Roll up, Roll up, Roll Up! Everybody's invited to our first London show in over nineteen months!16th October 2021 - Green Note - Camden, London
We've had word from the Green Note that future shows in the upstairs venue, including ours, will have reduced capacity to allow everybody to have enough space to feel comfortable and enjoy the music. They have also installed brand new virus killing UVC aircon, these guys are really working all their magic to make shows possible again!
That means that tickets are limited and only available in advance, there will be no tickets available on the door. Don't miss out, come down and shake your rattlin' bones to the voodoo sounds...
Get your tickets here...
https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/jo-carley-and-the-old-green-note-tickets/10342925
"Jo Carley & The Old Dry Skulls were a joy to behold. Rooted firmly in a bygone era when Voodoo and Black Magic were rife, the audience were all spellbound by the performance and its originality" Adrian Blacklee - Blues Matters Magazine
"... a wonderfully enchanting show where magical songs were scattered." - thenextgig.nl
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, calypso, old-timey country, and the Blues. This trio play a unique hybrid of early 20th Century music infused with dark Cabaret.
Voodoo has found its way onto the British shores and Jo Carley is the voodoo queen sent to predict hell in a way to entertain and amaze you. This demonic music-hall mistress tells tales of terror in old-timey fashion. She is backed by her song-writing partner and husband Tim Carley, a man of considerable size who plays “syncopated rhythms to shake your soul” on a beaten up archtop guitar, kick drum and rattlin’ shoe, with friend and fellow fiend James Le Huray providing the final ingredients of the spell, in the shape of double bass and banjo.
‘Voodoo Bones & Vaudeville Blues’ (the bands third album) was recorded during lockdown in the bands tiny shack of a house on the East Coast of England. When the pandemic hit, they threw out the couch and the TV, turning their living room into a recording studio, laying down twelve new songs using only old school techniques and a few good microphones. There they waited out the Lockdown until they could mix and master the recordings to ¼ mono tape with Ed Deegan at Gizzard Recordings in London. This analogue and primitive way of recording totally captures the bands unique sound and the result is the bands most retro and authentic sounding record to date. Rooted firmly in a bygone era when Voodoo and Black Magic were rife, it has all the vibe, sounds and character of the old Blues, Old-timey Country, Skiffle, Calypso and Rock n Roll records that inspired them to make this album.
Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls combine the voodoo sounds of the blues with old timey vaudeville cabaret. Music that makes people wanna come down and shake their bones!
Event Venue
Green Note, 106 Parkway, London, United Kingdom
Tickets
GBP 11.00