Holy Moly & The Crackers

Please Please You presents Holy Moly & The Crackers Holy Moly & The Crackers are a seven-piece ‘gypsy folk n roll’ band from the UK. They released their debut album ‘First Avenue’ in October 2012 and an EP ‘Lilly’ a year later – described as “a re-imagining of three traditional folk/blues songs that evokes eras of whiskey and guns on modern punk folk steroids”. Their newest single ‘A Punk Called Peter’ (2015) is “a sort of New Orleans funeral march mixed with some fine and highly danceable reggae”.

Tracks from the album and EP have been played by Amazing Radio, BBC Introducing and leading music critic Mike Harding. They are making an impact on both the national and international tour circuit; they have played well over 200 shows throughout the UK, including sell out concerts in London, the Midlands, Yorkshire, Newcastle and Edinburgh.

In October 2013 the band toured internationally in Europe, and they just recently returned from a tour in France in July 2015. The band has performed at major festivals across the country, including shows at Hop Farm Festival, Secret Garden Party, Boomtown and Cornbury Festival, where they opened for Jools Holland.

Holy Moly and the Crackers are influenced by an eclectic range of styles and artists - the honest grit and gravel of Woody Guthrie, the gypsy bone-cage burlesque of Gogol Bordello: punk, ska, reggae, folk, blues, honky-tonk, Balkan etc. As such they play a unique mash-up of folk/blues, waltz tempos and hoe-downs and french zazou in outlandish carnival style. It is loud, funky and fun. “They are a bunch of wild gypsy troubadours with more than a touch of magic about them. Their Puckish band leader Conrad Bird is a classic showman who gets the crowd eating out of his hand

... Every song is a powerhouse of storytelling and compelling musical arrangement. If they don’t go very, very far then the world is both deaf and stupid” Diva Publications

“Completely at home in a smoke filled juke joint in New Orleans” Narc

“Stylistically dazzling … the group really does stand out from the crowd” Bright Young Folk