Cabaret

Who The Cuban Brothers

What Late-night home-coming show for cult Latino cabaret group

Why The Cuban Brothers are late starting. It’s softly raining, and 25 minutes in a queue – Scottish Hooray Henrys in front, drunk international student girls behind – is swiftly seeming an eternity. Finally ushered in, the audience is, by now, an extremely well lubricated one. The Cuban Brothers started life in Edinburgh and, since the late 1990s, ‘frontman’ Miguel Montovani (Mike Keats) and his group have  stormed festivals, awards ceremonies and, perhaps most appropriately, the main stage at Manumission. Strangers to the city might not get the in-jokes about Scottish football, legendarily debauched local club night Taste or legendarily gay local bar CC Blooms, but they’re playing for a home crowd who do and lap it up. There’s excellent funk and soul singing, there’s breakdancing, there’s highly sexual gropings of both men and women in the audience, there’s some more breakdancing, and, of course, there’s Miguel stripping down to skimpy underwear. The show's not for everyone – Daily Mail readers, perhaps, the elderly or the sober – but for a packed out Udderbelly, they're perfect Friday night mayhem. The Cuban Brothers may have started late, but on form like this, they could go all night. Simone Baird

At Udderbelly, Aug 23, 11.45pm