Aimee Mann, Ani Difranco, Bob Dylan,Nick Drake, Bob Marley, Bjork, David Bowie,The Cure, Goblin, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Gomez, Grahem Coxon, Gravenhurst, Joe Garcia, Joy Division, Mr Bungle, North See Navigator, Plaid, Steve Reich, Robert Johnson, SJ Esau, Steveless, The Girl From Headquarters, Team brick!, The Doors, The Pixies, The Shins, Deerhoof, Rasha Shaheen, The Beatles, John Frusciante, Buddy Holly, Can, Champion Dupree, Joni Mitchell, Knowledge of Bugs,Shooting at Unarmed Men, Silver Jews, Sleater-Kinney, Son House, The Waifs, Why?, Nina Natissa, Nick Cave, Dirty Three, A Silver Mount Zion, Espers, Be Good Tanyas, Broadcast, Caroline Martin, CocoRosie, Half Handed Cloud, Fog, Tom Waits,27 There is more but I have a bad memory..............................
Lacuna was born out of a New Years Resolution. I thought it would make a change to make some resolutions that were actually fun. One of them was to write and record some music to some of my words. This was in January 2006. I joined up with Steve who wrote and played guitar parts for three of my tunes.
After I finished working with Steve I decided I wanted to play a bigger part in what I was doing. So I picked up my cornet from my parents house which I hadn't played for about 7 years, bought a loop station and a glockinspeil and started playing round with loops. All the tracks on my My Space are taken straight from my looper with nothing done to them, and are mostly first takes.
I've played at Cafe Kino, Ashton Court Festival, Spike Island, The Cube, The Croft, The Lansdown and The Lamb Inn, Trowbridge for Sonic Sanctuary. I am keen to play more gigs, so I can improve, and get rid of my knocking knees.
Enough boring stuff, let me know what you think, and if you fancy collaborating on anything.
Having decided to apply to play the blackout tent at Ashton Court, I got talking to a filmaker called Michael
over My Space, hes agreed to make a short film to go with some of my music. Please check out his My Space to see some excellent examples of his work, and the beginings of a short film to go with my music.. really looking forward to seeing the finished result. If we don't get through to Ashton Court I plan to use it at my Album Launch :)
Visuals for Wipe Clean (excuse the dodgy home demo)
Me and Emma made a jingle for Word of Mouth Radio. You can listen to the show from 9pm-11pm on Monday nights - 93.2fm or listen online bcfm
My album which was completed in May 07 can now be bought online. If you are planning on coming to one of my gigs, or are likely to see me in person, you may as well buy it direct from me and save on the £1.50 postage costs. Also please contact me prior to buying if you are buying from abroad, to arrange postage costs.
Thanks!
Also note the duplication was done by the excellent Matt at Hifi copies, I couldn't reccomend him enough. He's located in Bristol, really fast, good quality/value service click here for info
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.
www.myspace.com/slideshowplayers
www.slideshowplayers.com
An Axe
An Axe are purveyors of brooding melancholia and dark shanty-pop with horrorshow keys, ramshackle percussion and chiming guitars
www.myspace.com/anaxe
Tickets are £4 in adv from Here Shop and Bristol Ticket Shop.
Thought we’d let you know that we’re playing your track "Gently Johnny" and plugging your upcoming Croft gig on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Sunday morning between 1-3am. Hear it live or anytime in the 7 days after broadcast using the on line "Listen Live/Again" feature on the BBC i-Player, there's a link to it from our profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith BBC Radio Bristol Introducing
thanks, thats nice to hear!hope it will work out.. would you have some more ideas/help for gigs for me maybe?- oh yes, i have selfmade 2 eps, "bumblebee behind a tree e.p." from last year and "lonesome cowboy/christmas tree e.p." which is mastered and sounds better,, should we do an exchange maybe? yeay!bests. theresa
thank youuuu! i like your songs too!i am looking for more gigs in the uk for october, so if sam can help me i will come to bristol for sure!!would be ace.all the best. tresvery, theresy.
hi ruth. love 'gently johnny'. i downloaded it, dont do that often so it must be good. very spooky vibe to it for me and your voice really works well. great! p x
Thought we’d let you know that we’re playing your track "Nobody Noticed" and plugging your upcoming Folk House gig on Bristol Uncovered this Sunday morning on BBC Radio Bristol between 1-3am. Hear it live or anytime in the 7 days after broadcast using the on line "Listen Live/Again" feature on the BBC i-Player, there's a link to it from our profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith Bristol Uncovered on BBC Radio Bristol
Thank for finding a little space in your heart for a yodeling banjo player. Yours Cordially, Curtis P. Eller ----- Curtis Eller's American Circus www.curtiseller.com
Hey, check my new Videos. Its all made with a Loopstation, beatbox, Git, Shaker, Melodika,... . First songs of my first Album are uploaded next week:o))) Liebe Gruesse aus Berlin, der Konrad
yeah should be a nice night,im really looking forward to seeing your set, as have miserably failed in getting to any so far,its always exciting when theres a littly in the room, thier noises somehow make everything less serious, i like it. see you soon xx
hi ruth thanks for adding me to your friends. do you know where i need to type the html code for things like background colour? anyhow keep doing what your doing stuart
