Based on the 18th century Beggars Opera and Brecht & Weills Threepenny Opera, the band present their own version of this wildly entertaining story as a song cycle swarming with highwaymen, thieves, jailors, pimps and prostitutes: a world of greed, crime, poverty, inequality and outrageous comedy, where the politicians are as corrupt as the lowlife below them. Their world is dark, peculiar and varied, with moments of deep sadness, cruel black humour and immense beauty with songs to match.