Skeleton$ (apparently Skeletons and the Girl Faced Boys changed their name?), Arrington De Dionyso (of Old Time Relijun) and Jason Trachtenburg will fill the intimate Zebulon room with sound tonight. And rejoice: it's free!
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Saturday 27th September 2008 Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players with Pleassesuer & Anamanaguchi @ Knitting Factory New York USA $10
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Tuesday 23rd September 2008 Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, London 7.30pm
tickets £10.00 (buy via seetickets from here)
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Monday 22 September 2008 Decorum presents: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players + An Axe + more TBC Bristol Bar Oppo, 72 Park St. £4.00 adv £5.00 on the door
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Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players & An Axe - September 22nd @ Oppo Bar, Bristol!
Decorum Records Presents...
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players - An Axe - Monday 22nd Septermber - Bar Oppo, Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5JX http://www.oppomusicbar.com/
Decorum presents a very special performance from the incredible Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
This is a last minute addition to their current UK tour. Playing at cafe and music bar Oppo (72 Park Street), this promises to be an extremely intimate show. To see the Trachtenburg family perform at a venue like this is incredibly rare, and almost unheard of outside the US. You will simply not get another chance to see the Trachtenburg family like this, so make sure you don't miss this one!
Tickets are £4 in adv, and will be available from Bristol Ticket Shop and Here Shop on Stokes Croft from Tuesday. Admission on the night will be £5
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
The Trachtenburgs are a domestic trio (dad Jason, mom Tina Piña, 15-year-old daughter Rachel), who play quirky indie pop songs in the key of unironic good, clean fun with one major catch: All the songs carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections theyve found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances. Whats more, from their retro fashion sense to their disavowal of modern conveniences, the Trachtenburgs are a charming relic: a vintage throwback to simpler, more self-sufficient, family-oriented times just like their music.
Tina Piña and Jason met at a Greenwich Village open-mic in 1989, and the pair later relocated to Seattle. They had a daughter, Rachel, and ran a dog-walking business while Jason worked Seattles open-mic circuit. When his eccentric indie pop was failing to find an audience, Tina suggested he augment his act with slide imagery.
On a subsequent dog-walking trip with Rachel, she found an old slide projector at a garage sale, and a box of slides from a random familys 1959 mountain trip to Japan. One morning in 2000, Tina awoke to find Jason had spent the entire night writing a song to accompany the slide presentation (appropriately titled Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959). Six-year-old Rachel was recruited to play harmonica; (she later moved over to drum duties), Tina was appointed projector operator/backup singer, and the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players were born.
The remarkably favorable reaction to the family act was nearly unfathomable. The local press went wild; their coffee house shows boasted lines out the door.
In July 2002 the family relocated to New Yorks East Village and befriended artists like Regina Spektor and Nellie McKay. After being covered by The New Yorker, Spin, EW, the Village Voice, and others, Bar/None released their full-length debut, which showcased Jason singing about topics as varied as enjoying fondue in Switzerland to training employees to work at Wendys. Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Volume 1 (2003) was recorded in Seattle before the big move and features guest spots from the citys local stars.
Six months and a lot of DIY-campaigning later they were the first unsigned band to appear on Late Night with Conan OBrien.
'We're an indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow band, says singer/songwriter Jason Trachtenburg. We've got the market cornered. Theres no band that can hold a candle to us. In that department.'
www.myspace.com/slideshowplayers
www.slideshowplayers.com
The Trachtenburgs will be supported by An Axe.
An Axe are purveyors of brooding melancholia and dark shanty-pop. Tales of taxidermy and cruel tides from the bottom of the bottle are the order of the day for this Bristol foursome. Simultaneously celebrating and questioning the acheivements of man, An Axe weave dense tapestries with sparse arrangements.
