It has been a long time coming, but we finally met up with Louis Barabbas & the Bedlam Six on a snowy winters evening in Whitworth Park, where the band proceeded to batter each other with snow balls and play us this version of ‘Thick Carpets, Old Lifts’. Hope your lung is OK Louis.
“The Bedlam Six tells stories. They tell parables of love and loss, peppered with harmonies. But these are the tales of a malignant mind; the wild early versions of fairy tales before Disney dilution; the twisted whispers in which Red Riding Hood stayed eaten and Goldilocks paid for her porridge-pilfering.
The mesh-tight group swung from spiced Cab Calloway jazz to gypsy folk and gritty blues, anchored by the vocal sparring of Louis’ Buster Poindexter gurn and Ali Cegielka’s sweet tones. If the mad and exciting musical tales didn’t wake the neighbours, the surging howls of approval by the end certainly should have got the knuckles rapping the walls.”
Whisperin and Hollerin Magazine, March 2008
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Bloody marvelloos. Brilliant band, brilliant video, scenewipe is a brillrant idea. Well done!