Announcing Cirque de Crème Anglaise 4
The circus is coming to town again with another vaudevillean attempt to shoehorn the more theatrical end of guitar music together with much tomfoolery and tongue-in-cheekery, courtesy of your hosts The Furbelows. Custard for the soul!
Headlining this time are DAVID CRONENBERG'S WIFE, setting deadpan tales of booze, sexual jealousy, runaway prams and lovelorn morgue workers to a brooding voodoo swamp blues groove. I'm delighted to announce that they will be launching their single "The Fight Song" this very night.
"If Nick Cave just isn’t unpleasant enough for you these days, this will be a record to treasure." —Time Out
"Where genius meets idiocy" —Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2
"Tom Mayne has really excelled himself with the new album... noir ambience all the way through." —Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music
Also performing is ANTONY ELVIN, a lewd troubadour and shrewd ruminator who sings of buttery scones, sexual misadventure and what he sums up as ‘a bit of a cavort through the wreckage of the contemporary moment’. He has been spotted disporting on stage with The Might Boosh. A very talented guitar player too. When asked to appear, he replied, "I would love to cavort with you types. Let it be madly gay!"
Regularly insisting they’ve flown over from Japan specially for one gig, wilfully surreal and coquettish trio NO CARS are indeed fronted by two Japanese girls aided by a British bloke on drums (whom they claim is trying to become a Japanese girl through the power of prayer). They sing mostly about their favourite foods and illustrate their songs with manga cartoons. Last time I saw them they exhorted the audience: "Hey! No rubbish clapping!"
"A bubblegum band, and the audience is chewing"—Artrocker
Of course you'll also have to listen to THE FURBELOWS themselves (to get an idea what that experience is like, click through to our Facebook page and cock your ear at the ten tracks there), a band who have just been shortlisted for the Exposure Music Awards.
"As much fun as a Playboy Playmate and twice as pleasant to listen to" —A New Band A Day
"Epic and audacious" —Remotegoat
"I love that track! That's going to be playlisted a million, million, million, trillion times on this show. And Clayton is the best-dressed man in the whole of the UK underground scene." Jordan Thomas, playing 'Pleasure Machine' on The Friday Forum, VS Re:Charged
As if that there weren't quite enough I am proud to announce a DJ set from none other than "MC" FRUITY HATFIELD-PEVEREL, spinning, I don't doubt, everything from 80s New Wave to obscure ragtime 78s, assuming we can work out how to amplify his wind-up gramophone.
The Cross Kings is a great venue five minutes from King's Cross station. The staff are friendly, there's a good choice of ales and they also do very good food.
It's £5 on the door, and for this you get a limited edition FREE BADGE, a bar till 2am and FREE CUSTARD CREAMS!
