Welcome to the home of Encouraging the Loony, the larger than life duo that mixes unique arrangements of your favourite tunes with improvisation and musical pyrotechnics!

E.T.L features Karl ‘Captain Loud’ Mullen on piano and Neil ‘Lord Loony of Percussion’ Scott on drums. The guys are both experienced professional musicians trying their best to challenge the traditional ideas of what an acoustic duo can do. It could be argued that they’re a little crazy but these loonies are absolutely determined that their audiences will have a great night! (They also have a great big van each which helps immensely!)

So... have you ever wondered what the soundtrack might be like if Sergei Rachmaninoff had a nightmare about Tom Jones? What if Scott Joplin was in fact wrong, and ragtime should always, ALWAYS be played really very fast indeed?!? Well wonder no more!

Encouraging the Loony will take you from the gentle jazz of Nina Simone’s ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me’ to the full-on Boogie assault of ‘Night Train’, and from the dark beauty of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Ten Years Gone’ to ‘Flight of the Bumble Bee’ and ‘Play That Funky Music’!

You really do need to see and hear it for yourself!