Since I only tipped you off on the Europe Tour of Europe when it was too late to catch them in the UK here’s some compensation for you: Electric Six, that swaggering love-stick of a band, balanced finely between The Eagles of Death Metal and The Scissor Sisters, seasoned with a pinch of TurboNegro, are doing a UK tour – dates here:

electric six tour dates

They’ve produced two of the most gloriously weird videos I’ve seen in the last decade, and an animated version of one of their songs drew me into a few wasted hours watching mind-pickling oddness on http://rathergood.com – if you’ve got some time to kill, look up Bill Oddie and Pavarotti on there.