A highlight of their 2009 tour was at Shrewsbury Folk Festival when they joined forces with award-winning English roots act Show of Hands for “a folk song from Yorkshire“
(Human League’s Don’t You Want Me!) An unlikely pairing that brought the house down whilst in a Sidmouth pub they tangled vocal chords with hot property Cornish shanty choir Fisherman’s Friends.
With a sound variously described as “sexy, powerful., impossibly gentle and sad but unmistakably male” and “ as warm as toast and as grainy as teak” , their repertoire ranges from Georgian drinking songs to whisper perfect ballads and a string of improbable original hits like Don’t Stand Between a Man and his Tool and Stop Scratching It… They also offer hilarious, elephantine retreatments of classics like Earth, Wind & Fire’s Boogie Wonderland and the funniest version of Abba’s Dancing Queen you are likely to witness.
All this and more is promised when they pitch up on UK shores in July brandishing their new single BIG as well as the enigmatically titled EP/ DVD Deep , which features footage from their 2009 UK tour. Opening on July 15 in Birmingham, they will also stage one of their special “Sing Like a Bloke” workshops in the city the next night.
SUPPORT ACTS
Support at many of the gigs comes from award-winning Australian singer songwriter Kate Rowe (above), named Songwriter of the Year in the 2010 Australian Songwriters Association Awards.
www.katerowe.com
Liverpool’s 40-strong Sense of Sound – who competed in BBC-tv’s talent show Last Choir Standing and were the first contemporary choir to reach the final of BBC Radio 3’s Choir of the Year contest, will support the Spookies at the August 25 show at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall while Surrey’s Esher-based community choir Earthly Voices are the support act for the Guildford performance on July 17.
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