Thomas Truax
FRIDAY 24TH OCTOBER 2025
Doors : 7.30pm
£15.00
General Admission Standing
Age Limit : Over 18s Only
One of the most imaginative characters on the pop music fringe, since the year 2000 Thomas has been traveling the world performing with his evolving band of bizarre self-made Harry Partch-esque instruments including a motorized drum machine made of bike wheels called Mother Superior and a pimped-up Dr. Seuss-ian Gramophone called The Hornicator, as well as his venerable resonator guitar Hank. Time Out magazine has dubbed him The king of home-made instruments while Splendid magazine called him one of the five or ten best singer/songwriters in the world that you've never heard of an exceptional talent, unique and resistant to comparison, yet fairly accessible even to casual listeners.
Truax crafts rich, poetically evocative songs about insects, trees, technology, and a lifelong obsession with things lunar, including various reasons Why Dogs Howl at The Moon. Notable supporters and collaborators include Jarvis Cocker, Duke Special, Richard Hawley, James Smith of Yard Act, Bob Log III, the Dresden Dolls and the late author Terry Pratchett. His latest album Dream Catching Songs featuring drummer Budgie of the Slits, Siouxsie & The Banshees et al. was released in 2023.
