Fungus Licks are a Bath-based 4-piece. They have a wide ranging style, mixing covers and originals, and play anything and everything from boogie woogie, blues, 1930s jazz, klezmer and a few 1980s TV themes thrown in for good measure – listen out for a few bars of Danger Mouse!
Appearing at Market Bar – see ‘Programme’
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In a recent review, Charley Dunlap of Listomania Bath reported: The band is as completely live and interactive and non-techno as you can get. Linking their crazy patchwork of tunes is the band’s strong current of humour and intelligence, and the unique way they play (and sing).
Fungus Licks is centred around Matt Collins on piano with Matt Nolan on drums and Tom Skailes on saxes and harmonica. Pete Bradley (from Dudlow Joe) is a regularly appearing guest singer.
Matt Collins is a terrific piano player whose basic style is boogie but modifies and extends it into other areas, notably into a melange of Balkan/Eastern European folk tunes. Matt Nolan has a sound like no other drummer: slack-ish tuning, slightly behind the beat, lots of cymbals. Tom plays sax in a manner that retains that Eastern European/prewar jazz sound, yet is not a duplication. It is jazz but not jazz, and it works perfectly. His harmonica playing is blues (think Charlie Musselwhite) all the way, and it’s great. Pete is a Bath treasure and one of the most unique singers you will ever hear. He stands comfortably in the long line of male female singers like Smokey Robinson or Chet Baker, more jazzy than Smokey, more bluesy than Chet.
Read the full review at: http://www.listomaniabath.com/reviews/fungus-licks-33-thieves/
