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About Me

torc, the three-piece band featuring vocalist Marlo [Japan, Philippines, Phoenix (Arizona), Germany, coupla years in different United States, Ireland (14 years)], Fran Long and Ken Crotty [Dublin] are taking their studio-based urban guitar fusions to venues in Ireland.Formed by veteran musicians Fran Long and Ken Crotty torc was conceived as a project producing music that reflects the multitude of influences they share, from soul, funk & jazz to pop, hip-hop and dance music producing a distinctive sound of seedy guitars mixed with the sultry tones of vocalist Marlo. torc shapes and flirts with bold questions and dark, honest truths that turn down suspicious corners, peek behind thick private walls, and lead you around unsuspecting bends that just never seem to quite go away. Their very unique modern sound centers around a magnificent, bold and blue-blooded voice that flaunts and demurely teases, and that perfectly suits their own musically fascinating, distraught and narcotically estranged character; then dares you to follow along on their very different kind of reality ride. Their music is apt to amp you up a bit, but not likely to let you down.torc's debut EP 'Grace' features some of the tracks on their MySpace page. 'Torc bring a touch of sophistication to their musical adventures...with snazzy guitars and an impressive vocal' Jackie Hayden - Hot Press March 2009 ‘Grace’ is a soulful, emotional, graceful, and powerful E.P. which won’t let you go for a while. Sarah (L.E.G. March 2009) ..

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Member Since: 30/05/2006
Band Website: noisehead.com/mypage/torc
Band Members: Marlo (vocals), Ken Crotty (bass), Fran Long (guitars)
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Influences: Frans guitar influences; Mick Ronson, Rory Gallagher, Toni Iommi, Scott Gorham & Brian Robertson, Michael Karoli, Billy Gibbons, Lindsey Buckingham, Peter Green, Steve Turner & Mark Arm, Dave Murray & Adrian Smith, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmi Page, Carlos Santana.....Ken's influences-Krishnamurti, Lao Tse, Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, - my medication-, my inability to articulately express myself & my emotional states, Edward Said, Foucault, the old testament, classics...I better stop there the list is endless.....Marlo's influences-In no particular order-ANYTHING THAT MOVES MY SOUL, All the music I've ever listened to where people play/sing/self-express from ALL their Heart and Soul (Here are just a few: PJ Harvey, Curtis Mayfield, Talking Heads/David Byrne, old stuff from David Bowie, remember The Forgotten Songs of David R. Jones? Nina Simone, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Electric Six, Billie Holiday, Marlena Shaw, old stuff from The Cure, and SO MANY MORE), My Mother (Queen of My Universe), Every experience I've ever had, My extreme sensitivty, God/Goddess, the voices in my head, the human condition, Conversations With God (book 1-by Neale Donald Walsch), which lead me to my own conversatons with God, The mental health team that saved my life in 2004, and Raul, Fran and Ken who move my soul and have given me a true awakening and realization of myself and my destiny....
Sounds Like: like nothing you've heard before
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Monday before a budget..depressing or what....

Well, after a week off we're back in to start on the new album and the newer material that we haven't had a chance to work into the live set because of the Whelan's and Tower release dates. The reason...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:58:00 GMT

Limerick Event Guide Review EP

Those Really nice people at the Limerick Event Guide had a listen to our EP and this is what they had to say: (oh and they gave us 4.5 out of 5) torc are a three-piece with vocalist Marlo, bassist Ken...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:17:00 GMT

EP launch Sat 7th March

Whelans (Wexford St) is the place to be on Sat 7th March (doors 8pm) when torc play their first gig of 2009 and launch their new EP Grace which features four tracks including the title track Grace and...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:14:00 GMT

Torc play BalconyTV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyLwsuNlVZc torc play BalconyTV dublin on a cold rainy windy night. We nearly lost the presenter Pauline in a Mary Poppins style incident while she tried t...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:36:00 GMT

we were introduced by Tom Robinson on BBC radio

we  were introduced by Tom Robinson on BBC radio6 on Nov24 apparently you can hear it  via the Listen Again links at http://www.bbc.co.uk/6musicintroducing for 7 days after transmission. Now...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:55:00 GMT

The Silent Disease...

Thinking - The Silent Disease* It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more tha...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:33:00 GMT

Gigs

Following up on the last post, if anyone wants more lyrics posted or to make comment on any of the lyrical content just send me a message and I'll post more-it's Friday, here's hoping we all have...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:32:00 GMT

Re: Lyrical Content

Just in response to the person that I was speaking to at the last gig who suggested that I was glamorising violence in the lyrics of "Rhapsody in Black & Blue" I've decided to post the lyrics, (we...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:06:00 GMT

a ’Magic Potion’ review

torc... (remember that name) is high class Rock n Roll fusion that rumbles in an upper class all its own.Like messengers on royal horseback escorting a carriage ride with destiny, they deliver you you...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:34:00 GMT

Glasswerk Online Review

Torc have made a beautiful few songs here. Marlo R... Torc have made a beautiful few songs here. Marlo Renee Freeman's vocals are soft and sweet, yet c...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:13:00 GMT