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Monday, August 24, 2009 

Category: Music
TR & Storehouse are doing the following far out gigs over the next few weeks, come on down:



August 2009 - England
Thurs 27 Aug - Harlequin, Sheffield (guesting with Giles Hedley), 9pm
Sat 29 Aug - Cricket Inn, Totley Sheffield, 7.30pm

September 2009 - England.
Fri 4th Sept - Spitz Festival of the Blues, King's Place, York Way, London. 8.45pm / £4.50
Sun 6th Sept - Coach & Horses, Sheffield Rd, Dronfield, Derbyshire. 8pm - late
Thurs 10th Sept - TBA theatre performance,Battersea, London
Wed 16th Sept - Frog and Parrot, Division Street, Sheffield, 9pm.
Thurs 17th Sept - Harlequin, Nursery St, Sheffield, 8.30pm.
Fri 18th Sept - Brooks Blues Bar @ the Telegraph, Putney, London. 8pm / £10, with Giles Hedley.
Fri 25th Sept - The Glad Stone, Lant St, Borough, London. 8.30pm.
Sat 26th Sept - Private Function

October 2009 - Switzerland & England.
Thurs 8th Oct - Krempel, Buchs SG, Switzerland.
Fri 9th Oct - Le Mouton Noir, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Sat 8th Oct - Transformateur, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Fri 16th Oct - Birds Nest, Deptford, London.
Wed 21st Oct - Frog and Parrot, Division Street, Sheffield, 9pm.
Thurs 22nd Oct - Harlequin, Nursery St, Sheffield, 8.30pm.
Sat 31st Oct - TR with Art Terry and Leila Adu at the Rude Shipyard, Abbeydale Rd, Sheffield.

http://www.tomrodwell.com








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Saturday, April 04, 2009 

Current mood:WORKING
Category: Music

Well well well,

An absurdist thumbing of the nose at the modern music biz, or a primitivist audio fetish? Either way, turning up the central heating leads to better recordings.

Miss this at your peril...

TR



Fireplace Music and Media presents:

THE BACK TO WAX REVUE
TOM RODWELL (NZ), MADAME PAMITA (USA), BOROUGH CAT, vs VULCAN CYLINDER RECORD COMPANY.
* Wednesday May 20th, The George Tavern, 373 Commercial Road, London, E1 0LA
* Sunday May 24th, The Luminaire, 311 High Road, London, NW6 7JR

Weep not for the CD! As that plastic format slides into obsolescence it’s worth remembering that although equipment gimmicks and fashions come and go, the real business of music happens in the here and now. But what alchemy occurs when music is shoehorned into a recording?  What effect does form have on content?  Tonight witness modern performers grapple onstage with recording onto the vintage wax cylinder, the earliest medium of recorded sound, in a process that affects musical performance more than might be expected. Expect a primitivist outsider-art jam session and interactive encounter with the otherworldly soundworld of wax cylinder - state of the art, circa 1890. Guaranteed overdub free.

The revue’s headlining musicians met in a Californian curiosity shop, discovering they shared not only a love for antique musical styles but had both been independently working with the original antique medium itself - the eerie wax cylinder - with the help of the enthusiasts who sustain a surprisingly vibrant cottage technology.

Electric guitarist, singer and foot-stomper Tom Rodwell, something of an underground notoriety on the UK blues scene, performs in New Zealand, Holland, Switzerland and the USA, occasionally with friends and collaborators known as Storehouse.  A purveyor of improvisations drawn from slave spirituals, blues and calypso, Rodwell is a refreshingly pastiche-free and self-possessed act, constantly reinventing his material.  “By turns wild, angry, hypnotic and sensual, it’s as uncompromising as it is funky and some of the best live music I’ve seen,” Blues in London. www.tomrodwell.com  

Madame Pamita, LA’s leading ukulele lady and fortune teller, visits England following a marathon set of wax sessions at the home of Edison
Historical Site curator and engineer Peter Dilg, using a recording horn once owned by Thomas Edison himself. (She brings “Madame Pamita’s Wax Works” on CD for your refined ears).  A lively and vital specialist in prewar Americana, vaudeville and folk, Mme Pamita performs on banjo, baritone ukelele and is accompanied by Patrick Weise on musical saw and auxiliary ukulele. Her original songs are bawdy, surreal, and defiantly jaunty. Witness the world’s foremost euphonious prognosticatrix! www.madamepamita.com  

The Vulcan Cylinder Record Company is the brainchild of Duncan Miller of Sheffield, and remains the only authentic cylinder record label/studio in the world using, and improving upon, the electricity-free techniques pioneered by Thomas Edison.  Miller has recently been involved in a project with a Norwegian museum, duplicating turn of the century field recordings from the Arctic circle, and his label ships brand new cylinders to clients around the world. Miller also holds the world record for the longest continuous Music Hall-a-thon. www.phonographcylinders.com   

Also appearing will be the mysterious doe-eyed dude of dolorum, London’s weariest 21st century songster, the Borough Cat. Expect from him themes of thievery, incest, and rainy holidays.  


Madame Pamita & Tom Rodwell UK tour 2009
Thurs May 14, The Gladstone Arms, Borough, London
Fri May 15, The Alma, Crystal Palace, London,
Sat May 16, Matsu, Mile End, London
Sun May 17, Dr King’s Jailhouse, East Dulwich Tavern, London
Tues May 19, Cricketer’s Arms, Keighley
Wed May 20, The George Tavern, London (BACK TO WAX REVUE)
Thurs May 21, The Harlequin, Sheffield
Fri May 22, Brooks Blues Bar, London
Sat May 23, Lantern Theatre, Sheffield
Sun May 24, Luminaire, London (BACK TO WAX REVUE)  

The phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, inscribes sound into grooves in the wax or plastic surface of a cylinder.  What is recorded is not an acoustic sound, but the sound of the recording horn and mechanism vibrating in sympathy with the music. It is quite literally an impressionistic medium.‎


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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 

Hosted By:
Tom Rodwell & Storehouse

When:
Friday, February 13, 2009

Where:
The Gladstone Arms
64 Lant Street
London
SE1 1QN

Description:
Live housewrecking blues, spirituals, primitivist calypso and more from Tom Rodwell + maybe a guest or two at London's Gladstone Arms, near Borough Market. Plus extra special Friday 13th late late late licence! "Refreshingly different, very genuine and unforced and with a seriously juicy groove," Giles Hedley and the Aviators. www.tomrodwell.com

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Sunday, January 06, 2008 
It's that traditional time of year when the freaks who stay in Auckland for the summer crawl out from underneath their tasty rocks, and stagger blindly to the Wine Cellar, where we are stomping in our feverish and ramshackle fashion. Come to the shows - see the listings section for dates - and bring yer sister. It'll be the last chance for the rest of the year - watch for new US and UK dates in March.

Cheers!
T

(Oh yes - new tracks and vids coming soon).
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 

Category: Music
Howdy howdy

The mind bending Storehouse 2007 Out of the Wilderness tour winds up tomorrow night with a gospel-blues rave-up at The Wine Cellar, our funky old haunt in Auckland, New Zealand. The tour has seen 33 dates across 4 countries, and been an intriguing experience for all concerned, to say the least. If you happen to be in town come along and help us celebrate and give thanks to all the friends who helped us along the way.

Cheers,
Tom R and Joe Pineapple

www.storehousemusic.com

Storehouse
Friday 16 November
8.30pm
$10 on the door
The Wine Cellar
Beneath St Kevin's Arcade
Karangahape Road
Auckland Central
New Zealand
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