“Sugarfoot Stomp is a six-piece outfit with a dirty swing sound and a sleazy line-up who prefer to turn up after dark to show off their big-trousered, late night honkin’ horns and jive. From the Weald of Kent, they practise in a barn and only come out to play when they can scrape together enough cash to fuel their thirsty V8s. Just as happy to perform on the back of a flatbed truck as they are on the stage, they always seem to be sharing some private joke as they blow through each set with their trademark enthusiasm.”

Opinions differ about the origins of Jump Jive music. Some authorities say it has its roots in the strong community bonds that were fostered in the socially deprived late 1930s / early 1940s as an antidote to wartime penury and the wrist-slitting misery and self-indulgent overlong solos of the blues music from the Mississippi Delta. Others see it as a unique and necessary interim step between basic twelve bar forms with a blend of jazz-based instrumental tone and variety and the loud and endlessly repetitive rock ‘n’ roll paradigm which matured into the ultimate sophistication of 1960s R&B.

But that’s mostly bollocks. The truth is that the adventure began in a barn in the Weald of Kent one night when a bunch of guys decided that there must be more to life than sitting in a barn at night listening to old Fletcher Henderson tracks.

Whether you love to Lindy, or Jitterbuggery is your thing, whether you like a foot-tappin’ frenzy or a hot night out, whether you’re into honkin’ horns, or you just can’t afford a real band, the SUGAR FOOT STOMP is for you!

Price list:
Fashion Show with some authentic silly hats and very BIG trousers in a variety of styles and materials.
£100



Small scale cruise with the 1950s vehicles on display and rides for nice ladies, or men with money to spare to help satisfy the thirsty cast iron lumps .
£100


Pub gig with a couple of free drinks, some sort of food and two forty-minute sets of crowd-pleasers
£200

Pub gig, as above, but with trousers and cars.
£300

Events/Private Parties
(Birthday, Wedding, Christening, Funeral &c.) With free drinks in abundance, bar snacks, six square meals, three forty-minute sets of wild entertainment, requests, encores, boorish behaviour (in character, of course) and a fair bit of difficulty getting home again, while wearing the trousers and driving the cars.
£600