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  • Old school vintage band
  • Modern songs with a twist such as Bad Romance and older material such as when the Saints Go Marching In
  • Perform as a five piece as standard and can lose the drummer to make a quartet

The guys are based in Manchester and happy to travel for events.


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  1. Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
  2. Hello - Adele
  3. Crazy in Love - Beyoncé
  4. Fight for your right to party - Beastie Boys
  5. I bet that you look good on the dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
  6. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
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    About this Act

    The Black Sheikhs were formed in 1926 by taking life-size casts of the then highly acclaimed "Royal Dachshund Infirmary Surgeons Band", who performed canine inflected versions of popular hits of the time. The casts were forgotten, lost to the mists of time until, in 1982, they were discovered by a retail historian underneath the Trafford Centre in Greater Manchester. Animated by generous applications of salves, ointments, creams and menthol snuff, they were brought to life for your pleasure and delectation.

    Open your ears and your minds to their inimitable renditions from the modern repertoire.

    "Feel the clarity of the clarinet tickle your timpanic membrane, feel the saxophone surge through your ventricle, let the powerful diction comfort your sullied soul. Watch knowingly as the world opens its arms to the strains of the Black Sheikhs."

     

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    Pop:-
    Blank Space -Taylor Swift
    Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys
    Come As You Are - Nirvana
    Hello - Adele
    Sex On Fire - Kings of Leon
    Word Up - Cameo
    Shape Of You - Ed Sheeran
    Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson
    I Bet You Look Good - The Arctic Monkeys
    Dancing Queen - Abba
    Reach For The Stars - S Club 7
    Get Lucky - Daft Punk
    Take On Me - A-ha
    Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
    Crazy Stupid Love - Cheryl Cole
    Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue
    Get The Party Started - Pink
    Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
    Happy - Pharrell Williams
    Tainted Love - Soft Cell
    Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
    Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
    Inside Out - Imelda May
    Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis
    Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
    Girls And Boys - Blur
    Let's Get It Started - The Black Eyed Peas
    Let's Go Crazy - Prince
    Crazy In Love - Beyonce
    Baggy Trousers - Madness
    Original:-
    Long Lie In
    Instrumental:-
    Cantina Band (Star Wars)
    Beer Barrel Polka (Roll out The Barrel)
    Bernie's Tune
    and of course... The Charleston
    Jazz:-
    When The Saints
    La Vie En Rose
    Dance Me To The End Of Love
    All Of Me
    Comes Love
    On The Sunny Side Of The Street
    and any other jazz song you like…..

    Lineup

    • Five piece band: guitar/vox, Tenor Sax, Clarinet, double-bass and drums
    • Four piece band: as above without the drummer

    This act's standard set times are as follows:

    • Flexible to suit

    Tags

    • 4 piece
    • 5 piece
    • acoustic
    • brass / horns
    • double bass
    • horn section
    • male vocals
    • saxophone
    • wind instruments



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