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Tom Rodwell & Storehouse

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Tom Rodwell and Storehouse perform wildly original, pastiche-free improvisations drawn from obscure blues, gospel and calypso sources - housewrecking blues, spirituals and otherworldly roots. Always fresh, no bullshit, proper. It's a living. Touring locations since 2003 have included New Zealand, the UK, Switzerland, the USA, Holland and soon your town.
The recordings above have no overdubs or edits or effects of any kind. The songs have no fixed arrangements and are tailor-made for the moment and the evening. Each concert evolves in a unique way, hopefully reaching different points on the response spectrum. You gotta feel, think and dance. "The only content of this music is the feeling," - TR.
QUOTES: "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. "Thanks for making my job a lot harder, man. I was gonna go out there and play a bunch of bullshit, now I actually gotta go do something." - Otis Taylor. "Psychotic gospel music," - Blues in Britain. "I danced so much I can now hardly walk, thanks so much," - DJ Sophie Toes. "The most blistering one man set we've seen," - Gigwise. "Punishing," Sheffield Telegraph. "Raw, avant-garde improvisations," - Metro (NZ). "Real groove, no pretension, zero bullshit, that is rare it seems." - Michael Pickett (Juno Award winner). "Very interesting improvisational / experimental music," - Larry Wines, programmer-producer-host, "Tied to the Tracks", syndicated LA Americana radio show. "Refreshingly different, very genuine and unforced and with a seriously juicy groove," - Giles Hedley and the Aviators. "Been a while since anyone's heard a song quite like that," - BBC World Service, The Beat. "You smooth bastard," - someone in Deptford, London 2008. "I thought it was gonna be slash your wrists shit, but you made me feel like I was driving a Cadillac," - someone in Shoreditch.
Sessions recorded on the following formats: hard disc, wax cylinder, 1 inch reel to reel tape, cassette, dictaphone, telephone answering machine, and soon acetate.
'Merchandisable manifestations' - i.e. CDs and stuff - are soon available from somewhere or other near you, but quite often available at shows.
OFFICIAL SITE: www.tomrodwell.com
BOOKING AND MAILING LIST CONTACT: [email protected]
VIDEO: Live videos of Tom Rodwell and Storehouse can be found at this Youtube site: Storehouse / TR Youtube site
All content copyright © 2008 Tom Rodwell / Storehouse / Fireplace Recordings. All rights reserved.
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Below, Storehouse perform the traditional spiritual "Jesus is on the mainline", live at the Queensferry, December 2005.
Storehouse, Death Letter live in the Wine Cellar

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Below, TR (solo) jamming on the Junior Kimbrough tune "Done Got Old", live at Uncle Sam's, Dalston, London, December 2nd 2006. Co-starring the 149 bus. Filmed by: Kungadred
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Member Since: 06/09/2006
Band Website: www.tomrodwell.com
Band Members: Tom R - guitar, vocals, stomp - box, with friends and collaborators including Joe Pineapple - electric swamp bass, floor - percussion, Shadow (harmonica), Tony Flamingo (tuba), Guest Speaker (drums / percussion), Kealan Gell (cello), Nort (drums), Dangerous Damien H.P. (tabla / percussion) and more...
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Influences: Mississippi Fred McDowell, the Georgia Sea Islands Singers, cave art, Italian shoes.
Sounds Like: Something outside, late at night...
Record Label: FIREPLACE RECORDINGS www.fireplacerecordings.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Back to Wax Revue - Tom Rodwell & Mme Pamita vs the Vulcan Cylinder Record Co. - this MAY!

Well well well,An absurdist thumbing of the nose at the modern music biz, or a primitivist audio fetish? Either way, turning up the central heating leads to better recordings.Miss this at your peril.....
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:37:00 GMT

Check out this event: Tom Rodwell blues + stomp + shimmy this Friday 13th Feb @ The Glad, London

Hosted By:Tom Rodwell & StorehouseWhen:Friday, February 13, 2009Where:The Gladstone Arms64 Lant StreetLondonSE1 1QNDescription:Live housewrecking blues, spirituals, primitivist calypso and more from T...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:07:00 GMT

Feverish and Ramshackle

It's that traditional time of year when the freaks who stay in Auckland for the summer crawl out from underneath their tasty rocks, and stagger blindly to the Wine Cellar, where we are stomping in our...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:32:00 GMT

2007 tour winds up

Howdy howdyThe mind bending Storehouse 2007 Out of the Wilderness tour winds up tomorrow night with a gospel-blues rave-up at The Wine Cellar, our funky old haunt in Auckland, New Zealand. The tour ha...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:48:00 GMT

Gigging

We are gigging like nobody's business. Anyone who has managed to take some photo's or videos (or even sneaky bootlegs), please get in touch and we'll sling the footage up online. Come on up to The Hou...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:34:00 GMT

Booking

Hey folks,We're booking a bunch of gigs around the planet. If you know a venue, agent, promoter, festival, drinking den, Catholic girl's school, grog hut, greyhound track, or vineyard that has the bud...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:17:00 GMT

World Service interview now online

The BBC World Service interview with Tom Rodwell regarding his wax cylinder recording project is now online here, and at www.tomrodwell.com. Many thanks to James Patterson and Mark Coles of The Beat:h...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:31:00 GMT

TR on the BBC and new vid

TR can be heard interviewed on the BBC World Service's show The Beat concerning a new recording project - using 19th century technology. Tom is recording a series of tunes onto the wax cylinder format...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:51:00 GMT

New vid online - TR @ Uncle Sam's '06

A new video of TR performing at Uncle Sam's has been added to this site, via Youtube. Uncle Sam's is a hot little late night club in Daltson, in London's East End, and the show, on the 2nd of December...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:45:00 GMT

New vid, TR live in Sheffield

A new clip of Tom Rodwell performing (solo) a version of the 19th century gospel spiritual Signn of the Judgement, live at the Bath Hotel, 17th December 2006, has been added to this site, via Youtube....
Posted by on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:01:00 GMT