Celebrating 30 years on the road, having opened shows for B.B. King and Ray Charles, and toured with the Blues Brothers Band, King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys promise a rocking night of swing, jazz and blues.
Paul Jones on BBC Radio 2 called them “the hardest act to follow since the parting of The Red Sea”,
Atomic Magazine from New York wrote “To those who say that swing is a musical form best left to Americans, prepare to be proven wrong. This British combo is bullet-proof!”
The Guardian said “Behind the fun and rollicking good times lies an outfit skilled enough for the horns to come on with the bite and precision of the Basie Band”
2017 will be the year that King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys celebrate a remarkable 30 years on the road.
Since their debut at the Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival in 1987, the band have delivered nearly 6500 performances in 21 countries, played on 36 radio shows and made 73 television appearances, including several on Blue Peter, The Teletubbies, as well as the Paradise Club series where they were the house band. They also featured on Challenge Anneka, The Gadget Show and on a prime time National Lottery advertisement – not to mention accompanying John Barrowman in a rendition of I Get A Kick Out Of You on Live And Kicking.
Rough, tough and always rocking, King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys have appeared at festivals, in concert and at clubs throughout the UK and Europe – and they still play the Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival, where they have headlined for an unprecedented 14 years.
Along the way, the band have recorded 11 albums for Big Bear Records, all distributed worldwide.
King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys will embark on a 150 date tour during 2017 to celebrate the 30 year milestone.
The band line up as King Pleasure [vocals and baritone saxophone], Boysey Battrum [alto and tenor saxophones], Bullmoose K Shirley [guitars], Mighty Matt Foundling [piano], Shark Van Schtoop [bass], and Gary ‘The Enforcer’ Barber [percussion].
