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Lúnasa: Jerry Fish and The Mudbug Club

€20 / What do you get when you cross Tom Waits with a Circus Showband, when you mix Jacques Brel with Mink DeVille, when you lock Dr John, Dean Martin and The Fun Lovin’ Criminals in the same room? The answer, my friends, is Jerry Fish and The Mudbug Club, the most eclectic bunch of musical chameleons ever to share a stage, all guided by the beatific gaze of chief Mudbug, Mr. Jerry Fish himself. Former leader of An Emotional Fish, he has developed into Ireland’s leading troubadour and rabble rousing entertainer. The bands sound has been described as a mix of ‘lounge lizard schmooze and mariachi passion’. Jerry Fish is without question one of the finest live acts in Ireland today.

‘The arrangements are full of lovely little touches: flourishes of Spanish guitar, bursts of swinging horns. It’s like Tom Waits in a good mood, or maybe Leonard Cohen doing Dean Martin backed by an Irish showband. There are a lot of obvious influences, but the Mudbug Club embrace them in such good spirit it is impossible not to be carried along by their enthusiasm.’ The Telegraph

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