Tom Rodwell & Storehouse

"Housewrecking Worldwide Since '03"


Damo Tom Art @ EDT 2009
Live at Dr King's Jailhouse, London '09. Pic © Rachel Gutek.

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NEWS:
May - June 2010 -
Icelandic volcano forces operations to remain in the South Pacific for the next couple of months.  Watch the skies for further updates about northern hemisphere action, as scheming is underway for an extensive Euro tour in late 2010. 

Four-songs and multiple daft stories recently recorded for Radio New Zealand, available to stream (via Windows Media Player) online: Here



Storehouse hut
ABOUT:
Uncompromisingly raw bohemian hybrid-blues music from TR & Storehouse, who prize a stark 'documentary' aesthetic, with overdub-free recordings and no fixed live arrangements, yet boast bizarrely entertaining, intense and dancefloor-friendly marathon shows.   Musical reference points include slave-era spiritu
als, Alan Lomax field recordings, calypso music, and all varieties of mean blues.  Keen listeners may detect subversiveness, and while there is conscious experimentation with the form, the real intention is to do justice to this music and communicate the range of emotions and integrity it carries.  The feeling is the only real content.

DIY tours and residencies include everything from horse race tracks on the beach to hipster bars, galleries and kooky festivals in the UK, USA, Holland, Switzerland and New Zealand, averaging over 100 shows per year since 2003, offering audiences intimate excursions into the mysterious world of actual real-time musical performance.  Rodwell's festival appearances include:  Wellington International Jazz Festival (99, 07), Concrete and Glass (London 08), Lovebox Weekender (London 07), Quellrock (Switzerland, 09), Colne Great British R&B Festival (05), Spitz One Man Band Fest (London 06), Tauranga International Jazz & Blues Festival (04), Spitz Festival of the Blues @ Kings Place (London 09), Tramlines (Sheffield 09), Borderline (Auckland 08) and a bunch more...

Storehouse members include TR - vocals, guitar, foot-stomping - plus various friends in various places including Damian Immigration (percussion), Art Terry (piano, accordian), Joe Pineapple (bass), Shadow (harmonica), Guest Speaker (percussion), Tony Flamingo (tuba and percussion), Jonathan Mohr (double bass), Isaac Smith (double bass), Dr Nick (trombone), Mr Mel (bass), Mr Guy (snare), and Huey Gower (cello).

"Thanks for making my job a lot harder man. I was gonna go out there and play a bunch of bullshit, now I gotta go out there and do something," - Otis Taylor.

"Seriously juicy groove,"  -Giles Hedley.

"Much funkier than the alternative," - Little George Sueref.


    TR
 Live in Burngreave Cemetery Chapel, Sheffield UK '08.


MUSIC:
Yes.  Visit www.myspace.com/storehousemusic for streaming samples.  Physical products coming soon, and frequently available at gigs.
Label & publisher: Fireplace Recordings.
Tom Rodwell's wax cylinder recordings are available - on wax cylinder - directly from www.phonographcylinders.com

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LIVE DATES -
Due to the erratic business practices of venues, it is advisable always confirm date with venue before travelling...

JUNE 2010 - NZ
Friday 11 June - Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - LATE SHOW / 10.30pm > late / $10
Saturday 12 June - Auckland City Farmers Market, Britomart, Auckland Central, 9am > 12pm
Tuesday 15 June -
Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 8.30pm / $10
Friday 18 June - Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 9pm / $10
Saturday 19 June - w/ Stick Ninja for Pirate City Rollers Afterparty - Whammy Bar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 9pm / $10
Wednesday 23 June - Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 8.30pm / $10

JULY 2010 - NZ
Saturday 3rd July -
Verona, K'Rd, Newton, Auckland - 8pm / no cover
Sunday 4th July - Naval & Family, K'Rd, Newton, Auckland, 4pm > 7pm / no cover
Sat 10 July - w/ The Mercenaries, Leigh Sawmill
, Leigh 9pm / $10
Wed 21 July -
Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 8.30pm / $10
Saturday 24 July - Auckland City Farmers Market, Britomart, Auckland Central, 9am > 12pm
Sat 31 July Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 8.30pm / $10

