Artist description camp and slightly sarcastic

Music Style "Tea and biscuit operatics for the reckless"

Musical Influences janis joplin, mr. bungle, ben folds five, nico, grace slick, joyce grenfel, jane's addiction, the muppets, the goodies, beatles, black sabbath, kinks, barenaked ladies

Similar Artists violent femmes, b52s, birthday party, bonzo dog doodah band, tom waits, zappa, cake, monty python, league of gentlemen, hootie & the blowfish, divine comedy, cardiacs, danny elfman, sergio mendes

Group Members richard masters lyn hodnett dylan davies stephen long

Instruments Drums, Electric Bass, Spanish Guitar, Percussion and Vocals

Press Reviews "DEMO OF THE WEEK. DEMO OF THE MONTH. DEMO OF THE GODDAMN CENTURY. BEST DEMO I HAVE EVER HEARD - POKE [...] I put the demo on and in a minute was doing the highland fling with a somewhat perturbed cat and grinning inanely while punching the air and shouting 'YES!!! YES!!!' This is FANBLOODYTASTIC!!!!!!!Bulgarian sounding folk gothic punk weirdness, The Slits crossed with the Bonzo Dog Doo Da Band, Cardiacs crossed with everything good you have ever heard in your life. And then some more. 'Ra Ta Tatata. Ra tata ta ta! I'm not bitter, just a little TWISTED!' You cannot listen to Poke without clapping your hands in the air and jumping from side to side. Insane laughs, frantic galloping choruses, equally mad male/female vocals, flamenco guitar and fake Devonshire accents! Gypsy party music for the clinically insane. Psychedelic circus sounds for serial killers. A soundtrack to the carnival Of Debauchery. You know what you're listening to is bloody brilliant when you finally turn it off to hear your flatmate in the kitchen bellowing 'RA YA YA YA YA ROOOOO YA YA YA!' I can't see him but I'd wager money on him being dancing on the bench tops at this very moment. Well, they can't get any dirtier. And this just can't get any better. I know I say this too much for it to bear any weight but Poke are the best band I have ever heard in my life. I want an album! I want an interview!I want them on Top Of The Pops and on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine! I want to see them live and do silly dancing to them! You have never heard anything this good in your life and you never will again. This gets a silly Cyberfaery prizefor giving me faith in the British music scene and making me feel that life IS worth living, even when your chin has been taken over by alien life forms and your hair is greasy enough to cook chips in. " from http://www.cyberfaery.co.uk .................and............. "Openers Poke initially look like they've wandered a little too far down the crazy paved road to Kookville. Maybe it's the singer's white dinner jacket, or the fairy lights on the drumkit, or just the mauve feather boas. Fortunately the brash acoustic strum of songs like Cement Shoes, with its lashings of mocking grandeur and acres of vibrant melodies work as music, not just an extended joke. Their semi-acoustic drive, married to a liberal dash of Spanish guitar manages to be both thrillingly poppy and unashamedly grin-inducing as the best of the Divine Comedy. Seedy-suave front-man Richard unleashes his great bassoon of a voice, his camp poise counterpointing the front-girl's hollered vocals and frenzies of tambourine shaking. The throbbing flamenco rhythms of 'Sheffield Lies' make for as endearing an ode to their home town as Pulp's 'Sheffield Sex City', while the maddening infectious quirkpop of 'Hoover' has your jaw on the floor. The overall effect is something like Oscar Wilde being done over by Monty Python wearing a sombrero" (Andrew Kaye, Doncaster Free Press)

Location Sheffield, south yorkshire - United Kingdom

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