Prepare yourself for a night of furious, sweaty,
upbeat gypsy music, soaked in alcohol and infected with unrelenting baltic rhythms. Three groups of psychedelic harlequins are gracing the stage at The Musician this June, for a mardi gras of astronomic proportions, and it would be a sin to miss it!!
The Whiskey Rebellion are an eight-piece group of ragamuffins from the darkest depths
of Leicestershire, hell-pent on a warpath straight to your bleeding eardrums. Featuring a line-up of banjos, accordions, mandolins, violins and more, these hair-brained misfits perform a non-stop maelstrom of folk punk and gypsy-style dance tunes, guaranteed
to whip any audience into a frenzy of dance and decadence. Following the release of their debut album "Funeral Songs", they are returning again to the lost city of Leicester to host this evening, and put on a spectacle like no other: The Alcohocalypse!! And
they've brought some friends with them...
Buffo's Wake are a twelve-legged beast hatched in the murky backwaters of Brighton.
Armed with accordions, violins, and a bucket full of gusto they waltz, tango, and kolo their way through various influences from Eastern European, Balkan and Russian folk, to punk rock and cabaret, telling tales of debauchery, deformity, zombies, incest and
anatomy - Making the audience dance into the night in the process. On Halloween 2014, Buffo's Wake recorded their debut album "Caniphobia". Recorded in an array of bedrooms, studios, and everywhere in between, they decided not to use any synthesized instruments
on their songs, instead opting for entirely acoustic instruments, effects and atmospherics. The album was created using singing saws, wine glasses, old rusty pipes, handmade percussion, and anything else they could get their grubby little hands on. The result
is the haunting sound of an abandoned circus flowing through the album, inspiring the title Carniphobia.
These peddlars of gypsy folk will be supported by none other than The Ginhouse Gypsies,
a collaboration of gypsy-jazz, blues, hip-hop, and world folk influences, all backed up with amazing three-part female vocal harmonies. A breath of fresh air with a soulful vibe, and packed with plenty of enthralling grooves, this band have a depth and originality
which will get your heart racing!
All this and more, await you on June 8th at The Musician, for the one, and the only...
The Alcohocalypse!!!