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Moscow Drug Club
Combining their original material with songs by the likes of Jaques Brel, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen & Eartha Kitt, and selling out venues for over a decade, Moscow Drug Club deliver an intoxicating and intimate musical experience you won’t soon forget!
Friday 2nd October 2026 | 7:30pm
@ The Barrel House Ballroom
Tickets:
£18 (+fee) - General admission
£20 (+fee) - Feeling generous (help us out and pay musicians more)
£15 (+fee) - Lightly lower priced (help you out - for those who need it)

This is a partly seated / partly standing gig. Seating available on a first arrival basis. **Priority given to those who need seats**

MOSCOW DRUG CLUB

Transcendent Troubadours of World Jazz & Folk

“Absolute Knock Out Performance!”

“Evocative, Beautiful & Inspiring!”

“Best Music Entertainment We’ve Ever Seen!”

A heady and waggish mix of Jazz, French Musette, Latin Grooves and New Orleans Swing.

Combining their original material with songs by the likes of Jaques Brel, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen & Eartha Kitt, and selling out venues for over a decade, Moscow Drug Club deliver an intoxicating and intimate musical experience you won’t soon forget!

Moscow Drug Club have played some great venues and festivals of note including: WOMAD, National Theatre London, International Gypsy Guitar Festival, Trowbridge Pump Festival, Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, Purbeck Folk Festival, AberJazz Festival,, Marlborough Jazz Festival, Royal Albert Hall, Harbourside Festival, Dartmouth Festival, Larmer Tree Festival, Sundial Theatre, St George’s Music Hall, Bristol Beacon, Birmingham Jazz Festival, Bristol Jazz Festival, Twinwood Festival, & Beehive Theatre, Dart Music Festival, Canterbury Festival…

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“Nothing but praise for your performance, absolutely knock out, great musicianship and very entertaining!!”

“Moscow Drug Club played a beautiful set consisting of musical talent beyond technology reminding us all of where music came from and what it is about.”

“The best music entertainment we have ever had!”

“The music, songs and voice were amazingly evocative, beautiful and inspiring, such originality just like the band’s name.”

 

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