Tuesday 1 April 2008

TROPICAL ROBOTS present THOMAS TRUAX

Friday April 4th @ Belgian Café, 8pm

TROPICAL ROBOTS present THOMAS TRUAX



"From New York City, an anti-folk legend"

"In a conventional world, this man is the superhero of nonconformity"

"A mad music scientist"

"Tom Waites' weird younger brother"


A true one-off, there is no one else like him as no one else in the world has home-made instruments like The Hornincator, Sister Spinster and The Cadillac Beatspinner Wheel which all look like contraptions found in a zany inventor's workshop. However Truax is no gimmick, he writes mesmerising songs and the noises these weird machines make set them off rather nicely.
In short, a must-see act.


A bewildering melange of garage rock songs, avant garde sounds and cabaret showtunes, full of whistles, toy piano, ice cream chimes and invented instruments... with shades of Tom Waits' storytelling, Nick Cave's theatricality and Lux Interior's howling-at-the-moon madness. - SoundsXp
www.myspace.com/thomastruax
http://www.thomastruax.com/

Video: Prove It To My Daughter by Thomas Truax

+ special guests:

Captain Blood Blood and The Sea Dogs (Leigh-on Sea, Essex)
Weirdly brilliant ska flecked sea shanties from our seaside cousins accross the estury
www.myspace.com/captainbloodbloodandtheseadogs


Sky:Lark (Margate)
Awesome ensamble shreading guitars through swooping melodies
www.myspace.com/skylarkylark

Southwood (Ramsgate)
Punk and role from Costa Del Thanet
http://www.myspace.com/southwooduk

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