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Jo Carley And The Old Dry Skulls
Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls combine the voodoo rhythms of 1930´s ska and the blues with old-timey vaudeville cabaret. Music that makes people wanna shake their bones!
Inspired by early horror films, early ska, old-timey country, and the Blues, the UK’s first ever Old Timey Death Skiffle band ‘Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls’ announce their new album ‘Shake Them Rattlin’ Bones’ out in May 2019. The album launch is set for Wednesday May 8th at London’s delightful East end club, What’s Cookin?
After a three week stint across Europe, The Old Dry Skulls are back in the UK and with a new album under their belts, ‘Shake Them Rattlin’ Bones’. Recorded at East London’s Space Eko Studios, it features nine tales that lure you between the cracks of reality and take you downtown to the underworld, where the hobos and down and outs are up to no good, jug bands hustle for change on poor man’s corner, zombies walk the night and the Voodoo Priestess rules all...
This trio play a unique hybrid of early 20th Century music infused with dark imagery. Dedicated to the subversive, the world of Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls is dark, animated and unusual. Seeking to amuse and draw the audience into an underworld filled with wonder, the macabre and the imagination they combine elements of Vaudeville, Skiffle, early horror films, early ska, old-timey country, and the Blues.
The driving force is Tim’s One-man-band set-up with Kick-drum, foot tambourine and guitar while Jo uses sweet melodies to tell terrible things. This is made even more bewitching as she switches from fiddle to mandolin to washboard. They are joined by James Le Huray on double bass and banjo.
Come and see them this Wednesday May 8th at What’s Cookin? The wonderful, weird and wacky merry goround world of What´s Cookin´ is currently upstairs at LEYTONSTONE EX-SERVICEMENS CLUB Harvey Road Leytonstone, London E11, Leytonstone Underground (2 min) , Leytonstone High Road BR Station (10 min)
"It ain´t no sin to jump outta your skin and dance around in your bones... Bill Monroe fused with Augustus Pablo in an inspired skull-ripping Mad Scientist synthesis. This is a CD to make you Dance till you´re dead, you have been warned!" Andrew Darlington RnR Magazine 2017.
"A spooky slab of backwoods punk, mixed with medicine show huckster and old timey roots music. JCODS make deliciously devilish sounds. Something wicked coming this way. Highly recommended" - Folkcast
"Folk Instruments deployed with maximum attitude... A fresh take on Voodoo Folk Punk... 9/10" Vive Le Rock Magazine
"That nailed it, good stuff. Left of field stomper. A wonderful fusion of trad, old timey, New Orleans Voodoo Queen and morris dancing, I think???" - Mike Harding / Mike Harding Folk Show
"The pulsating core of ‘Them Old Bones’, the debut album from Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls, takes pretty much all the preconceptions you might have and throws them out... There are dark warnings, powerful accusations, gritty observations and singular attitude... this is a musical heist that robs you of ordinary and replaces it with exceptional" - Folkwords
"London Junkyard Punk or Punk-yard London Junk?? Multi genre, non specific, absolutely great. Its brilliant!" - Punky Radio
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