AUSTRALIAN favourites, The Spooky Men's Chorale, will be performing at St David's Hall, Cardiff, on Tuesday, July 28.

Following triumphant UK tours in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013, they are busy packing hats in their native New South Wales, ready to whisk themselves away from the eucalyptus-infused Blue Mountains for a whistle-stop run of nearly 40 performances around the UK.

Describing themselves as “equal parts monk, Visigoth and village idiot” they are not afraid to send up the stereotypical male to side-splitting effect. Says Spookmeister (and sole Kiwi) Stephen Taberner, “The chorale attempts to explore the paradoxes of latter day masculinity with unbridled enthusiasm, a pleasing array of deep harmonies and a gentle wink towards posterity. We're trying to master the impossible art of being both musically immaculate and blitheringly stupid.”

The Spookies were formed by Melbourne-based Taberner in Sydney in 2001. With a sound variously described as “sexy, powerful, impossibly gentle and sad but unmistakably male” their repertoire ranges from Georgian drinking songs to whisper perfect ballads and a string of improbable original hits like Don’t Stand Between a Man and his Tool and Stop Scratching It. Spooky veterans will still be reeling from their hilarious, elephantine retreatments of classics like Earth, Wind & Fire’s Boogie Wonderland and the funniest version of Abba’s Dancing Queen you are likely to witness.

The mighty 15-strong line-up’s shiny new show will run the bizarre gamut of surfing, gluttony, tools, mastodons, Bee Gees, body parts and how to scare off hostile neighbouring tribes – songs from their last album The Spooky Man in History but also from their snug new album Warm.

They will be supported by Wiltshire based singer songwriter Jess Vincent who is about to release a new album, Shine.

Tickets cost £18 and are available from the box office on 02920 878444 or from stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk.