what they say about us

'love [the Zen] Hussies, love Tragics[Roundabout], love you, and hope you take that as the compliment it's meant as..!'

- Festival Eye Magazine

Our lovely audience in between tunes at the Bullingdon Arms, Oxford!

MANCHESTER ACADEMY 2010 (with 3 Daft Monkeys):

'Inflatable Buddha are, in fact, a hilarious assault on our musical and comfort barriers... the perfect act to literally warm-up our subdued, frozen mass, encouraging the audience to creep forward and dance to their delectable punky disorder'
- Sophie Parkes, SpiralEarth.co.uk

TRUCK FESTIVAL 2010:

'...So we wander over to the cabaret tent again for INFLATABLE BUDDHA who are doing a far better job of keeping the party going. They’re like a gypsy-punk hoe-down at the Mad Hatter’s tea party and fronted by one of Oxford’s most engaging – and genuinely funny – frontmen in Steve Larkin. From meandering jazz dance to cheesy klezmer into frantic waltzes and polkas they are more than a little daft but infectiously fun'
- Nightshift Magazine

QUEEN OF CLUBS CABARET'S SUMMER BALL 2010:

'Part punk, part poets, and both weird and wonderful, this band's shambolic anarchy was a delight to behold'
- DV8 Magazine (p21)

2008 CANADIAN FRINGE THEATRE TOUR REVIEWS

"Grab some pals, have a few drinks and spend an evening with these folks for a good ol' knees up - Grade A"
- Winnipeg Uptown Mag

"If Tim Burton were British and played klezmer music, perhaps he would have produced a show like this"
- CBC

"Good, cheeky fun makes for a too-short hour with Inflatable Buddha"
- Winnipeg Free Press

"this production has the goofy good-time vibe that Fringers seek"
- Saskatoon Star Phoenix

"'quirky' is a tattered term run ragged by Fringe overuse. But it could easily make a comeback with this enjoyable oddity"
- Edmonton Journal

OTHER REVIEWS

'Inflatable Buddha are a blast...Finding a point at which Ian Dury and The Straycats meet, they blow the cobwebs out of your ears...a curiously enjoyable oddity'
Nightshift: Oxford's local music magazine

'The biggest laugh of the weekend was Inflatable Buddha, whose shambolic anarchy and ribald humour went down a storm.'
BBC Oxford Review of Oxford Folk Festival

'A truly weird and wonderful band...Inflatable Buddha are one of the most original and individual bands around'
sonance.co.uk

'IB seem set to become an Oxford institution, and well they should: if the Pitt Rivers Museum were a band it would sound a lot like this'
dailyinfo.co.uk

'I've seen this band live and they are probably one of the most entertaining and enlightening uses of an evening you could possibly hope for.'
sonance.co.uk

'Art-punk-folk poets? This posse fits no ready-made category but they've got a hurdy gurdy and they're gonna use it. Also featuring tabla, double bass and the raucous talents of frontman Steve Larkin.
Unusual. Unmissable. And on the Up.'
Oxford Folk Festival

'Highly original, excellent lyrics and superb musicality...One of the most original bands I have seen for a very long time'
Andover Advertiser

'Like a cross between the Goon Show and the Pixies'
Climate activist Olaf Bayer

'Inflatable Buddha are proof that you don't know everything, and you will never know everything - and consequently they leave you clapping like a grateful sea lion with a big fat smile'
Paul Carrera, Nightshift Magazine

'Worth the price of admission alone!'
Boomerang Roots Music & Comedy Club, Stamford, Peterborough

'violently unusual but really bitingly good'
'Box Biitch' on the Spiers & Boden discussion forum

Immortalised in print in 'Isolarion - A Different Oxford Journey' by James Attlee