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 Fine Purveyors of Filthy Swing!

Top Shelf Jazz - Direct from Lucifer’s drinks cabinet, a band whose original tunes are so distinctive and licentious that they spawned their own delectable style: ‘Filthy Swing’. Devout fans know the ‘Jazz Age’ never finished and that Gatsby lives on! Born in the dark cabaret dens of Europe, the inimitable style and rakish banter of Top Shelf Jazz make them a most notorious and revered band. You will be driven to drink and dance with wild abandon. So lock up your morals, break open the liquor and leave your troubles at the door!

‘Impeccable vulgarity & sartorial elegance’

With their “Fast & Louche” album already out (gaining a notable fan, Kid Creole, in the process!) and the “Gentlemen in Squalor” E.P. soon to be released, you may have joined them in making history as the first band to have performed on all three stages in the Royal Albert Hall. But you can’t be everywhere at once! Perhaps you have seen the band in the Park Lane and Bloomsbury Ball Rooms, Le Quecumbar, the Linz Street Festival, Café de Paris, The Blitz Party, Oxford Jazz Festival, the Black Cotton Club, Prohibition, The Big Chill, Glastonbury Festival, The Micca Club in Rome, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, most M4 services, or rowdy provincial music halls.

‘Available for funerals, bar brawls and children’s parties’.

Inciting bedlam across Britain & Europe with their exquisitely crafted music and anarchic stage presence, Arthur Foxaque and his band take no prisoners - silly hats, ‘liberal’ attitudes and songs of the high life in low places – the authors and the last word in ‘Filthy Swing’.

Welcome to the gilded gutter of Top Shelf Jazz!

“Brewed in Wales and smuggled over the border to London – impeccably rude!” - The Miniature Music Press
“Never mind your punk rock… your happy hardcore handbag house: THIS IS MUSIC!” - Paul Ross, BBC

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