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Ballroom #79: Thomas Truax (USA, S/L Records) The Lower Deck, Fri July 25th

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  • 08-07-2008 3:48pm
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    Holyghost
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    As part of the Ballroom birthday weekender, Ballroom of Romance presents

    Ballroom #79 featuring Thomas Truax

    part Tim Burton soundtrack, part magic show, all deadly!

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    Friday July 25th, The Lower Deck
    Doors 9pm, €10. Free Download compilation with entry

    Thomas Truax

    New York City's Thomas Truax (pronounced troo-aks) is a left field troubadour and inventor/player of strange self-made instruments like his now legendary 'Hornicator' and a motorized mechanical drum machine called 'Sister Spinster'. He employs these and other contraptions as well as traditional instruments in exceptionally crafted, witty and often touching songs. Splendid magazine recently called him "one of the five or ten best singer/songwriters in the world that you've never heard of...an exceptional talent, unique and resistant to comparison, yet fairly accessible even to casual listeners."

    He's got three acclaimed full length albums under his belt: 'Audio Addiction', 'Full Moon Over Wowtown', and 'Why Dogs Howl at the Moon', and numerous singles and compilation tracks. He has toured nearly
    constantly for the past five years, most recently doing support tours with the Dresden Dolls and Duke Special. He's played Glastonbury and Edinburgh Fringe festivals and appeared on MTV. His own radio serial, The Wowtown News, plays on Resonance FM in London.

    "In Truax's hands music is merely a vessel for his scattershot imagination, earning him a place in a lineage that includes Captain Beefheart and Viv Stanshall and, latterly, a less-frenetic Liars. Equal parts music-hall, avant-garde and garage rock, 'Full Moon Over Wowtown' is far more accessible than these references imply, thanks chiefly to Truax's lycanthropic bark... and his obvious love of primal rock 'n' roll. Had the bands that exploded out of CBGB's in '76 been inspired by LSD rather than cheap speed one suspects that the results would have been disturbingly like this, and that today's bands
    hell-bent on recycling those days would be more interesting as well as
    a hell of a lot better."     -Alan Downes, LOGO Magazine (UK)

    www.thomastruax.com
    www.myspace.com/thomastruax

    with guests

    Hoovers & Sledgehammers
    Mirakil Whip
    The Bastard Rain


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