Ook and the Elephant are a band fuelled by biscuits and a fear of treble. We made some eps back in the 2010s, and decided 10 years later to rev up our tired, middle aged bodies and start performing again. It’s been a lot of fun so far. I’ll let me favourite review from back in the day sum up what we sound like…

Imagine yourself in the hot British summer sun with a refreshing beverage in one hand and your loved one in the other. That is where Ook and the Elephants’  music takes you. If I close my eyes when I listen to their debut EP ‘Find Yourself Gone’, I find myself in a big field in the middle of Glastonbury.

Picture Band of Skulls’ and Gogol Bordellos’ child, it comes in the shape of a Bolton based quartet.  Emily Cooke has some of the sweetest vocals you will hear in today’s music industry. Don McColl sings as low as his bass does, a contrapuntal sound compared to the lead vocals. For me it sums up their style, it’s like sugar coated fury.

Counterfeit Magazine

Next performance:

12th September - Mill Fest- Lancaster (tickets HERE)