Thursday Balkan Boogie with Greshka and Zemzemeh

Swing into the fabulous "It's Still a Secret" on Montague road for a delicious cocktail, some nibbles and be blown away by bombastic beats, silly segues and phenomenal French um music. And lots of alliteration.

Have you been feeling run down? You probably have a Vitamin S deficiency. Come to a Greshka gig for a big healthy nourishing dose of Vitamin Silly. They play music from Eastern Europe, gypsy, Balkan, klezmer – and all of it made extra silly with synthesisers, cimbaloms and singalongs. Greshka play music which sounds like the contents of Spongebob Squarepants suitcase as he sets sail for Sweden. There’s snappy sârbăs, synthonic ska and Serbian-style swing. It’s incessantly sporadic, spectacularly stupid, seldom stodgy, syllabically superfluous and unceasingly exceptionally SILLY!

Zemzemeh explores a range of Persian poetry and music infused with electronic elements. From mystical music to politically charged hiphop, Zemzemeh creates a sonic kaleidoscope of Persian culture throughout time.

Siyavash Doostkhah is on Persian tanbur, synths and vocals, and Greta Kelly plays shah kaman and theremin.