YORK concert promoters Please Please You will present North Easterners Holy Moly & The Crackers at The Crescent on Wednesday and She Drew The Gun at the Fulford Arms two nights later, both at 7.30pm.

Holy Moly & The Crackers are a seven-piece gypsy folk'n'roll band who released their debut album, First Avenue, in October 2012 and the Lilly EP a year later. The last single, 2015's A Punk Called Peter, was a "sort of New Orleans funeral march mixed with some fine and highly danceable reggae”.

Holy Moly are making an impact on both the national and international tour circuit, having played well over 200 shows throughout Britain, including sell-out gigs in London, the Midlands, Yorkshire, Newcastle and Edinburgh, backed up by festival appearances at Hop Farm Festival, Secret Garden Party, Boomtown and Cornbury Festival, where they opened for Jools Holland.

Led by Conrad Bird, Holy Moly & The Crackers are influenced by the honest grit and gravel of Woody Guthrie and the gypsy bone-cage burlesque of Gogol Bordello, as well as punk, ska, reggae, folk, blues, honky-tonk and Balkan music. As such,they play a mash-up of folk/blues, waltz tempos and hoe-downs and French zazou in outlandish carnival style.

Please Please You promoter Joe Coates has booked them into the Brudenell Social Club Games Room in Leeds on Tuesday night too for another 7.30pm concert.

Friday's gig will find Mersey psych-pop band She Drew The Gun in York to showcase this month's debut album, Memories of the Future, a record that is the result of songwriter Louisa Roach meeting with James Skelly of The Coral in 2015.

Introduced by a friend who heard Roach doing a BBC introducing live session at Maida Vale, Skelly liked what he heard and initial work on an EP became an album. Going into the studio with the bare bones of the songs – in essence, poetic autobiographical lyrics set to haunting riffs and melodies – they built up the tracks, developing an electronic element into Roach’s sound.

The result is a dark but dreamlike collection of stories from Roach’s life and imagination, caught in a bubble of psych-tinged pop, as she writes of delicate and dysfunctional relationships, unrequited love and laments for love lost, while also veering off into science-fiction protest songs, or more subterranean subjects such as homelessness, drugs and alcohol.

She Drew The Gun began as a solo vehicle for Roach, whose underground roots lie in performing at open-mic events and acoustic gigs, but she now tours with Sian Monaghan on drums, Jack Turner on guitar and latest addition Jenni Kickhefer. In York, they will be supported by Conor Hirons and Black Boat.

Tickets for these York and Leeds gigs can be booked at seetickets.com