Playing ‘bourbon soaked gypsy blues bop ‘n’ stroll’, Urban Voodoo Machine are a seven to ten-piece band hailing from Dalston, East London.

In 2002 Paul-Ronney Angel had an idea. He’d lead a band. They’d dress in black and red. There would be a LOT of them. And their music would sound like a great night out in a dangerous part of town. From the get-go, The UVM fused junkyard blues and stinging rockabilly with mariachi horns, fiddles, sinister cabaret and punk rock tangos. ‘I wanted to play rock’n’roll music with a different instrumentation,’ says Angel, ‘taking inspiration from everything from delta blues, latin and gypsy music without losing the spirit and attitude of punk.’ His lyrics – part Lemmy, part Bob Dylan – made other (more acclaimed) songwriters sound totally. Damn. Boring.

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Epitomising the sound of modern British blues, John Fairhurst is at the forefront of blues and Rock & Roll in the UK.

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