MOLOTOV Jukebox play Fibbers in York tomorrow as Natalia Tena's lively Londoners see out 2016 with seven intimate shows on the Just The Thrill Tour, named in honour of their latest single.

The title could apply to lead singer and accordion player Natalia's  feelings as the Game Of Thrones star returns to a city where she felt love at first sight.

"York is an incredibly beautiful city. The first time I came to York, I cycled around and it was so beautiful I nearly cried," reveals the 32-year-old London musician and actress.

"I came up there about ten years ago with Shared Experience in a play called Bronte at the Theatre Royal, where I played Cathy and Mrs Rochester and had to portray two characters' madness, so I had 17 or 18 costumes and every time I came off stage I had to change costume! It was absolutely mad."

On her return tomorrow, expect sizzling tunes from this spring's Tropical Gypsy album, plus carnival vibes and nautical attire as Natalia leads her ferociously energetic band through such Molotov favourites as Pineapple Fruit and If I Knew.

Incorporating newly found sounds collected first hand on a South American tour last year, Molotov Jukebox have added flavours of samba, fohó and cumbia to their existing Balkan influences on their April follow-up to 2014's Carnival Flower.

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"We've changed from being a gypsy-step band to saying we're a tropical gypsy band, so our music is now Balkan melodies and instrumentation but with Latin rhythms – and sometimes I'll sing in Spanish as well as English," says Natalia, who is of Spanish descent. "The main thing is that even though the music is 'dancey', the lyrics are often really dark."

Nevertheless, tomorrow's prevailing mood will be high spirited. "We're having a nautical theme on this tour, encouraging people to dress up with a dress code of sexy sirens and salty sea dogs. Take that as you will!" says Natalia, by way of an invitation.

Natalia's show in York revives her memories of a previous visit to Yorkshire at the age of 21 to play Fevvers in Kneehigh's stage adaptation of Angela Carter's Nights At The Circus on tour at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. "That was the show where I said, 'Can I play the accordion on the trapeze?' and I went through a phase where I did this manoeuvre and kept falling off.

"So there I was on this triple trapeze and I fell off again but this time I fell backwards and landed on my feet and from then on I never fell again!"

The trapeze will be absent tonight but the accordion will be present as Natalia and Molotov Jukebox seek thrills, rather than spills, at Fibbers.

Molotov Jukebox's Just The Thrill Tour visits Fibbers, York, tomorrow. Box office: at fibbers.co.uk or molotovjukebox.com or on the door from 7.30pm.

Did you know?

Natalia Tena played Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter film series and the wildling Osha in Game Of Thrones