THE BAR • 2 HOURS •

Forging a sound of unrivalled rage and beauty, The Hard Times Orchestra will get your feet tapping and your hearts thumping.

Price: £8, Concessions £6

Forging a sound of unrivalled rage and beauty The Hard Times Orchestra will get your feet tapping and your hearts thumping with songs for the wasted and wounded.

Expect a heady mix of influences from Bessie Smith, via Cab Calloway to Tom Waits.

Jacqui Wicks (Schwa, Gudrun’s Sisters) sings, Richard Ormrod (Schwa, Panjumby, A Dread Supreme) plays lots of useful instruments, and Jonny Flockton (Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip) will sit quietly with in a corner whilst his banjo gently weeps.

"Gleefully grubby and magnificent"
Wrecking Ball Press

"Jazz Zeitgeistian Smiling Knifers"
Kate Fox, Poet

"Inimitable and Glorious"
Jim McLaughlin, Musicport

"Always a treat to have their words and music on air"
Andrew Edwards, BBC Radio Leeds