Belshazzar's Feast (UK)
Musical Excellence and Rapid-fire Humour - Crosses all Musical Boundaries!

Available: June 2008 for Food of Love/Love of Food Tour
and also 17th November - 21st December 2008,
4th March - 5th April 2009 and December 2009
and for Spring and Summer Festivals throughout 2009

Live demo soundclips: Boda Waltz (be sure to listen carefully to the very end); Back and Sides; Tommy Jenkins; Gathering Peascods; Hashbaz

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Are they classical? Are they folk? Are they a category not even dreamed of yet by the reviewers? The answer to all three question is undoubtedly YES - and they're a lot more besides. Paul Sartin (Bellowhead, Faustus) on voice, fiddle and oboe plus Paul Hutchinson (Hoover the Dog) on voice and accordion have a perfect partnership. You can listen to their music - note perfect and subtly nuanced - but it's not going to tell you the half of what you'll experience in concert because there are some things that you just can't bottle. The humour in a look, a groan, a frantic flailing at a keyboard as the pace hots up and the partnership disintegrates into combat of an entirely musical kind. And still it's note perfect... until it's not... and that's where the superb dexterity of these two amazing musicians really comes into its own. A line of bum notes, perfectly timed between the two of them suddenly turns over the audience's perception and brings forth howls of laughter. And was that really a measure of Hark the Herald Angels in the middle of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik? The musical jokes whistle past your ears with lightning speed. Catch them if you can.

Yet underneath it all you have superb musicianship that would grace any salon, arts centre or festival stage... if only they could keep that wicked sense of humour in check.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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