Their songs are cinematic in scope but concise in practice, only too aware that a point laboured is a point lost. An Axe meld the historical with the personal, utilising horrorshow keys, ramshackle percussion and chiming guitars
www.myspace.com/anaxe
For more details on this show please see: www.myspace.com/decorumrecords
Be sure to dress sharp.
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Saturday 20th September Theatre Royal Bath UK
Direct from the USA
Presented by The Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players
Saturday 20th September
Starring American Indie Rock Star Rachel Trachtenburg14 year old American indie rock star and TV host Rachel Tractenberg host this wacky new variety show direct from the USA. Featuring Syd Barrett covers, puppets and organic cookery against a animated felt background!
Rachel’s unique show has been referred to as “Martha Stewart for kids” and “a psychedlic Seasame Street”
Running Time 50 minutes
Ages 2 – Adult
Tickets: £7 / £5 discounts
Performance Times11.30am & 3pm
www.puppetcraft.co.uk
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Friday 19th – Saturday 20th September 2008 Theatre Royal Bath
Direct from the Soho Theatre
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players describe themselves as an “indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band”. Part stand-up comedy, part rock group, part art project, they’re unlike anything you’ve seen before.
Jason Trachtenburg makes music that tells the story of hundreds of vintage slides found in junk sales across the US and Europe. His wife Tina randomly selects the slides for each performance, making this unique show a spontaneous, madcap, weirdly chraming one-off, brought to Bath from the quirkier side of the U.S.A.
“They give a deeply warm feeling of a happy family, enjoying each other’s company … They are the White Stripes’ quirky cousins and a totally unique, Vaudevillian act that should be nurtured” - Stage“You will never see a show more weirdly wonderful” - MetroTickets: £11/£8 discounts
Buy Online from 21st July
Performance TimesEvenings: 8pm
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THU 18TH SEP, 2008 8.00pm £9.00 BRIGHTON OIB RECORDS @ THE HOPE
OIB Records Presents:
THE TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS
"NYC's Tratchenburg Family return to play a super intimate festival warm-up. Expect their usual quirky blend of indie-vaudeville slide-projection-pop-songs"
www.myspace.com/slideshowplayers
+
THE BOBBY McGEES
"No-fi vaudeville pop-shanties"
www.myspace.com/thebobbymcgees
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MARCUS HESSENBERG AND THE TULIPS
"Ukulele inspired lo-fi pop"
www.myspace.com/tulips
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Friday September 12 2008 Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
New York Tea Factory-Bushwick USA
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Thursday September 11 2008 Jason Trachtenburg - Zombieville # 8
Brooklyn Southpaw USA
Zombieville XII Featuring Jason Trachtenburg, The Extraordinaires, Miracles Of Modern Science and Shellshag @ Southpaw
Here is the 12th installment to this great showcase of music! This time Jason Trachtenburg from the Trachteburg Family Slide Show, The extraordinaitres, Miracles of Modern Science and Shellshag(house band) will be taking the stage. It is going to be a great show! ALSO get there on time and you will receive free cookies! Which is neat! Also Six point brew on tap will be two for one for all the people that don't get excited about free cookies!
@Southpaw
Location: 125 5th Ave (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: ?
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Saturday September 6 2008LES Howl! Festival, Tompkins Square Park, New York Free
1.00 p.m. Middle Collegiate Choir
1.30 p.m. Blonde Boy Wilson with On Davis
1.40 p.m. "Bang the Drum for the Brothers,"J. Fitzgerald creates a dazzling spectacle of rhythm and rhyme.
2.05 p.m. TIMBILA
2.25 p.m Baby Soda
2.45 p.m. Tin Pan
3.05 p.m Reverend Billy
3.25 p.m. Trachtenburg Family
4.05 p.m. Becky Wreck
4.20 p.m. Ari Up's Slits
5 p.m. THE COCKETTES and the Thrill Peddlers
6 p.m. The House of HOWL PRESENTS THE HOUSE OF BON VIVANT'S BALLHOUSE TRIBUTE