AUGUST 2010 - NZ
Wed 4 Aug - TBA
Thu 12 Aug - TBA
Tues 17 Aug -
Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 8.30pm / $10
Fri 27 Aug -
Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 8.30pm / $10


 




           

PRESS:
"Rodwell manages to eschew the cliches that beset blues music. By turns wild, angry, hypnotic and sensual, it's as uncompromising as it is funky and some of the best live music I've seen." Blues in London.

"Tom Rodwell is Sheffield's answer to Lightnin' Hopkins,” - NME.

"Soul-probing... Raw, avant-garde improvisations," - Metro (NZ).

"Psychotic gospel music," - Blues in Britain.

"Been a while since anyone's heard a song quite like that," - BBC World Service, The Beat.

"Serving up eclectic, foot-stompin' alt.blues and visceral neo-spirituals" - Time Out May 2009

"The most blistering one man set we've seen," - Gigwise.

"Punishing," Sheffield Telegraph.



ONLINE INTERVIEWS
Sound on Sound profiles Rodwell and Duncan Miller on wax cylinder recording - here.
Pro Sound News Europe covers the cylinder project here.
Blues in London
profiles the Back to Wax Revue here.
Blues in London reviews Tom Rodwell at the Spitz back in 2006 here.


MEDIA AND VENUE RESOURCES
:
Hi-res publicity picture here.
Generic poster (pdf) here.
A poster (4MB jpg) of an octopus here.

Email for stage plots and other hi-res pix.


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CONTACT:

For all press, booking, licensing and mailing list enquiries email: tomrodwell.music @ gmail.com




GALLERY:


 DHP TR AT @ The Glad 09

  Wax cylinder  wax recording session 

TR & Joe Pineapple   slide

TR in Croydon?  TR in Wellington

   

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Old dates archive (from Sept 09)

September 2009 - England.
Fri 4th Sept - Spitz Festival of the Blues, King's Place, York Way, London. 8.45pm / £4.50
Sun 6th Sept - Coach & Horses, Sheffield Rd, Dronfield, Derbyshire. 8pm - late
Fri 11th Sept - TBA theatre performance, Battersea, London
Wed 16th Sept - Frog and Parrot, Division Street, Sheffield, 9pm.
Thurs 17th Sept - Harlequin, Nursery St, Sheffield, 8.30pm.
Fri 18th Sept - Brooks Blues Bar @ the Telegraph, Putney, London. 8pm / £10, with Giles Hedley.
Tue 22nd Sept - Multiple Choice, Leeds
Sat 26th Sept - Private Function
Sun 27th Sept - Matsu, Mile End, London, w/ David Garside & Art Terry

October 2009 - Switzerland & England.
Fri 2nd Oct - The Glad Stone, Lant St, Borough, London. 8.30pm.
Sat 3rd Oct - The Alma, 95 Church Rd, Crystal Palace, London
Thurs 8th Oct - Krempel, Buchs SG, Switzerland.
Fri 9th Oct - Le Mouton Noir, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Sat 8th Oct - Transformateur, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Fri 16th Oct - Birds Nest, Deptford, London.
Wed 21st Oct -
Frog and Parrot, Division Street, Sheffield, 9pm.
Thurs 22nd Oct -
Harlequin, Nursery St, Sheffield, 8.30pm.
Sunday 25th Oct - The George and Dragon, Doncaster Rd, Whitley, near Goole, North Yorkshire, DN14 OHY, 5pm
Tuesday 27th Oct - Wick at Both Ends, Sheffield UK, 8.30pm
Thurs 29th Oct - University Arms, Brook Hill, Sheffield UK, 8pm.
Sat 31st Oct - TR with Art Terry and Leila Adu at the Rude Shipyard, Abbeydale Rd, Sheffield.


