Nigel Burch And The Flea-Pit Orchestra

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'A cross between the music of Ian Dury, Brecht and Weill, an Irish pub band and a 1950's skiffle group. Songs of urban-alienation with plenty of fierce spontaneous playing.' (THE GUARDIAN.) Although NIGEL BURCH started performing at the age of 10 in his first band The Blackouts his serious(?) career began writing and performing in the seventies and eighties with a number of new-wave/punk outfits such as The Outpatients and Figures of Fun. During this period they shared the bill with bands such as The Damned, Sham 69, The Members and Crass. In the mid-eighties - solo and armed only with a ukulele and a scary pair of tonsils (billed as "The Troubadour Of Urban Angst") he stormed the stages of the pub/club/cabaret scene like some demented neo-George Formby. He appeared alongside the likes of John Cooper Clarke and Patrik Fitzgerald and released a stark and uncompromising solo vinyl album called "Fascists In The Snug Bar". (Faintly amusing - The Morning Star.) He continued to perform his set of strange and unsettling songs, now occasionally accompanied by string-players and percussionists. Later he assembled around him a collection of musicians from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. In 1997, with an expanded sound that included such instruments as the violin, double bass, cello and drums this eccentric ensemble now known as NIGEL BURCH AND THE FLEA-PIT ORCHESTRA played their first performance. The banjulele bashing bard and his musical misfits play twisted skiffle an

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