About.
Tim Bloomer is a professional musician from Newcastle Upon Tyne. He graduated from a BMus(hons) degree in Jazz and Commercial Music in 2013, during which he specialised in guitar performance. Since then Tim has worked as a full-time performing and recording musician, becoming fluent in many styles of modern music and touring the UK and Europe extensively.
Between 2013 and 2016 Tim successfully managed and played guitar for a monthly residency night called The Collective at Hoochie Coochie in Newcastle Upon Tyne, one of the UK’s top Jazz and Funk clubs. For a period between 2013 and 2017 he also heavily focused his energies on Rock & Roll, Rockabilly and Country guitar touring, some highlights of which include supporting Sir Tom Jones and headline shows at top Rockabilly clubs and events across Europe.
2018 saw Tim’s entry onto the theatre show scene, when he played lead guitar and lap steel on the UK/European theatre tour of ‘You’ve Got a Friend: The Music of James Taylor and Carole King’ and ‘Tapestry,’ as well as for ‘Cinderella’ (and later ‘Aladdin’), at The Tyne Theatre & Opera House. This was followed by two sell-out residencies of ‘The Simon & Garfunkel Story’ in Dublin and London’s West End - which then toured throughout the UK and Europe in 2019 and early 2020 - as well as ‘Paul Simon’s Graceland Live,’ for which Tim backed American musician and YouTuber Joshua Lee Turner alongside a full live band and the South African Cultural Gospel Choir. He also played lead guitar for Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra for the majority of their 2019 album tour dates across Europe.
Besides performing, Tim was regularly in the studio in 2019 and 2020, playing both guitar and lap steel on numerous recording sessions for a variety of British and American artists. During this time he became an ‘Alvarez Allstar’ which has led to him working with Alvarez Guitars to produce videos for their website and social media pages, as well as playing their acoustic guitars exclusively.
2021 saw Tim deepen his working relationship with Alvarez Guitars, continuing to make online content while working as their main demo artist. Alongside this Tim worked live and/or in the studio with ‘Ruth Lyon’, ‘Bare Roots’, ‘Chintzy Stetson’, ‘Elizabeth Liddle’, ‘Rob Heron’, ‘Poor Moi’ and ‘Memphis Gerald’ and was the recipient of an Arts Council England grant for his project ‘A New Outlook For The Palm Bender Lapsteel’.
2022 was an exciting year, continuing his ongoing projects and developing his work with Alvarez Guitars. Alongside this, January began with an extended run covering the ‘Guitar 3’ chair in the orchestra for ‘Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock’, in both Manchester and Edinburgh. In April Tim joined ‘Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock’ permanently for the last four months of the tour, taking over the position of ‘Guitar 2’ in the orchestra.
From January - November 2023 Tim played guitar in the orchestra for the award-winning musical, ‘The Bodyguard - The Musical’. December 2023.
From December 2023 until the end of September 2024 Tim played guitar for the ever-popular Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, ‘The Wizard of Oz’, which was reimagined and reorchestrated for this production which toured the UK and had a residency in the West End. In 2024 Tim also played live, in the studio, or on National Radio with ‘The Wandering Hearts’, ‘Alvarez Guitars’, ‘A Night With Janis’, ‘The Tim Bloomer Collective’ and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical ‘Joseph’. He also hosted a Masterclass in Electric Guitar at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.
Tim will be playing guitar for the 2025 tour of Kinky Boots
Over the last decade Tim has developed an ability to truly engross himself in particular musical styles and genres; to replicate and then develop them as far as possible. Each experience has deepened his overall musicianship, making him an extraordinarily sensitive and nuanced player, engaged in a persistent effort to offer the relevant musicality to any style and to define and develop his own sound.
