Rowdy rockers The Urban Voodoo Machine will be bringing their eclectic brand of cabaret tinged gypsy blues to the Porthleven Food Festival.

The 12 black and red clad rogues have garnered praise for their bourbon soaked gypsy blues, which they will be performing at the on the Shipyard stage on Friday, April 21, mixing up music with cabaret and burlesque.

The Urban Voodoo Machine began when main man Paul-Ronney Angel fled the fjords of Norway after a very short stint in the Norwegian army and travelled to London. After a period of selling the Big Issue and busking around Soho, P-R came up with the Urban Voodoo Machine sound.

He said: "I wanted to play rock'n'roll music with a different instrumentation," and after 13 years the band has played Glastonbury, Download, Latitude, Bestival and Hard Rock Calling, toured with The Pogues and the New York Dolls and released four albums including this year's Hellbound Hymns.

The gypsy blues band has garnered praise from the likes of Radio 2’s Paul Jones and Huey Morgan, 6Music’s Gideon Coe and Chris Hawkins, and Classic Rock called them "the most exciting Technicolor racket since Gogol Bordello first hit the UK," while Q Magazine said: "gleefully promiscuous - like The Pogues, The Urban Voodoo Machine leaves you almost vicariously drunk and already dreading the hangover."

The Urban Voodoo Machine will headline the Shipyard stage on April 21, along with The Motown Pirates and Rosie Crow Band.

Doors open at 6pm, and tickets cost £12.50, from porthlevenfoodfestival.com/tickets.