Bone Machine, a band of touring and recording musicians, play a raucous punk-jazz set of Tom Waits songs at Hull City Hall.
Bone Machine bring their tribute to Tom Waits to Hull City Hall on Monday 8 March 2027, starting at 8pm. It's a full evening of Waits's songs, played live by a band of touring and recording musicians who've worked across the board. The set pulls from his bourbon-soaked ballads, his spoken-word monologues, and the funny anecdotes that sit between the songs, all delivered with a ramshackle sophistication that brings the heart, atmosphere, and sweat into the room.
On stage, the band runs as a five-piece: Jack Healy on vocals, Conor Brady on guitars, Julyo D'Agostino on bass, Des Harrington on drums, and Dario Rodigherio on keys. They describe their sound as a raucous, melancholic, punk-jazz take on Waits's songs, and the line-up has a fair bit of mileage behind it. They've played alongside The Blades, Camille O'Sullivan, Jerry Fish, Mary Coughlan, Toots and the Maytals, and The Corrs, and Julyo D'Agostino was once a Grammy nominee.
They call themselves crusading dark horses who keep the mysteries of life alive, and they're billed as the live band that best captures the golden thread of what makes Tom Waits such a legend. The show doesn't just stick to the music, though; it brings in the monologues and the storytelling that are such a part of his act, so it's as much about the voice and the stories as it is about the songs. It's a night that leans into the grit and the humour of his work rather than polishing it down.
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Tickets start from £20, and the show kicks off at 8pm at Hull City Hall, Queen Victoria Square, Paragon Street, HU1 3RQ.
