Released on = July 3, 2007, 3:59 am

Press Release Author = BeyondPR

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = The Spooky Men Chorale, based in the Blue Mountains region
of New South Wales, will be performing in Sheffield for the first time in July.

Press Release Body = The Spooky Men Chorale, based in the Blue Mountains region of
New South Wales, will be performing in Sheffield for the first time in July. Having
already established themselves on their home turf with a debut CD, on the music
festival circuit and plenty of radio airtime, 14 members of the all-male troupe will
be embarking on their second UK tour in July.

Their eclectic repertoire, exquisite harmonies and polished performances have a
universal appeal. It is the combination of humour, maudlin pathos and plain
goofiness in their singing that puts them in a class of their own. Sheffield
audiences can catch them in action at Sheffield Library Theatre, Surrey Street (off
Tudor Square) at 9.00 pm (Doors 8.15 - bar available) on Wednesday 18 July. Tickets
for the main event cost £10 / £5 concessions. Tickets are available from Jack's
Records on 0114 276 7093 or on the door.

The Spooky Men will also be conducting an all-comers singing workshop (no experience
needed) at Victoria Hall (Methodist Mission), Tudor Square, from 7.00pm - 8.00pm on
the same day, for a maximum of 75 people. This involves an hour of intensive tuition
and fun, the ticket price is £4 / £2 on the door only. ( Please call 0114 266 6555
to book workshop places.)

Last year's gruelling tour of the UK saw the Spooky Men do 28 performances in 23
days, from packed village halls to a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe. They were warmly received by capacity crowds on main stages at large Folk
festivals, to a standing-room-only gig at London Music Hall. The upcoming UK tour
includes five Folk festivals and concerts in London, Bristol, Brighton, Cambridge
and Sheffield. They will also perform in a dozen smaller towns and villages where
local choirs will host the event. This year the Spooky Men will also perform in
Dublin on the grounds of the Guinness family seat Farmleigh.

Their musical ethos can best be described as a celebration of the 'pointless
grandeur of the male condition'. The repertoire is grounded in Georgian male vocal
traditions and spiced with director Stephen Taberner's quirky original songs and
arrangements of appropriate classics. Popular original works include the Spooky
Theme Song and Don't Stand Between a Man and his Tool. (See www.spookymen.com.au)

The Spooky Men are as much a visual feast as a musical one. The studied deadpan
which underlies the most hilarious of their songs gives way at times to maudlin
pathos and despair, bristling indignation, cowboy exuberance and mock Slavic-Russian
inscrutability as the choir explores the minutiae of the male experience.



Web Site = http://www.spookymen.com.au

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