Calmer* - Thomas Truax, Smokehand

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Calmer* race week show. THOMAS TRUAX He makes his own instruments. He’s the illegitimate son of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and a mad scientist. He’s from New York but claims to be from Wowtown, a place which exists only in his imagination. ‘Beguilingly bizarre’ Uncut Garage rock songs, cabaret show tunes, full of whistles, toy pianos, ice cream chimes and invented instruments. Shades of Tom Waits’ storytelling, Nick Cave’s theatricality and Lux Interior’s howling-at-the-moon-madness. Prepare to be introduced to the hornicator, “…more akin to a William Burroughs style hallucination than an instrument..." Propertop.com, sister spinster and the beatmaster. "...not of this earth...I still can't think of a single show I've seen that was as beguiling or as charming or as plain bananas as this one." Gigwise.com www.thomastruax.com SMOKEHAND ‘Dark Loungecore’ 4 piece from Cardiff . Eclectic exploits of jazz, Latino, classical and pop create a post-modern Film Noir soundtrack that is one minute sinister and the next, Sinatra. Dark, brooding and breathtaking. The voice of the real musical underground calling up from a Parisian cellar bar or seedy, city tenement block. www.myspace.com/smokehand