Thomas Truax

The Joiners

A nice pub venue with a wide but not too deep stage. Gets a mixture of brillant small gigs, to the bigger bands playing smaller dates.»

Thomas Truax

A one-man antifolk machine, Thomas Truax has even created, out of bits of junk, two of his own instruments:
The Cadillac Beatspinner Wheel (and its baby version, Sister Spinster)
The Hornicator

Must be a pain in the ass if either of them break on tour.

He has an album available called 'Full Moon Over Wowtown', which will be reissued in Jan '04 on London label Real Time, and he has played Truck Festival as well as various antifolk conquests.

Interesting fact: He was once an animator on 'Celebrity Death Match'»

Alaskan Pipeline

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The Honeymoon Machine

Formed in 2004 around a nucleus of friendships and musical connections and named in tribute to the 1961 movie featuring Steve McQueen's first film role, The Honeymoon Machine are:

Aaron Courtney-Stokes - Vocals, guitar
Paul "Bobby" Jones - Keyboards, vocals
Matt Parker - Guitar, vocals
Lee "Chef" Blackburn - Bass
James "Donny" Connolly - Drums, vocals

After a UK debut taster single In To Your Head charted in the spring, the band toured briefly, gaining a reputation for epic and intense performances. They followed up with a trip to Canada and the US where their technicolor textures found a firmly building fan base among the wide-open spaces.

Comparisons have been wide-ranged and disparate; Spiritualized, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd and Mercury Rev to mane but four. But The Honeymoon Machine are a difficult band to pin down - this is an essentially new brew, a blissed out psyched up rock'n'roll.»