Roll up! Roll up! Welcome to The Filthy Spectacula.
UK based band playing a carnival of gypsy punk, dark cabaret, goth, and steampunk with a touch of ska and pirate shanties, mix with some dark, add more dark and you are almost there.
The Filthy Spectacula offers a high octane, fun night out, with an interactive experience of sing along, dance along, and drink along music. Are you curious, seeking adventure and thrill? Come and see for yourself...
New Music video
Here it is - the official music video to The Dirty Dog from our new album. Stick it in your eyes, stick it in your ears, stick it inside your darkest fears.
'THE HOWL OF THE UNDERCLASSES' is available on CD & download.
Who Drinks with Me?
Fancy taking us home with you? Check out our shop.
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Reviews
"Brilliant, one of a kind goth folk stories by this exceptional steampunk band..
we celebrate bands that try/ are nothing but different than the rest and have that original touch you don't see/hear anywhere else! Well done The Filthy Spectacula !! 😀👍👍"
- Vivid Attractions Bookings
"9/10...Captain Jack Sparrow only with a little more drunkenness and insanity, and there is a distinct feeling of Oliver Twist and Sweeney Todd about this album. Poverty turned into poetry."
- Full Blast Music Reviews
https://www.fullblastmusic.reviews/2019/08/the-filthy-spectacula.html
"The Filthy Spectacula‘s own brand of snakeoil is all wrapped in a manic romany punk soundtrack...something that will inevitably fuel a manic crowd as it possesses the kind of joyous theatrical feel that makes you want to experience them live, preferably whilst clutching, and possibly spilling, a drink as the dance goes on around you."
- AJ Phink review on The Punk Site
"The Howl Of The Underclasses is not all what I was expecting and I was very pleasantly surprised and they are now at the top of my list of bands to catch live."
- album review by London Celtic Punks
"The Filthy Spectacula, a pirate-meets-steampunk themed folk band, were playing to a pretty large audience all things considered... The five-piece, which consisted of an accordion player and a violinist alongside guitar, bass and drums, were doing a fine job of getting the party started and encouraging folk to dance. Visually the band were definitely a spectacle...but still good fun."
- Review on Colin's Punk Rock World
"I'm hallucinogenically drunk after listening to that!"
- Adam Walton live on BBC Radio Wales after playing our song The Dirty Dog
Upcoming Shows
Aug 8 2020
Abingdon Rugby Club, Abingdon
Oddballs Rally 2020 @ Abingdon Rugby Club, Abingdon
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Aug 15 2020
The Ropemakers, Bridport
The Ropemakers Spectacula @ The Ropemakers, Bridport
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Oct 18 2020
Something dark, somewhere north
Something dark, somewhere north
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Dec 31 2020
Y Llew Coch (The Red Lion Hotel), Machynlleth
The No Date Festival (date TBC) @ Y Llew Coch (The Red Lion Hotel), Machynlleth
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Apr 3 2021
The Black Swan, North Walsham
Sadfest 2020 @ The Black Swan, North Walsham
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Who Are We?
The story of The Filthy Spectacula began on a dark and stormy night in late 2014. A group of vagabond strangers met up in a rehearsal studio for the first time to swap stories, drink absinthe and clang out something resembling music. They were on to something and took to travelling around and making new stories together. Some got left at various points along the way, but other riff-raff were eagerly waiting in the shadows to join this travelling circus.
Together this crew has exhorted a club full of maniacs in bondage gear to Cossack dance; they have thrilled and terrified Victorian music halls filled with Steampunks; they have had cheese thrown at them in the West Country and been asked by Ed Milliband to "turn it down please" and yet nothing can slow down this marauding crew of lyrical lunatics.
With their debut full length album released in 2016 they followed up with recordings for the second full length album in early 2019 and continue to assault the UK with their absinthe soaked antics.
The Filthy Spectacula are: Mr E (guitar, vocals and abuse), The Blacksmith (accordion and scowling), Shady H (bass, backing vocals and alchemy), Mis-Tea (violin, backing vocals and acrobatics) and a new barrel-banger still to be revealed.
Meet Mr. E - if you dare
Meet Mis-Tea - interdimensional woman of mystery
The big bang(er) is in transition
Meet Shady H - master of deep alchemy
Meet The Blacksmith - the strong silent type
“Who drinks with me?”
— The Dirty Dog
Buy Our Stuff!
£12.00
The second full-length album from The Filthy Spectacula. Thirteen more songs of death, debauchery and drinking that are sure get you dancing.
Shipping - inside the UK is included in the price, outside the UK is £2.00.
£10.00
The first full-length album from The Filthy Spectacula. Thirteen songs of death, debauchery and desperately bad sex.
Shipping - inside the UK is free, outside the UK is £2.00
£12.00
What better way to make friends than by asking people to drink with you? And here's a 100% cotton shirt that does the dirty work for you...
Please select size.
(Beard not included)
£20.00
"The Howl of the Underclasses" CD & download and "Who Drinks With Me" t-shirt together.
100% cotton shirt. Please select size.
Please note that we are an independent band and while we will do our best to get your Filthy goods to you ASAP, please allow a few days for your order to be processed.
The balloon will take you back home