TORTOISE HEAD PLATOON
Alternative / Funk / Rock
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"We’ve Gone On Holiday, Back soon!"
Newcastle,
Australia
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| Member Since | 9/3/2006 | | Band Website | tortoiseheadplatoon.com | | Band Members | For Booking Inquiries, Please Email
band@tortoiseheadplatoon.com
Alternatively you can send the band a message through myspace,
Kel White- Bass, Vocals,
Russ' McCauley- Guitar,
Ben Robertson--Drums,
| | Influences | Ashplatter,
Extreme,
Incubus,
Pornography Soundtracks,
| | Sounds Like | "...Like a bastard child of Parliament, Funkadelic and
every pub rock band on the planet, this three piece can
really put on a damn fine rock show. The front man and
4 string thumper goes from cooing falsetto and slinky
jazz vocals to growling rock monster in the blink of an eye,
all the while plucking, tapping, strumming and beating away
on his bass like the damn thing owed him rent money.
The guitarist flew the gamut - blinding grandiose solos,
modest bluesy licks, rudimentary funk chops and driving
rock riffery fit to peel paint; while the drummer barely
broke a sweat, filling every hole and tying every wayward
movement down with such precision and ease, you'd have
believed they were playing 'Smoke on the Water'.
Crowd interaction was at its peak, with several punters
at various points joining the band to sing along like pirates,
hug each other and sway, or just generally thrust about.
The band even got beckoned to do an encore and responded
by calling a chorus of crowd members to join them on stage
and sing along. What a way to end a show..."
| | Record Label | Independant, | | Type of Label | None |
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| About TORTOISE HEAD PLATOON |
T*H*P ARE CURRENTLY ON A BREAK. TO SORT THEIR FUNK OUT
They are a musical frankenstein, thick lashings of deep set grooves and
catching melodies homespun and stitched together, somewhat ugly, somehow enchanting. But it’s only when you see them live you realise it’s safe to say it. Tortoise H*E*A*D Platoon is an accident, a one of a kind musical oddity. Too strange to keep, too rare to lose.
Everything from funk, blues, jazz, rock, country and even metal all fall into line beneath the hands and minds of Newcastle based band, T*H*P. Focused and confident as they strut their stuff on stage, flinging wild energy about with reckless abandon, one can’t help but wonder how such technical complexity can be matched with such enthusiasm.
But as unlikely as it seems, none of what is now known as T*H*P was planned on. It happened completely by chance when Sam Abbott (drums) stumbled across Kel White (bass, vocals) in a recording studio in june 2006. Completey unaware of each others ability they decided to get together for a jam. But something was still lacking. So hand picked completely at random one hour before sam and Kel’s next jam, Ben ’Russel’ McCauley
was thrown into the mix.
Finding that while their musical backgrounds were completely dissimilar from one another they shared a common interest in empowering audiences with positive energy, and bringing fun, excitement and enjoyment back into live music. So, to get the job done, (and drawing influence from their various backgrounds,) the trio cobbled together it’s own genre,
"manic ronk(rock/funk)"
No limitations, no preconceptions.
You’ll just have to see it for yourself.
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