We may not be together anymore, but we're still happy to share the music that we created over a nine month period with you. Although every musical effort may not be successful, this one was at least meaningful to the handful of folks who really dug it. We'd like to extend very sincere gratitude to the people who made our brief run possible, and as well an invitation to new fans to embrace the manic insanity that was once TBC. At least you can rock out in your car to it, okay? Thanks, folks.
Tricycle Bicycle Cycle can include any or all of the following:Emily Caffee - mandolin Allison Caldwell - vocals Chris Caldwell - vocals, guitar, bass, percussion Kevin Carducci - slide guitar Sean Hannan - noise-smithery, ukulele, theremin Bob Hartung - guitar and related noise-smithery Kate Ickes - keyboards, flute, bass, toys Kevin Kearney - drums, percussion Ryan Meek - drums, vocals, violin, guitar Ryan Murray - vocals, guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, sitar, toys Andy Sherwood - vocals, organ, glockenspiel Mike Stanish - vocals, accordion, tambourine, ukulele Tram - bass, vocals, percussion Johnny James Weeks - drums, percussion
Influences
As of now, Tricycle Bicycle Cycle exists in a non-physical universe, exploring the depths of the unknown within our own minds. Please feel free to keep up your support for the physical state of TBC, for you can never be sure when a return from the unreal might take place. Peace to all y'all.
Tricycle Bicycle Cycle is the bastard child of psychedelic rock, powerpop song structures, and our own current generational energy that flows between the various extremes of the band's musical influences.
Not merely willing to be pinned down as a "pop" band, Tricycle Bicycle Cycle includes a vast spectrum of stylistic choices, which in turn shape the band itself. The more diverse the project becomes, the more diverse its output, and vice versa.
The individuals who make up Tricycle Bicycle Cycle are both aware of and are currently emotionally involved in many different forms, categories, and understandings of the term "music." Furthermore, each member has a unique grab bag of mind-bending experiences and fleeting moments of wisdom which contribute to the overall sound that the group achieves.
The synthesis of these radically different perspectives has come to create the sometimes-angelic, sometimes-bestial creature of pure beauty known to the world merely as Tricycle Bicycle Cycle.
In fact, Tricycle Bicycle Cycle is almost hardly a band, and almost entirely a collective effort of thought which is employed in a manner that relies heavily on individual, over-the-top expressions of joy and happiness. This wealth of emotional expression that Tricycle Bicycle Cycle broadcasts overcomes the melancholia and depressive outlooks of much of today's "fine art," and embraces the spontaneous, ecstatic, and invigorating parts of our lives that we "love", while acknowledging that "all may not be well." Paranoia only leads to vapidity and carelessness in terms of honest self expression, a personal and collective goal of Tricycle Bicycle Cycle, and thus an artistic leaning towards celebration and glee is employed so that the collective may continue to produce in exciting new creative forms.
In short, Tricycle Bicycle Cycle is an ever-expanding, ever-changing, ever-whatever band of motley performers who find it difficult to rectify the supposition that there is a difference between being a band and a performance art troupe; and do so without exasperating the current socio-musical climate through the coverage of violent, pronographic, or drug-related images, but seek to focus on the grander things of life: the magical secrets of the universe; the cosmic interrelation of all creatures, as well as the recognition of distinctions within all matter; and the personal forms of expression that identify those that are having the experience with those that are fervently creating such an experience.
The general outcome of such a process is the creation of a deep love, one that allows both parties to recognize each other simply for what they are: semi-divine creatures walking the thin line of a consciousness shift that will catapult our world and all that we know into a higher pitch of intensity and brilliance. So, it is our pleasure that without further adieux, we may bring you the supreme glory, flat notes and all, of TRICYCLE BICYCLE CYCLE!
Dear Friends and/or Lovers of Tricycle Bicycle Cycle,
The Tricycle is the unedited, joyful, creative play and wonderment
of childhood. The Bicycle is the adolescent, self-aware, performative act of identity-formation. We endeavor to engage in a constant Cycle between the two, growing from one to the other and cycling back again!
The Tricycle Bicycle Cycle is an absurd vehicle, a multi-wheeled chimaera. We employ preposterous means to get where we want to go!
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Folks, is it cooler to be honest in this section, to explain your intentions as a group and say something like, "I just don't know why people like us," etc; or is it better to put up the facade of a performative troupe of gurus and shamans, travelling the land in search of a better place for both mind and spirit? We here at Tricycle Bicycle Cycle believe in compromise! Synthesis! The Spirit of Giving! Therefore, we've compiled a list of FOUR universal facts concerning our band, our intentions, and our loves.
