for all enquiries regarding bookings for gigs etc. please contact

Flook
33 Lemsford Road,
St. Albans, Herts, AL1 3PP, UK
Tel/ Fax: +44 1727 861209
e-mail: bookings@flook.co.uk

“Four brilliant musicians. Four times as much brilliant music”
Time Out

“A sensational live act.... in the front rank of the innovators”
The Rough Guide to Irish Music, April 2001

“Folk musicians for people who don’t like folk music”
London Evening Standard

"Never have I seen so many people so completely and utterly spellbound...the most magical of experiences."
The Irish Post

“You need a cold shower to fully wake up to the phenomenal potential of this music”
Irish Music Magazine

“Probably many people’s choice as band of the year...little short of miraculous. Their last album ‘Flatfish’ was excellent, but even that cannot prepare you for the rapport that exists between these four musicians on stage. Flook has to be an essential live experience.”
Bristol Venue Magazine

“Sheer musical magic...Stunning technique, impossibly agile rhythm work and virtuoso flights of jazzy improvisation add up to one of the most enthralling sounds around.”
The Scotsman

“Multi-layered, rhythmically sophisticated and meltingly beautiful.”
Glasgow Sunday Herald

“They looked for all the world like four people - until they started playing when they became as tight as one while producing a sound as rich as ten”
The Shetland Times

"If there’s one album that stands head and shoulders above the rest of this year’s crop it has to be this one... Magnificent."
The Irish Times

"coolness with fire, tightness with space, delicacy with toughness...a uniquely thrilling whole ***** "
Sunday Herald, Glasgow

"a virtuosity that transcends mere technique and approaches the sublime"
Irish Music Magazine

"... four musicians and their cohorts playing with one miraculous mind ... never mind end of year lists, Rubai should be on your shopping menu now."
Hot Press

"...keeps the ear delighted, the face grinning, the feet dancing and the heart soaring...joyous and irresistible"
BBC Folk/Acoustic website

"the exuberant music made by these eight hands will transcend any expectations...an album of creativity, virtuosity and warmth"
Scotland on Sunday

“…one of the most innovative and sheer exhilarating outfits around… Rubai builds upon their expertise and almost symbiotic playing to conjure up a new box of magical tricks…this is already one of the essential albums of 2002”
Songlines

"... exhilarating music, full of zest and optimism, brave in exploration, and classy in execution..."
Irish Music Magazine, August 2002

"...nothing but highlights....The music alone is more than enough to justify putting this CD at the top of the "Wanted" list.... Rubai is like a musical workout, uplifting and draining both at once... addictive, and almost too good to bear."
Irish Music Magazine, September 2002

"... by far and away the pick of the current crop of CD's ... stunning …"
Traditional Music Maker

"... a perfect and outstanding album ..."
www.folkword.de

"... this is scintillating stuff ... here is music of the highest calibre."
www.folking.com

"This is an extraordinarily good record... . The duelling flutes of Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen present a gloriously intuitive vanguard, but the driving rhythmic textures of Ed Boyd on guitar and John Joe Kelly on bodhran shouldn't be overlooked either. The result is a fiery instrumental configuration that you may mentally wish to consign to the background but which surges through to the foreground with its guile, subtlety and sheer musical conviction. .... the success of Flook is a beacon of an enlightened age where traditions mix, instrumental bands are on an equal footing to vocal groups and people write tunes every bit as compelling as those you find in the tradition. " fRoots

“No frills, no studio gloss, just simple unadorned pleasure from start to finish”
The Rough Guide to Irish Music, April 2001

“ an album of subtle fire, wit and rhythmic intensity.”
MOJO December 1999 Folk Album of the Month

“a cornucopia of sublime musicianship.” Rating: * * * * *
The Scotsman, 2.10.99

“A mighty, mighty gathering of the clans...some of the best young musicians in the land... quite spectacular.”
Folk Roots, November 1999

“Brilliant short-flute and whistle acrobatics on new and old tunes.”
Sunday Tribune, Ireland, November 1999

“Nothing short of brilliant..irresistible.”
Dirty Linen, April/May 2000

“A subtlety that sets them yards apart ...... This is far more than just another Celtic album by just another band.”
Hot Press, 30.3.2000

"Spectacular.....no shortage of fire and flair.....highly recommended."
The Living Tradition, November 1999