Their first Australian tour saw this 9 piece band sell every show out, with audiences screaming for more. They are back in the country to launch their new album, “La Belle Etoile” (Cartell/Inertia) and pass their infectious energy to the audiences.
A true musical menagerie, 9-piece big band Babylon Circus, have notched up over 900 concerts in 30 countries and built up a worldwide following with their electric live shows and addictive albums.
Their music is laced with ska, gypsy, rock, vaudevillian antics, dancehall & reggae. One hint in advance, if you want to see one of the most explosive live bands ever to hit Australian shores, make sure to book in advance. Tickets will be scarce.
As befits a band with their name, their exploits include police chases, beatings and imprisonment in Irish jails, bathtub vodka, double concussions and hospitalisation in Russia and Muslim carnival processions in Syria. They have to be seen to be understood.
In March they will be bringing the party to Australia at the main stage of Womadelaide & Womad NZ as well as venues across the country.
It started in Lyon, France, during 1995, when singers David Baruchel and Manu Nectoux devised a racy sound mainly fuelled on punk energy and hot with defiant social anthems sung in French and English – sometimes both in the same song. The duo worked with seven partners in crime who are at least as mad about music as they are: Georges on guitar, Olive on keyboards, Dadé on drums, Basile on bass, Rimbaud on accordion and saxophone, Laurent on trumpet and Clément on trombone.
“Plays like the amped up soundtrack to a Parisian merry-go-round from the future”Global Rhythms NY “A tremendously entertaining album” BILLBOARD
“Mix Django Reihardt with Jacques Brel, ad a little Gogol Bordello and you’ll come close to what Babylon Circus sounds like” (Detroit News, USA)