01. Tricycle Bicycle Cycle is built on the premise that fun is had, whether by us, or those gleefully engaged in our whimsical dance of life, or both. Either way, we're pretty cool with it.
02. Tricycle Bicycle Cycle does not believe that our music should cost a cent. Therefore, the collection of recordings associated with the band can be obtained at www.tricyclebicyclecycle.org for just about as free as free can be!
03. Tricycle Bicycle Cycle is an entire experience, not only a commercial commodity. The commercial products of Tricycle Bicycle Cycle are manufactured as limited-edition pressings of media, which have inherent value as artifacts, as well as works of art. The cost for such items and works is meant to merely cover the production costs.
04. Tricycle Bicycle Cycle is for all of us. Don't keep it to yourself. In fact, give it to people like the plague. Mom's especially seem to like us. We have that edgy 45-year-old housewife market totally cornered, I guess. So tell your Mom, okay? Immediately!
...And I'm sad to say this concludes our time together. I hope you've enjoyed learning about Tricycle Bicycle Cycle as much as I have! So until next time, keep listening boys and girls, and we promise to keep you on your toes!
We, the Men and Women of Tricycle Bicycle Cycle, Thank You for Your Time, Consideration, and Love!!!
Hi! Thanks a lot for your friendship! our cd is out, you can order it by sending us a message! have a nice and happy time, and dont believe the propaganda... Here our latest video...Love and Space!
Whoop whoop we're coming to America! We hope you can catch one of our shows... OCTOBER TOUR 12th - BOSTON (venue TBC) 13th - NEW YORK The Cake Shop 14th - PHILADELPHIA The M Room 16th - CLEVELAND The Beachland Tavern 17th - YPSILANTI (Near Detroit) The Elbow Room 18th - GRAND RAPIDS The Intersection 19th - CHICAGO Schubas 20th - ST LOUIS CBGBs 21st - PITSBURGH (venue TBC) 22nd - BROOKLYN Spike Hill (CMJ) 23rd - NEW YORK The Cake Shop (CMJ) 25th - BROOKLYN The Yard
This will be the first and last time we play in any of these places so we hope you can make it!
LISTEN TO THE NEW SINGLE "DREAMER", WRITTEN, SANG,PRODUCED, RECORDED MIXED AND MASTERED BY PITTSBURGH'S OWN BORN AND RAISED, THE HITMAKER. LEAVE YOUR FEEDBACK IN A COMMENT AND POST IT IN YOUR PAGE WHEN YOU LIKE IT TO SHOW SUPPORT. THANKS!
And what if this comment elected existence,
in forms more befitting than electric presence,
perhaps you might view it as four passing clouds,
that could coalesce in light-as-air roads,
and prove that a path need not be so heavy,
as custom convinces us that it thus must be.
Hi! With the release of 'Based On A True Story' on May 25th (GERMANY), 28th (UK), and JUNE 4th (FRANCE), I'm pleased to invite you to our launch parties in the UK and to check the album out on iTunes!
'Based On A True Story' AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY ON iTUNES AND WWW.PADDYMILNER.COM NOW! Click here for Paddy's music on iTunes
**LONDON ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY** May 31st, Pizza on the Park, Hyde Park Corner, London, 8pm. With the full 7 piece band. See www.pizzaexpresslive.com or call 020 7734 3220 for tickets and further information.
For those in the South West, come down to my home town of Dorchester
June 2nd, Dorchester Corn Exchange, Dorset, DT1. With the full 7 piece band + support from Tom Caulfield & The Root Doctors. Phone 01305 852773 for tickets (8/5quid student concessions).
TBC will always be remembered, and so will the show at PD's PUB! keep on truckin' , guys, and stay 4-1-TRUE!! and to Mr. Caldwell, you may be good at Mario Kart, BUT I STRAIGHT UP GRILLED YOU AT GOLDENEYE!!!!
I have heard of you, let's say, through the grapevine, and have a serious request to make of you. My husband is turning 115 years old this December, and I was wondering if you folks would be interested in being the house band for his B-Day Party. The pay is shit, he stinks like rotten eggs and dead cats, and sexual relations with our great grandchildren is explicitly forbidden, but otherwise, is sounds like the perfect venue for your madcappery and the like. Let me know, okay? My number is (412)-XXX-XXXX (ommitted, so as to protect the one shred of sanity this woman seems to have left), and my name is Roxanne. Call me for a good time. I mean my husband's party. Ahem.
hey tricycle bicycle cycle...we finally got our new album, the way back home, in (despite a wee bit of drama...but what's life without a little drama)...amy
So I heard a rumor that you guys might be having a dontations-only, topless car wash sometime this winter, and I was interested in joining up. Anybody else?
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