King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys

With nearly 7000 performances across 27 countries under their belt in their 40 years on the road, King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys are more than just the world's greatest jump, jive and swing band - they're an institution!

In that time, they have opened shows for BB King, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, and toured with the Blues Brothers Band (the one from the movie), and they've played on 36 radio shows and made 73 television appearances.

Rough, tough and always rocking, King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys have appeared at festivals, in concert and at clubs throughout the UK and Europe as well as in the USA - and Russia. Along the way, the band have recorded 11 albums for Big Bear Records, all distributed worldwide.

The band line up as King Pleasure (vocals and baritone saxophone), Boysey Battrum (alto and tenor saxophone), Bullmoose K Shirley (guitars), Mighty Matt Foundling (piano), Shark Van Schtoop (bass) and Gary 'The Enforcer' Barber (percussion).

Dazzling musicianship, riveting stage performances and 40 years of performances have established King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys as the unequivocal Kings of Swing!

'The genuine article, in full working order, dedicated to shaking you up and swinging you into the middle of next week. They've got King Pleasure's inimitable stogies and bourbon voice, they've got a roaring band sound that comes at you like the Wabash Cannonball' - The Observer

'Superb, a stunning range of ability, smack dab in the style of Louis Jordan and Eddie Cleanhead Vinson' - Now Dig This

'Behind the fun and rollicking good times lies an outfit skilled enough for the horns to come on with the bite and precision of the Basie Band' - The Guardian

'The hardest act to follow since the parting of The Red Sea' - Paul Jones, BBC Radio 2

'To those who say that swing is a musical form best left to the Americans, prepare to be proven wrong - this British combo is bullet-proof!' - Atomic Magazine, New York