Poles Apart is a four to eight piece stilt walking band. They do Pirates, Punch & Judy, 30's Rif Raff, Santa Claus, Soldiers, Victorians (Dead and more brightly coloured), Dogs and Devils, Medieval, Elvis, Insects and Sgt Peppers. The music they play is generally rock 'n' roll, disco, pop, rock and trad jazz, all using the stripped down instrumentation of sousaphone, banjo, percussion and sax, with harmony vocals.

If you want a band of mediaeval mendicants playing lyres and singing Dowland, they can do it (for a price!).

Poles Apart has been up and down the country, performing at town festivals, to the Queen (twise), music festivals, corporate events and television.

They can provide musical entertainment of: a mandolin orchestra/quintet/soloist, classical guitarist, Renaissance Lutenist, musical saw and entertainers: clowns, stilt-walkers, acrobats, jugglers, street shows, street theatre, magicians.