Spaghetti Western Orchestra – Live

Spaghetti Western Orchestra – Live, Brighton Dome

In which five australian multi-instrumentalists take on the music of Ennio Morricone and adding generous helpings of bizarre instrumentation, tape loops, radio comedy sensibility and excellent sight gags, produce a splendid evening’s entertainment that might in another universe be called…. jazz.  Musically, these guys shine, the fact they also add generous helpings of innovative comic tomfoolery shouldn’t distract from that simple fact.  If they only have one joke, it’s a damn good one, the musicians perform in character as respectively, the Bank Teller, the Gold Sniffer,  the StoryTeller and the Young Feller, characters in a mythical western involved in a search for ‘Bob Robertson’, the pseudonym used by Sergio Leone  for his early american releases. It may not be Pirandello, but I’d urge catching this tour, the music is fabulous and the joke very funny – what’s not to like?