The Eskies are purveyors of music that meanders from sea soaked waltz to Italian tarantella, from brassy funeral march-esque lament to weep-along Klezmer knees up, and from chain gang holler to rag time finger snap.
And on Friday night (October 14) you can get to grips with their playability when they arrive at Bedford Esquires.
They skip through the dark side of anything that makes you want to dance, are steeped in melodrama and usually with come with tongue firmly in cheek.
The band have brought this unique brand of folk noir/gypsy jazz/sea shanty and their all screaming, all sweating, swaggering stage spectacle to ballrooms and booze-houses the length and breadth of Europe; sullying soirées and lowering inhibitions of get-togethers and social occasions wherever they have ventured.
2016 has been their biggest and busiest year to date with the band undertaking extensive tours of Ireland, the UK, Spain, Italy and The Netherlands as well as squeezing in their first ever appearance at the hallowed Glastonbury Festival.
Their debut album After The Sherry Went Round is fresh to the retailer racks and catalogues the first four years of the band’s existence.
It is a highly charged, infectious blend of surge, swoon and surge again, with dark tales of betrayal, revenge, fear and scorn all delivered at break neck speed that’s sure to get you flailing about the place with reckless abandon.
“The album is a raucous fanfare of folk, swamp blues and unquenchable merriment, paired with brain-burrowing melodies and witty lyrics, delivered at breakneck speed,” declared one critic.
Tickets for the Esquires date can be booked through www.seetickets.com
