The Voodoo Trombone Quartet

About Me

Hello, I'm Paul from The Voodoo Trombone Quartet.
I made an album that Nick Hollywood, that nice man from Freshly Squeezed, put out. You can buy it at all good record stores, both online and offline, or in digital format for your portable music whatsit at a bunch of places, including iTunes. Here's a handy button that you can click if you want to buy it, which looks like this:
You can also buy our theme tune to MTV's The Paper, which is called "Medium Wave" by pressing this button here:
For more info see: Freshly Squeezed Music .
Some of my music is on compilation albums in Italy and Japan. Some of it has been used as theme tunes to programs on Radio 4 and 6music. Some of it has backed the news on 5Live and the Chelsea highlights on Smooth FM. Some of it got played on the radio and some on TV. Davina McCall has even worked out before and after her pregnancy to the VTQ. Some of my music made people tap their fingers on the train or in their car. And some of it even got people to dance in nightclubs.
And now I have a proper band with real people too. I've got my old friends Frank and Matt playing drums and bass, Liz Mitchell on saxophone, Nathan Thomas on French horn, Chris "Spesh" Maloney on guitar, Richard Watts on trumpet and Patrick Symes on trombone. We've played at all kinds of places including Ronnie Scotts, Glastonbury and Bestival.
So, I'm working on another album now. It's taking a while, but it will be champion when it's finished.
Paul.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/24/2006
Band Website: voodootrombonequartet.com
Band Members: Paul Thorpe (keys, vox)
Influences:Can, Kraftwerk, Suicide, Northern Soul, Herbie Hancock, Bobbie Gentry, Scott Walker, Tindersticks, Stooges, MC5, Joy Division, Tortoise, The Czars, Papa M, Spacemen 3, Loop, Henry Mancini, Television, John Barry, Barry Adamson, Steroid Maximus, Count Basie, Captain Beefheart, Big Black, Skatalites, King Tubby, Lee Perry, Scientist, Lounge Lizards, Prince Buster, The Specials, John Zorn, David Holmes, DJ Shadow, Prefuse 73, David Bowie, Pere Ubu, PiL, 5th Dimension, Astrid Gilberto, Dusty Springfield, United States of America, Delia Derbyshire, Mike Ladd, Bill Withers, Wilson Pickett, Booker T & the MGs, Moondog, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Steve Reich, John Adams, Sonic Youth, Lambchop, Slint, Wire, Beta Band, High Llamas, Stereolab, Donald Byrd, Billy Cobham, Horace Andy and a bunch of other stuff that I can't recall right now and would in any case be just too much information.
Record Label: Freshly Squeezed Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

MTV’s The Paper

Once again, we continue our bid to soundtrack the weird and wonderful. Following on from the likes of Ugly Betty, Radio 4 comedy shows and Davina MaColl's pre and post-pregnancy workout, "Medium Wave"...
Posted by The Voodoo Trombone Quartet on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:37:00 PST

2008

er...happy new year! Bit late, but there we go. Coupla updates - did some great gigs at Bestival and in Lyme Regis. Also played an interesting (if a little tipsy) date in Covent Garden. And "Eastern W...
Posted by The Voodoo Trombone Quartet on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:10:00 PST

Fully hosed down

Well! Quite a weekend then. Thanks to everyone who made it to see us at Glastonbury - it was much fun indeed. I just have to scrub down the drumkit in time for The Larmer Tree in a couple of weeks, wh...
Posted by The Voodoo Trombone Quartet on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:31:00 PST

Glasto a-go-go

I'm soiling myself with excitement here. We're playing two sets in the Ballroom at Lost Vagueness. The first on Friday at 2pm is also the launch of the fantabulous Lost Vagueness complilation which fe...
Posted by The Voodoo Trombone Quartet on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:23:00 PST

Radio 4

Went to see the recording of a pilot for a new Radio 4 comedy sketch show written by Kevin Eldon (Big Train, Nighty Night) which is using Eastern Wanderer as the theme tune. It's called "The Things Sh...
Posted by The Voodoo Trombone Quartet on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:41:00 PST

VTQ workout

Watched Davina McCall working out to the strains of the VTQ last night. Very strange indeed. She stretches and flexes to various tracks from the debut LP along with a bunch of other tracks from the Fr...
Posted by The Voodoo Trombone Quartet on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:10:00 PST