The Swing Ninjas Salad Days ( Official Music Video) Brighton

Brighton s SWING NINJAS are a 9 piece New Orleans style vintage swing big band. Known on YouTube as the band behind fellow Brightonians THE SPEAKEASY THREE (When I get Low, I get High, Minnie the Moocher), their sound evolved over many years from a walkabout busking trio doing cover versions to a fuller lineup playing originals. Salad Days is taken from the bands 3rd album Do Ya Hallelujah (their first of wholly selfpenned material) and the video features both lyrics and the idiosyncratic dance stylings of a regular at the band s Mesmerist residency (alongside bands like the aforementioned Speakeasy Three and Flashmob Jazz. ) The album features assorted guests and backing singers and comes across like a mash up between Squirrel Nut Zippers, True Detective, Pokey LaFarge and Graham Green. It s a blackly humorous and distinctly British gumbo of wry songs about life, lust penitence that has been garnering welldeserved praise in the music press. OUT NOW