Their debut LP You Me Bullets Love was iTunes' breakthrough "world music" album of 2012, and the 11-strong collective are widening their audience at numerous European festivals this summer, including Glastonbury. Their sound is a suitably rich blend, mixing evocative Bollywood classics with surf guitars, ska and disco, as if the Indian soundtrack innovator R?D Burman had scored a full Tarantino movie. Now the Melbourne-born performer is fronting a radically different musical project: The Bombay Royale, a masked ensemble led by a sailor-suited saxophonist called The Skipper. Singh is the daughter of Dya Singh, a renowned exponent of Sikh hymns, with whom she sang for many years while also mastering the traditional Indian dance form of kathak.
Most of this festival crowd is already resplendent in fancy dress and thus a colourful field full of cartoon characters and historical figures gamely attempts the graceful Bollywood-style moves of the grinning Singh. On a sunny Saturday evening in England’s rural south-west, and at the quaint and usually quiet Larmer Tree Gardens, Parvyn Kaur Singh is encouraging thousands of onlookers to cast off their inhibitions.
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