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The Zen Hussies
Dutifully administering original swing, stomp and boogie at clubs, pubs, festivals and speakeasys since 2001, when lithe frontman, Poetic Licensee and chancer Jonah Flatfoot Esquire met drummer and dog handler Dr Bunko Greyhounds on the 9.15 from Limpley Stoke to Bath one wet wednesday in february. Within but a few short months, the band that we now know and love had succeeded in persuading various other musicians into playing aside them on trumpets, saxophones, double basses and trombone to scoop their first gigs as resident roof-raisers at the now sadly defunct Hat & Feather Inn, a legendary hostelry in Bath, that when the band make their millions, they have vowed to restore to its former ‘glory’. Several years, a thousand gigs, three albums, nine suspended sentences and twelve replacement livers on, and the band are renowned for their ’stamina sapping, effervescent live performances’.
The horn heavy Hussies will have even the most troubled of feet flailing in the aisles and singing along to their uniquely catchy brand of song and dance. Sigh in wonder, as they straddle the jazz meridian and steer their syncopated collossus bareback through your grandads’ shed. Why not then adorn your most dandy attire, fasten those braces, and cover your chest in vapour-rub for a memorable evening with The West Countrys’ Most Exclusive Drinking Club… Coming soon to a dancehall / bandstand near you!
MEDIA QUOTES / REVIEWS
‘The latest loaded long player from the hussies entitled ‘Continental Adaptor’ has all the trappings of a mini wax cylinder classic. Opening with the splendid swank ridden ‘Kecker Rocker’ and sounding like somebody tearing down bunting with their teeth, this latest offering just like their live performance, is a captivating cavorting beast caked in opulent moreish magnificence.’
- Dan Heatley, Mofo 2008‘Born showmen with one eye on the absurd, The [Zen] Hussies play songs that lodge in the head like well aimed bullets, creating a sea of beaming revellers on a dancefloor bursting at the seams…’
- Venue Magazine 2005‘Film Noir & Ska collide with a distinctive blue tone to the two tone…the Hussies transported me to a more fearless era…I almost breathed down a strangers’ neck…’
- Decode Magazine 2005‘A Brylcreem sculpted anachronism, cymbals puffing and horns huffing like a runaway steam train’
- Kyrsten Grayewski 2008‘Boundary-Decimating…skanktastic combo who leave no danceflooor unshaken, imagine The Specials at their peak whilst wearing the broadest of grins’
- Buena Vista Social Club Presents 2007‘The sonic definition of happiness’
- Rachel Wild, Festival Eye 2008
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