The Toretz Live Endorse-It Festival 2007
The Toretz Live at the beautiful days festival 2006
Influences
Lee Harris - The Blockheads, “We loved your show. You guys are without doubt the most suitable band we have been matched with over the last 5 years... We should find a way of doing it again.”
John Turnbull –The Blockheads, “I had a splendid night at the phoenix, you sounded and looked really good, great energy, plus twas good to see your fans singing along. I hope we do some gigs together in the future, Best to you”
DJ Ambiessence - Future Sound of Exeter, “...Tor and his Toretz have jazzy vibe with a hint of drumn'n'bass, a good dose of Ian Dury-style vocals, and a strange liking for submarine wildlife”
Adrian Evans -Thames Festival Director, said: “The Toretz are incredibly lively, visual and entertaining..”
David Whitelock – Exeter’s Vibraphonic Festvial, "I thought the Toretz were great, they took me back to the angst of 77 threw in a bit of hows yer father and kept a big smile on my face from start to finish"
Scott Williams – Efestivals, “Terrific stuff, entertaining knees up and songs with a message, guaranteed to put a smile on your face!
Dick Lucas – The Subhumans / Culture Shock, “bouncy punky skanky humourous serious singalong festy music”
Pax Nindi - Senior Carnival Arts Officer, Arts Council England, “……The Toretz walk-around band was very entertaining and original in its presentation”
Polyp - New Internationalist, “… refreshingly rude, political, and funny”
Mary Ball -Lyme Regis Radio, “…The Toretz put on a very friendly performance, lots of audience repartee and great songs to join in with.”
Fuego Street party – Lyme Regis, “They put on a great show, playing original songs, and had people dancing all over the streets.”
Paul Docherty - The Cosmic Roughriders, “…lyrical energy of Ian Dury and Madness combined with some trippy groves, I couldn’t stop smiling throughout the set …”
Betty - Single Mum from Exeter, “…My kids love it! we listen to them every day!”
madness, specials, prong horn, selector, zion train, cracked actors, gong, drum n bass, ian dury and the blockheads, the beat, ivor cutler, sid james and the carry on team, asian dub foundation, the subhumanz, LTJ Bukem, nouvel vague, frank zappa, parliament, funkadelic, mr scruff, herbalizer, pendulum, crass, conflict, RDF, stereo mc's, the clash, hawkwind, here and now, conflict, specials, porn, clacton on sea, essex girls, free parties, festivals, carpet sellers, fish, squirrels, badgers, football, radishes, iguna's and bizarre facts !!!!!!!!!!
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Sounds Like
madness, ian dury, sid james, gong, and hell loads of stuff all orginal material
The Toretz were an eclectic collective of musicians and misfits playing a mix of 'Oompah- Ska', Swing, Jazz'n'Bass. They came from a range of musical background such as jazz, drum and bass, and punk. They where described as DrumnBass meets Sid James, Ian Dury & Madness.
Tor Rubble used to do stand up poetry on the London circuit and in 2002 he got his first home computer and started adding music to his poems He started gigging by himself with just a laptop to accompany him, performing at several local venues as well as Glastonbury Festival and Big Green Gathering, He then decided to get a full band around his songs having written an albums worth of material. In 2004 he then started The Toretz Introducing live drums, bass, guitar, keys, clarinet, sax, and sometimes trombone and trumpet to make a drum n bass ska punk band. In a very short time together they built up a great reputation and played along side some huge acts. Unfortunately the band split in 2007
The Toretz supported The Blockheads, Asian Dub Foundation, The Subhumans, Bad Manners, The Planet Smashers, LTJ Bukem, Los Albertos, Prong Horn, Nik Turner (x hawkwind), Here and Now (x Gong), Kid TV, The Duckworths, Too Hot, Self Abuse, Freaks Union, Dirty Protest, Obedient Bone and many more
Places they played included
Vibraphonic Festival, Beautiful Days Festival, 3 times at The Endorse-It Festival , The Plymouth Punx Picinic, Air Fusion Festival, Fuegos Street Party Lyme Regis The Thames Festival Night Carnival, Phoenix Art Centre, Vibrophonic Fm 106.2
If you like what Tor did with the Toretz, you should check out his new project Trouble & Mischief
The Toretz supported The Blockheads 10th March 2007 as part of Exeter's Vibraphonic Festival.
Here is what The Blockheads had to say "We loved your show. You guys are without doubt the most suitable band we have been matched with over the last 5 years... We should find a way of doing it again.
Smiles are the order of the day in the Wildcat Tent on my first visit to it all day, why? Well Toretz are raisin the roof with their theme tune Carry On and ska flavoured jazz, drum and bass. Yup hard to pigeon hole but hugely entertaining to watch
Here is the review from when The Toretz supported Asian Dub Foundation from Kuhlmuisk
Only one act tonight came close to scaling a similar broad eclectic landscape as ADF. Exeter Septet The Toretz stormed the auditorium, spitting out urban poetry, disco-ska, 70s porno-funk homages, carnivalesque jazz, fish-themed hip-hop and other weird and wonderful musical scraps their imaginations could muster. Vocalist Tor's semi-drunken cockney swagger kept the bodies in the room airborne while the musicianship springing from genre-hopping jams of the band was suitably dazzling.
The Toretz first released, a 5-track EP 2 Rude 4 Radio in June 2004, which gave a good cross-section of their live set, featuring the unusual brass/wind section of clarinet, saxophone, trombone and (occasionally) flute & included Clacton, Garden Party, SXTXTPST:), A-Z of Sexual Deviance (or A-Z of Animals for the younger Audiences) and a bonus track Applelist
The Toretz second CD "Your Cleanliness Disgust Me" was mostly recorded live in two days at ABH records. It captures the lively and humorous Toretz sound. Amidst the humour, the Toretz inject some serious political satire. Renowned cartoonist Polyp POLYP or www.uhc-collective.org.uk, as featured in the New Internationalist, gave Tor kind permission to the use his artwork 'Spotless' for the promotional cover (see above). Polyp has described the Toretz as 'refreshingly political, funny and rude'
This a review of Your Cleanliness Disgust Me from Hysteria Magazine 03 Eyes on Exeter
These Exeter based ska/jazz/D'n'B/every-genre-you-can-think-of wackos crank up the brassy hooks, chuck out the kitsch guitar runs, and blurt scatological comedy lyrics in this grotesquely kooky 3-minute marathon.
Taking its cues from the likes of Ian Dury and yesteryear TV themes (think The Pink Panther meets The Jetsons), and mixing it up with beat poetry and rock, "Your Cleanliness Disgusts Me" is a polemically-charged romp 'n' rant against the clinical capitalist cynicism of the modern era.
With a thrashing DIY punk chorus, sax and clarinet duals to snag your ears on, and lines that will keep you chuckling, this is a colourful and rare local treat. Best sampled live - at a venue near you.
Thanks to all the fans and the audiences, promoters, venues and festivals along the way, whom with out none it would ever happen
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