November 2009 - England, USA, New Zealand.
Sun 1st Nov - The Rude Shipyard, Abbeydale Rd, Sheffield, UK 8pm.
Tues 3rd Nov -
Wick at Both Ends, Sheffield UK, 8.30pm
Fri 6th Nov - Dr King's Jailhouse @ TBA, East Dulwich, London UK.
Thurs 12th Nov - Hyperion Tavern, Los Angeles CA, USA
Weds 18th Nov - Cinema Bar
Thurs 19th Nov - Taix, Los Angeles, CA - midnite special
Sat 21st Nov - The Speakeasy, Salt Lake City, Utah
Sun 22nd Nov - The Taproom, Salt Lake City, Utah
Sat 28 Nov - The Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 9PM / $10

December 2009 - New Zealand.
Fri 4th Dec - The Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 9PM / $10
Fri 11th Dec -
The Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 9PM / $10
Mon 14th Dec - Vitamin S, Wine Cellar
Wed 16th Dec - w/ 10 Acre Bloc, Whammy Bar
Fri 18th Dec -
The Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 9PM / $10
Wed 23 Dec - Wine Cellar w/ Isaac Smith


January 2010 - NEW ZEALAND
Thurs 7th Jan - Storehouse @ Wine Cellar, K'Rd, Auckland, 9pm > late / $10
Wed 13th Jan - Storehouse @ Wine Cellar, K'Rd, Auckland, 9pm > late / $10
Sat 23 Jan - private function
Sat 30th Jan - Storehouse @ Wine Cellar, K'rd, Auckland, 9pm > late / $10

February 2010 - NZ
Tues 2nd Feb - TBA
Wed 3rd Feb - TBA
Thurs 4th Feb - Watusi, 6 Edward St, Te Aro, 
Wellington / 9pm $10
Sat 5th Feb - private function, Wellington
Fri 6th Feb - TR & Friends at  Fred's Sound and Light Exploration Society, 46 Frederick Street, Wellington

Fri 12th Feb - Storehouse @ Wine Cellar, K'Rd, Auckland, 9pm > late / $10
Fri 19th Feb -
Storehouse @ Wine Cellar, K'Rd, Auckland, 9pm > late / $10
Thurs 25th Feb - Storehouse @ Wine Cellar, K'Rd, Auckland, 9pm > late / $10

March 2010 - NZ
Thurs 4th March -  Mighty Mighty, 104 Cuba St, Wellington 9pm, w/Control 6580 Radiophonic Blues Ensemble
Fri 5th March - Happy, 118 Tory Street, Wellington
, 9pm, w/ Crown Julz and the 24 Karats and Big Box Man
Sat 6th March - Pool Party
Tue 9th March -
Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, 9pm / $10
Sat 13th March - Auckland City Farmers Market, 9am
Fri 19th March - Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, 9pm / $10
Sat 20th March - Matakana Farmers Market, 8am
Sat 20th March - Private Function, Matakana, 6pm
Sun 21st March - Auckland Domain Band Rotunda, 2pm

April 2010 - NEW ZEALAND
Fri 1 April - TBC
Friday 9th April - "Music of a Thousand Lovers" Auckland Town Hall, Queen Street - 8.30pm - 11.30pm
www.buytickets.co.nz or on 0800 Buy Tickets, w/ Lisa Crawley, Drab Doo Riffs, Tourettes, Steve Abel, Lubin Rains, Dust Palace, Broken Heart Breakers & more...

Wed 14th April - The Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 9PM / $10
Fri 30th April -
The Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'Rd, Auckland, NZ - 9PM / $10

May 2010 - NZ
Thurs 13 May - Sugar, York St, Newmarket, AKL, NZ, 7.30pm
Sat 15 May - Wine Cellar, K'Rd, Auckland / 9pm > late / $10
Sun 16 May - The Lumsden, Newmarket, Auckland, 3.30pm > 6pm
Sat 22 May - Private Function
Thurs 27 May
-
Wine Cellar, K'Rd, Auckland / 9pm > late / $10