In their own words….

Cuckoo Savante have been hailed as “ones to watch’ in the Sunday Times Hot list, described as “Tom Waits making out with Nick Cave on Nina Simones piano” by GCN, and seen their debut album, “Lennonstown Lies” share the itunes blues chart top ten with the likes of Imelda May and Seasick Steve for ten weeks straight.Not bad for a band of misfits from the west of Ireland.
Building their songs around the vocal stylings of Jaime Nanci and the classical fingering of keys by Organ Morgan Cooke, Cuckoo Savante have played sold out shows in Whelans, Dublin, The Roisin Dubh, Galway and The Blackbox, Belfast, even making an appearance alongside their musical mama Mary Coughlan at the Body and Soul arena at the Electric Picnic, and provided warm up for acts including Jerry Fish and the Mudbug club, The Fun Lovin’ criminals, And Imelda May to name but a few.
Their self penned track, “The House of Ill Repute”, described by the Guardian Newspaper, as “The best song Brecht and Weil never wrote”, was chosen as the title track for the latest album by Ms. Coughlan, While there song “I C U Leopard” was used in a chapter of the award winning docudrama “Identities”.
Cuckoo Savante have toured extensively around Ireland and the U.K, and taken their brand of “Loungepunk” stateside for shows in both New york and Chicago, where they have an ever growing legion of fans.

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