The Spooky Men’s Chorale is set to haunt Sydney’s Seymour Centre this month but in the nicest possible way: with a mini suite of concerts to celebrate its 18th year.

The Spookies are taking a good hard look at themselves in the (very wide) mirror and it’s a little hard to tell whether they like what they see. After all, it’s been 18 years of being the thinking person’s mancrumpet – musically speaking – and part of the skill-set is inscrutability. Or is it blithering incomprehensibility? So, yes, the hats are there, the sphinx-like vastness, the facial crevices, the beard topiary… But is that crumbling decrepitude they are revealing or a magnificent descent into the vast bittersweetness of knowing this life for what it is?

These questions are more than appropriate, because the Spooky Men have just recorded their seventh album, Welcome to the Second Half which will nearly be ready for this performance.

It’s a collection which explores yet more corners of the great spooky room, including baggage carousels at the airport, the fine art of building pyramids, and – more poignantly – what it’s like to be closer to the end than to the start.

Whether they will stop before they are done, or whether they are done before they stop, the musical exploration of all this unknowingness will be, as always, a very great pleasure.

Sit back and enjoy the ride!

Their new album Welcome to the Second Half (2019) explores some deeper things but also deliver a good deal of silliness – which can never be fully eradicated. “You may find the beauty and thoughtfulness balanced out by the fact it’s being sung by a bunch of idiots. Nice idiots.”

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