Top Shelf Jazz - Direct from Lucifer’s drinks cabinet, a band sporting original tunes so convincingly written and performed that they had to create their own genre too: ‘Filthy Swing’. Most of their fans now believe the ‘Jazz Age’ never finished and that Gatsby lives on! Born in the dark cabaret halls of Central Europe, the inimitable style and rakish banter of Top Shelf Jazz make them a most notorious and revered band. You will be driven to drink and dance with wild abandon. So lock up your morals, break open the liquor and leave your troubles at the door!
With their “Fast & Louche” album already out (gaining a notable fan, Kid Creole, in the process!) and the “Gentlemen in Squalor” E.P. about to be launched, you may have seen them making history as the first band to have performed on all three stages in the Royal Albert Hall. But you can’t be everywhere at once! Perhaps, instead, you have seen the band in the Park Lane Ball Room, Le Quecumbar, Bloomsbury Ballroom, obscure parts of France, the Linz Street Festival, most London cabarets, ‘The Blitz Party’, Berlin, Oxford Jazz festival, Salvador de Bahia, swing dance clubs, ‘Prohibition’, ‘The Big Chill’, ‘Glastonbury Festival’, Rome, the ‘Rhythm Riot Weekend’, Warsaw, ‘Kendal Calling’, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, most M4 services, or rowdy provincial music halls. Available for weddings, bar brawls and children’s parties.
Inciting bedlam across Britain & Europe with their exquisitely crafted music and anarchic stage presence, Arthur Foxaque, ‘The Caustic Crooner’, and his band take no prisoners - impeccable vulgarity & sartorial elegance to silly hats, ‘liberal’ attitudes and songs of the high life in low places – the authors and the last word in ‘Filthy Swing’.
Welcome to the gilded gutter of Top Shelf Jazz!
