Mill Farm Music

19/10/2025

About to head out on a new run of shows this Autumn 🍂 — first with the incredible multi-instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunggren - Musik, then solo as I preview songs from my upcoming album Only Love — with some wonderful collaborations and special guests along the way, including Luke Wallace.

✨ It all leads to Dec 7 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham — a very special End of Year Review with Jasmine Gardosi Poet, percussionist Alex Lowe and pianist David O’Brien ✨

Relaxed, reflective evenings full of connection — come and be immersed in the music 🎶

🎟️ Full dates below ⬇️ Tickets dan-whitehouse.com/live

THURS OCT 23 • Crediton Arts Centre *
FRI OCT 24 • Mill Farm Music *
SAT OCT 25 • Petworth Sessions *
FRI NOV 7 • Grove Notts ****
SUN NOV 16 • ‘Find Your Voice’ Workshop Company Of Song **
MON NOV 17 • The Prince Albert , Stroud **
THURS NOV 20 • The White Room Music Cafe
SUN DEC 7 • Symphony Hall B:Music ***

08/10/2025

I realised we have had our new Guitar Bar for over a year and I haven’t made a post about how cool it looks …. Try pop down sometime

04/10/2025

01/10/2025

It's October (or should I say Oktober?) already!

FOUR chances to catch my collaboration shows with my great friend and incredible multi-instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunggren - Musik this month.

We love playing together, we pass the baton - taking turns to accompany one another on each other's material. These shows will be intimate, relaxed, reflective evenings - you are invited to come and be immersed in the live music - so please do have a look at the dates/locations and see if you can make one!

WEDS 22 OCT at The Barrel House Ballroom
THURS 23 OCT at Crediton Arts Centre
FRI 24 OCT at Mill Farm Music Bradford Abbas
SAT 25 OCT at Petworth Sessions West Sussex

Ticket links in comments.

Dan x

📸 Paul Ward

01/10/2025

19/09/2025

Friday 21st November we are very excited to have back at mill farm! Tickets in bio

07/09/2025

Very excited to have Dan Whitehouse back at Mill Farm. Tickets 🎫 in Bio

13/08/2025

It was an absolute pleasure hosting Rebecca and the New Jazz Code at Mill Farm on Friday 8th. Thank you to for the great food 🥘

13/08/2025

After meeting a fellow musician Norton Alaman, who offered to record Luke’s album, the two spent 7 months in a bedroom studio in Hoi An, recording ‘The Road Less Traveled’. After the recording was complete, Luke’s brother Ben Webster - producer and multi-instrumentalist - set to work on mixing and mastering the album in their home studio in Somerset, England. Luke is currently recording his sophomore album ‘The Heart of a Dying Star’, set to be released later this year. The album addresses the struggles and pressures of living in the information age. 🎫 tickets in bio

27/07/2025

02/07/2025

Ollie Lisney hopes to swap ciabattas for chart success. The Shaftesbury singer-songwriter, who works at his mum’s café, King Alfred’s Kitchen, has recorded his debut album at Mill Farm Studios in Bradford Abbas. The 12-track release was produced by St James Street-based Tom Joblin.

https://soundcloud.com/thisisalfred/shaftesbury-cafe-worker-creates-debut-album-with-st-james-record-producer

Ollie paid for the sessions himself, spreading the work across the past year. He says the process changed how he thinks about music. ‘You walk in with a song and you’re confident about it, but I quickly learnt that studio tools are just an interpretation of reality,’ Ollie said. He now hears music differently. ‘All these little sound effects are driving the song forward.’

Rather than stick to old material, Ollie kept writing right up to each session. Most of the album is made up of those spontaneous creations. ‘There’s a continuity that I didn’t intend and didn’t know was there,’ he said.

His writing is instinctive and unplanned. ‘I sit down and start tinkering. Usually melody and music come together, and I hit record on my phone… there’ll be a sentence or two, and then I just piece those bits together.’ The result, he says, often surprises even him.

Ollie’s personal lyrics stand out. In “A Knot I Can’t Undo”, he compares emotional frustration to a tangled shoelace. ‘That phrase defined everything else,’ Ollie said. Another track, jokingly titled “Baked Beans,” was written the night before a studio session and named on the spot.

He’s hosted a few live gigs in the Nun’s Passage bar beneath the café but says he’s not ready for the Shaftesbury Fringe just yet. He hopes to return to the stage in 2026 with a new confidence and catalogue of songs.

His music is available under the name Ollie Robert Lisney on Spotify and streaming platforms.

13/02/2025

Very excited to announce the Tickets are now for sale for our Folk festival on May 24th , a sprinkling of blues and Americana this year! Also the duo .fian will be joining us . Tickets in bio