Aussie Men. Singing songs. Some of them funny... everyone’s talking about The Spooky Men’s Chorale
Aussie Men. Singing songs. Some of them are funny...
Everyone’s talking about The Spooky Men’s Chorale.
Thunderous as a herd of wildebeest, sly as a wagonload of Spike Milligans and sonorous as a cloister of monks, making their Basingstoke debut later this month are The Spooky Men’s Chorale, a vast, rumbling, steam-powered and black-clad behemoth, capable of rendering audiences moist-eyed with mute appreciation or haplessly gurgling with merriment.
Since they emerged blithering and blinking from the Blue Mountains of New South Wales in 2001 armed with no more than their voices, a nice line in deadpan and an ill-matched set of hats, they have been gleefully disturbing audiences everywhere since.
With a judicious combination of Georgian table songs, pindrop beautiful ballads, highly inappropriate covers and a swag of original songs which seek to both celebrate the ‘boof’ and mock it, their CV includes nine tours of the UK, six CDs, sell-out shows and festival appearances too numerous to mention.
The Spooky Men’s Chorale play The Haymarket, Basingstoke on Saturday, June 29 and the Olivier Hall, Oxford on Sunday 30.
