23 November 2008
Horse Wife and Sargeant Buzfuz - double bill
Outrageous slapstick originality worked up on a Bass Mirimba, Banjo and Accordian together with other musical oddments - Horsewife, (formerly Loon) formed 11 years ago and have worked tirelessly to create songs and instrumentals with a distinctive blend of influence and character. The originality of their compositions and performances has ensured their talents have been in much demand. They are currently on tour in England with Theatre Mimi in a show called 'Phileas P. Souper' which they have co-written. Then from February to April they will be touring the UK with Dodgy Clutch's 'Elephant' show, for which they also composed the music. This show will be performed in posh theatre venues, and has already run for two months in the world famous Market Theatre in Johannesburg. Work in the past has included a commission to work with Nitin Sawhney and produce an original score for Northern Sinfonia in a film music project involving talented young musicians from Northumberland. Last year also saw the band picked to play a very muddy Glastonbury from over 2000 entries in the unsigned competition. The band also regularly compose and record music for No Limits Theatre Company, Fox Films, and Metal Pig Films and were recently commissioned to write a piece for the award winning Wansbeck and Ashington Colliery band. Horsewife have performed in South Africa, Scandinavia, and extensively in the UK at venues and festivals such as the Edinburgh festival, Fuse festival Lichfield and the Wheaton Aston festival where audience reaction has been tremendous.
Sargeant Buzfuz or "Joe" is currently getting attention for his Here Come The Popes project, a series of songs cataloging the sordid 2000 year history of the papacy. He’s written 5 songs so far and reached the 15th century. He also has a collection of other songs which are usually performed with a 6 piece band also called Sergeant Buzfuz who mix ferocious rhythms and sleepy melodies with humorous and off-the-wall storytelling. Their line-up involving violins, dulcimer and mandolin is a mash-up of pop, psychedelia, Celtic folk, punk, improv and drone-rock. They are signed to the Blang label, home also to David Cronenberg’s Wife and Milk Kan.
£5 advance, £6 on the door.
From 7pm
