THOMAS TRUAX AND HIS ROCK INVENTIONS TOUR HITS THE UK

  

 AMERICAN INVENTOR THOMAS TRUAX BRINGS SELF-MADE INSTRUMENTS TO ‘ROCKIN’ INVENTIONS’ UK TOUR 2016

American Thomas Truax is one of the most imaginative characters on the pop music fringe. Since the early 2000’s, he’s been releasing records and traveling the world performing with his evolving “band” of surreal self-made Harry Partch-esque instruments including a motorized drum machine made of bike wheels called ‘Mother Superior’ and a souped-up Dr. Seuss-ian Gramophone called ‘The Hornicator’, as well as his venerable resonator guitar (named simply Hank).

The Oxford Times calls Thomas “One of rock’s great eccentrics.”

Splendid Magazine calls 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.”

He crafts rich, poetically evocative and lively songs about insects, trees, technology, and a lifelong obsession with things lunar, including various reasons ‘Why Dogs Howl at The Moon’. His eight studio LPs include a highly-rated covers album ‘Songs From The Films Of David Lynch’, and his latest, ‘Jetstream Sunset’, features a powerhouse special ingredient in drummer Brian Viglione (of the Dresden Dolls/Violent Femmes). But while Thomas’s albums have received considerable praise, it’s his energetic and often surreal mix of man, machine, musicianship, storytelling, and audience interaction that make up the live shows for which he is best known.

The Rockin’ Inventions UK tour will include the British live debut of a new instrument ‘the Saxogramophone’.

Notable Truax supporters and collaborators have included Jarvis Cocker, Duke Special, Richard Hawley, Amanda Palmer, and the late author Terry Pratchett.

Thomas’s surreal rendition of the classic ‘Greensleeves’ will be featured on an upcoming Shakespeare-related compilation album ‘Food Of Love’, to be released on Autolycus records in May in conjunction with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. He’ll perform this piece in three pre-tour Shakespeare Jubilee shows.

“It’s a mutual exchange of blood, bone, wood and metal, most of which is home grown. If you leave a Truax show without smiling somewhere in your body, you’re fucked.”Richard Hawley

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

“His gigs are extraordinary, fizzing with showmanship.”Q

ROCKIN’ INVENTIONS UK TOUR 2016:

29th April, Fri: Northampton, NN Cafe, Guildhall Road, nn11dp , Northamptonshire  https://www.facebook.com/events/214747188890525/

5th May, Thurs:  London, Lexington  96-98 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9JB  https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/thomastruaxrockininventions
6th May, Friday: Brighton, Green Door Store, Trafalgar Street, Brighton, BN1 4FQ. Telephone 07894 267053 http://www.seetickets.com/event/thomas-truax/the-green-door-store/968045

13th May, Fri: Sheffield, Lamplight Club at Regather 57-59 Club Garden Road, Sheffield S11 8BU 0114 273 1258 https://www.facebook.com/events
14th May, Sat: Scunthorpe, The Mouth Magazine at Cafe Indie,  169-173 High St, Scunthorpe DN15 6EH

15th May, Sun: Leeds, Brudenell Social Club 33 Queen’s Road  Leeds LS6 1NY 0113 275 2411 www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk

18th May, Wed: York, Fullford Arms 121 Fulford Rd, Fulford, York YO10 4EX
20 May, Fri: Manchester, The Eagle Inn  (Salford), 19 Collier Street, Salford, M3 7DW Tix:  http://www.seetickets.com/event/thomas-truax/eagle-inn/966434  http://www.heymanchester.com/thomas-truax-vinny-peculiar
21st May, Sat: Widnes (near Liverpool): The Studio, Lacey St Widnes WA8 7SQ 0151 420 8997

26th May, Thurs: Bristol, Louisiana (with Bob Log III)  Wapping Road BS1 6UA http://www.thelouisiana.net http://www.thelouisiana.net/events/26-may-16-bob-log-iii-the-louisiana/
27th May, Fri: Plymouth, Devon  The Red House (Plymouth School Of Creative Arts), 22 Millbay Road

28th May, Sat: Exeter,  Cavern, 83-84 Queen St, Devon EX4 3RP

29 May, Sun: Cardiff, Wales  Strange Daze Festival Tix: https://www.facebook.com/strangedazefest/
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Summer Festivals

16th July, Sat: Truckfestival 2016 Steventon

22  July (Fri) Deer Shed Festival Baldersby Park, Topcliffe North Yorkshire http://deershedfestival.com/
24th July, Sun. Sheffield, Tramlines

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