The Puppini Sisters are causing quite a stir in the clubs. Feisty Italian Marcella Puppini abandoned her career with Vivienne Westwood to form the Sisters by recruiting her soul mates, Stephanie O'Brien and Kate Mullins, for a laugh.
Their stylised and highly choreographed tribute to the close harmony trios of the 1930s and 1940s is fused with the modern attitude adopted by Manhattan Transfer and the Flying Pickets.
So along with every swing time standard such as Java Jive and Jeepers Creepers, The Puppinis tackle the likes of The Smiths' Panic and Blondie's Heart Of Glass.
Of course, the mark of a truly classic song is one that can withstand vastly different arrangements but remain great.
The Puppini's chose their material well. Of greatest interest is the girls' take on Wuthering Heights. Kate Bush's classic is treated to close harmony cooing, a thundering double bass and spooky sounding glass bottles being played like a xylophone.
It's all quite mad, of course, but fabulous.
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