 "Here's mongrel music - my favourite kind- from Martini and his merry misfits. Playful, angry and perverse. Here's Jesus sleeping with boys." Paul Kelly ''The most original band of this or any era, while they could be from anytime in history one thing is certain. They are not from this dimension. 5 stars" Triple J Radio Martin Martini and The Bone Palace Orchestra join Queenscliff Music Festival with their fusion of grooves of jazz, blues, psychobilly and matchless show-tunes; with good old fashioned rock'n'roll. The band hit the lineup after a sell-out season in London 2008 as well as sell-out Album Launch tour across Australia. Martin Martini sounds as though Elvis and Roy Orbison were thrown into the jungle and spent 40 years sweating, kicking and devolving. The music forces you to really listen rather than just let you take it in passively like a passenger. When asked whether his brash, passionate, and at times obnoxious style might offend people, and whether this bothers him, he simply smiles his big serial-killer smile and says: 'we're all just monkeys…' |