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Who are the Sheikhs? The Sheikhs are a three-piece rock and roll outfit, originally birthed in Darwin NT 1997, and currently existing across two Australian States and a Territory. (Coincidentally, the midpoint between these three locations, near the NT/QLD border, is home to the largest assemblage of feral camels anywhere in the world, and a place that can move between punishing desert, and fecund greenery over minute time and distance, due to unstable weather conditions.) https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-24.6037192,139.3477373,9.63z?hl=en-GB The Sheikhs are: Francis Diatschenko, Leon Hewer, Markus Karlsen. What are the Sheikhs about? The Sheikhs are all about high impact and compact. High impact as in a sweaty Darwin interpretation of Captain Beefheart’s Exploding Note Theory. Compact in the ye olde worlde sense of looking to strike a deal, a mutually beneficial bargain (for performer and listener, say) around something of consequence.Given that at their fighting best the Sheikhs