14
Mar 2025
7:30pm
Tickets - £24.00
With more than 6500 performances in 21 countries under their belt in their 30 years on the road, King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys are more than just the world’s greatest jump, jive and swing band – they’re an institution!
In that time
they have opened shows for B.B. King, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, Ray
Charles, and toured with the real Blues Brothers Band - the one from the movie.
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.
The band line up as King Pleasure [vocals and baritone saxophone], Boysey Battrum [alto and tenor saxophones], Bullmoose K Shirley [guitar], Mighty Matt Foundling [piano], Shark Van Schtoop [bass], and Gary ‘The Enforcer’ Barber [drums].
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”