Thomas Truax

Event information

£10 tickets available on the door at Art Bar from 7.30pm

PinDrop Performances Presents...

Inventor, singer and dreamer Thomas Truax, touring new album 'Trolls, Girls and Lullabies'. - http://www.thomastruax.com/

More press info below, support from Oxfordshire backwards porch folk duo The August List and singer/poet Huck.

Ticket admission also includes entry to club night Progressively Less Elephant with DJs playing motown, indie and pop till late.

https://www.facebook.com/theaugustlistmusic

http://huckandxander.bandcamp.com/


Press for Thomas Truax:


"His gigs are extraordinary, like cabaret nights fizzing with showmanship."
- Q

"Truax is shaping up nicely as one of the great rock eccentrics." - Uncut

"Genius." - NME

"When he performs, it is a spectacle - the originality and seeming impossibility of what he does is much of the appeal." - The Guardian

"Enthralling, mind-blowingly original and totally bonkers: just a few ways to describe Thomas Truax and his creative circus of the wonderfully surreal."
- Brighton Noise


One of the most imaginative characters on the pop music fringe Thomas Truax has been travelling the world for over a decade, releasing records and performing with his "band" of bizarre, self-made Tim Burton-esque instruments, including a motorised drum machine made of bike wheels called 'Mother Superior' and a pimped-up gramophone called 'The Hornicator' as well as his venerable resonator guitar 'Hank'. Hailing from New York and currently based in Germany, Thomas often plays over a hundred shows a year. Thomas latest recording is a specially commissioned soundtrack to theatrical masterpiece Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen in a production staged in Dortmund, Germany under the directorship of acclaimed German director Kay Voges.

More than just an inventor and entertainer Thomas crafts rich, poetically evocative songs about insects, trees, technology and various reasons as to 'Why Dogs Howl at The Moon'. Notable supporters include Jarvis Cocker, Duke Special, Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione of the Dresden Dolls (all of whom he's toured and collaborated with - including a live film soundtrack collaboration with Jarvis).

The author Terry Pratchett is a fan, and a meeting with director David Lynch resulted in the highly acclaimed (and cleverly titled) 2009 covers album, Songs From The Films Of David Lynch. Five other full-length releases include 2010's Sonic Dreamer (one of the best-reviewed albums of the summer of 2010) and Monthly Journal (2012), written and released in 12 intervals over 12 months.

This year Thomas turned down an invitation to perform on 'America's Got Talent' while accepting another to score and perform live in a stage production of Peer Gynt by award winning director Kay Voges in Dortmund, Germany. Reaction has been so strong for the play and its music that Truax put off completing a new album in-the-works (which he started over a year ago with the aforementioned Brian Viglione), and opted to first release the Peer Gynt soundtrack album Trolls, Girls, and Lullabies.