Clawhammer Xerxes - Voice, Banjo, Banjolele, Trombone, Olde-Time Stylings, Sideburns Orson Thrombosis - Harmonium, Voice, Beard Ten Trolley Tabatha - Saw, Baritone Ukulele, Voice, Acrobatics Rictus Buttercup - Drums, Glockenspiel, Beard Scranton De La Plenge - Euphonium, Voice, Beard Johann Screwdriver The Willful - French Horn, Nice Coat Troutface the Grue - Clarinet, Voice, Sideburns
And a rotating cast of thousands for our live performances
Influences
Curtis Eller, Benjamin Wetherill, Beirut, Neutral Milk Hotel, Low, Belf's Rumanian Orchestra, A Silver Mt Zion, Edward Gorey, John Hodgman, Chester Brown
Sounds Like
15 pounds of lead shot falling on a broken Ocean drum
Boxcar Aldous Huxley was formed in Bristol in Spring 2008 by a cinema projectionist, an illustrator and an aerialist, playing banjo, harmonium and saw respectively. Further instruments and their accompanying musicians were recruited, such that euphonium, drums and clarinet can all be experienced, along with the occasional blast of souzaphone and a sombre chorus of vocals various.
As often happens in these situations, the saw player ran away to join the circus.
Their songs speak of failed revolution in 19th Century Canada, the apocryphal necrophilia of painter and muse, and related matters.
They are available for film soundtracks, funerals, and will gladly write you a campaign song to aid your run for high office, in exchange for cold hard cash, or liquor. The liquor need not be cold, though it should still be hard.
The above songs comprise a recent performance at the Cube Cinema in Bristol, supporting Curtis Eller with My Two Toms, on the 10th April 2009. They were expertly recorded by Mr James King, to whom we are very grateful.
22/03/09 Bristol, with Vase and the Madrigals 10/04/09 Norwich, with Internet forever 13/04/09 Edinburgh, with Withered Hand 17/04/09 London, with the light sleepers and the Madrigals 25/04/09 Madrid for Abril No tan Cruel festival
The Cube, Bristol This Friday, 14th November Doors 7.30pm £4 advance, £5 on the door (Tickets available from Here Shop and Bristol Ticket Shop)
NLF3 http://www. myspace. com/nlf3 Formed in Paris in 2000, NLF3 create music is cyclical, textured, halfway between movie scores and psychedelic transgression. The band cites influences such as Alice Coltrane, Fela Kuti, This Heat, Can and the early Sonic Youth while mixing a lot of electronics together with a wide variety of instruments : amplified kalimba, electric guitars and bass, drums, percussions, vocals.
SOE'ZA http://www. myspace. com/soeza Soe'za are currently a seven-piece band, hailing from points along the M4 corridor, from Bristol to London. With a somewhat unorthodox line-up of two drum kits, two electric guitars, bass, French horn, Soe'za mix Can-esque grooves, and urgent guitars with two disparate yet complimentary singers in the shape of Ben Owen's clear-voiced declarations and Jenny Robinson's soulful melodies.
BOZZ JATCH http://www. myspace. com/bozzjatch Featuring current and ex members of Soeza, The Wailingest Cats and Zun Zun Egui, Bozz Jatch are an experimental swing trio. Rumbling double bass and intricate drums give way to complex guitar lines and smooth croons. Yielding a unique pop sound that marries diverse influences; from Django Reinhart and Charles Mingus through to the elaborate tapestries of Steve Reich and Tortoise.
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players with An Axe, Bar Oppo, 22nd September 2008
Decorum presents a last minute tour addition, an intimate performance from The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow players - Monday 22nd of September at Oppo (72 Park Street, Bristol).
The Trachtenburgs are a domestic trio who play quirky indie vaudeville pop songs in the key of unironic good, clean fun with one major catch: all the songs carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections they've found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances.
