Four piece from Berlin playing a fast and furious mix of eastern and western pop hits with accordion, accoustic bass guitar, two accoustic guitars and four voices. Best described as "cabaret" -  there´s plenty of comedy and costumes - but the emphasis is on the music.  The Beez don´t cover songs in the conventional sense - they rearrange them, much in the same way as Al Capone might have rearranged the face of a hapless business associate. From pop to punk, from klezmer to classic, they all get that Beez facelift, and, with the addition of soaring four-part harmonies, a new lease of life.

Chainsaw-folk vigilantes The Crooked Fiddle Band deliver a no-holds-barred mash-up of gypsy passion, bluegrass swampstompers and near metal mayhem. The Sydney based group's debut EP was selected as the feature album on Radio National's The Daily Planet and has garnered regular airplay on Triple J, community radio worldwide and US college radio. World music mag Global Rhythm has recently featured the band on their Aug-Sept 2008 cover cd.

The group's primarily instrumental tunes have led their recordings to be used across various soundtrack projects - films at global film festivals, a documentary on artistic roller-skating, and perhaps the ultimate in unexpected applications: accompanying the Australian Synchronised Swimming Duet team in their Olympic qualifying event in Switzerland.

The Crooked Fiddle Band have recently completed their Second EP, Rise, which solidifies the band's style - Bulgarian melodies sung with Native American lyrics; Romanian tunes thrashed to their modern limits, with the rhythm section honing their blast beats and trademark acoustic riffery. New directions are explored via a rip-roaring bluegrass workout and a tango that pans back to a dancefloor melodrama. "We mutate world music to create our own sound" says guitarist Gordon Wallace "it's like a pig with sharks teeth, fat with plenty of bite."

Gigging extensively at festivals, theatres, pubs and underground warehouse parties since the band's inception in 2006, The Crooked Fiddle Band will stay on the road, touring Rise nationally in Feb and March 2009.