Here come Hackney’s irrepressible finest The Great Malarkey, bringing you their unbreakable love buzz, where death waltz meets urban skank and anything else that takes your fancy. Alex Ware and her marauding septet scarcely allow a moment’s breathing space, other than for the occasional bottom-of-the-glass reflection. Their ethos? Get in, get out and leave a heaving mass of happy, drooling, knacke...red revellers!

Drawing influence from such culturally diverse and mob-handed ensembles as the Pogues, Mano Negra and Fanfare Ciocarlia, with a twist of Tom Waits for good measure, joining Alex in the band is drummer Joni Belaruski, Jason Nash on accordion, and Owen Evans with his banjo, trombone and guitar. A fiddle was always going to be necessary, and Aidan Banks was only too happy to oblige. Next to join the ranks was Jake Appleby: a man of few words, but he plays the bass like it owes him money; and finally, with fanfare to boot, new members Young Oscar on Trumpet and Jules on French Horn complete the dastardly lineup.