Keywords: Acid-Breakfast-jazz / Dance-Band / Comedy-Big Band

Bluebottles merge faux-jazz nostalgia and comedy to create a parody of a much-maligned genre.

Artistic director Eric Scott proclaims, “Jazz is part of everything that is Day For Night, but that’s a relative statement. Improvisation is at the root of almost all of my own composition. I’m by no means a formalist. There are moments when I put on someone else’s definition of jazz, and frankly, that can be absolute murder to sit through...That’s what Bluebottles is about; getting out a miniature Union Jack, putting on a carnation, doing that WW1-period crossword and spreading your legs to some light buffoonery over your eggs benedict and clotted cream. You won’t be disappointed.”