The Great Malarkey plus more tbc

New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Road, South East London
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This event ended on Tuesday 18th of February 2014
Admission
£5 advance
Venue Information
The New Cross House
New Cross Road, SE14 6AF
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
New Cross Gate 0.08 miles

Here come Hackney’s irrepressible finest The Great Malarkey, bringing you their unbreakable love buzz, where death waltz meets urban skank and anything else that takes your fancy. Alex Ware and her marauding septet scarcely allow a moment’s breathing space, other than for the occasional bottom-of-the-glass reflection. Their ethos? Get in, get out and leave a heaving mass of happy, drooling, knacke...red revellers!

Drawing influence from such culturally diverse and mob-handed ensembles as the Pogues, Mano Negra and Fanfare Ciocarlia, with a twist of Tom Waits for good measure, joining Alex in the band is drummer Joni Belaruski, Jason Nash on accordion, and Owen Evans with his banjo, trombone and guitar. A fiddle was always going to be necessary, and Aidan Banks was only too happy to oblige. Next to join the ranks was Jake Appleby: a man of few words, but he plays the bass like it owes him money; and finally, with fanfare to boot, new members Young Oscar on Trumpet and Jules on French Horn complete the dastardly lineup.

From an early barnstorming start supporting Toots & The Maytals, the Malarkey-mobile has taken them around the capital, the length and breadth of the land and overseas too. From dive-bars to festivals, both habitats seemingly their natural home, over the past couple of years they have played the London Olympics, Boomtown Fair, Bestival, and Derbyshire’s Bearded Theory festival. Not forgetting Milan or Gothenburg and a slew of Danish festivals including Skaro, Svendborg and Tønder, plus live performances on Danish TV and radio.

Winning Pure Rawk’s “Single of the Year” Award and securing an ‘Emerging Icons’ slot on Absolute Radio with their first single ‘Merry Profits’, the debut album ‘Badly Stuffed Animals’ followed in November 2012.

‘“Badly-Stuffed Animals" comes at you kick, screaming and spitting. It's an absolute firecracker of an album’. Neil King fatea-records.co.uk 2013

The Great Malarkey are very much a live band and not to be missed! The advice to you is GET INVOLVED!

‘Their front woman stole the show from every other front man or woman who performed that weekend’ efestivals.com

‘I challenge you to keep still while listening to this band’ purerawk.com

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