 2024.

He started singing professionally at the age of 8 when he was a chorister for five years, during which time he appeared in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral and sang on various movie soundtracks including The Browning Version and The Ref. He then went on to study music for four years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he gained a scholarship and a Bachelor of Music degree with honours.

Mike is a founding member of the vocal harmony group G4, who shot to fame on the first ever series of the hit TV show The X Factor. G4 have sold over two million albums in the UK, duetted with Lesley Garrett, Robin Gibb, Stephen Gately and Sir Cliff Richard, and headlined at the Royal Albert Hall more than a dozen times. G4 celebrate their 20th Anniversary next year, with the release of a brand-new studio album, and over 100 headline tour dates across the UK, including the Medina Theatre, Newport on 5th June, which Mike championed, being an islander!

Over the years, Mike has made over one hundred TV appearances including Through The Keyhole, Blue Peter, This Morning (12 times), The South Bank Show and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. He has raised over £9,000 for charity by running the London Marathon and the Great South Run for Bowel Cancer UK, a charity close to his heart.

Stage credits include the UK Tour of The Sound of Musicals, playing Claudio in the World Premiere of the musical San Domino, and Flaminio Scala in the European Première of Ahrens & Flaherty's The Glorious Ones. Mike's opera credits Prince Gremin in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Geronte de Revoir in Manon Lescaut, Duke of Norfolk in Saint-Saëns' opera Henry VIII, the title role in Mendelssohn's Elijah, Banquo in Verdi's Macbeth and with Opera Holland Park in Mascagni's Iris, Puccini's La bohème, Tchaikowsky's The Queen of Spades, Leoncavallo's Zazà, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, Mascagni's Isabeau, Cilea's L'arlesiana, and in Verdi's Requiem for their memorial concert to support those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Mike has written an opera called The Miller's Wife which premièred in London, where he wrote the plot, libretto and music, all of which was inspired by a discovery he made in his family tree. He is currently in the process of writing his second opera, based on the novel Pride and Prejudice.

Mike has released three solo albums, mainly of self-penned songs as well as some classics like Ol' Man River and Your Song.

In 2020, after the catastrophic devastation of the arts industry due to Coronavirus, Mike lost all his work overnight, however he diversified and performed two live shows online every Wednesday night for two year solid, totally over 200 shows, taught singing virtually from home, and released his third solo album 'The Mike Must Go On'. Since then, Then after COVID restrictions eased, he took the online shows on the road to 14 venues across the UK for his Valentine Tour. In June that year, he released a song he wrote to commemorate Her Majesty the Queen's Platinum Jubilee called 'The Heartbeat of Our Nation'. Mike was delighted to be a winner of the 'Isle of Wight Radio's Heroes of Lockdown Award' for keeping so many people's spirits up during the pandemic, with his live music, and the addressing of his audience's mental health.

For more information visit www.mikechristie.co.uk