On Tour Now!
How conceived:
Summer '05, Xtian and Geek make a very reverby, very noisy, very experimental 4 track recording called Meth Bird. Then, through the power of the internet, these two fresh young swingers put up a "missed connections" ad on Craigslist.
Amazingly, both Becker and Boothroyd happen to be looking for "no strings-attached" kicks in the "missed connections" ads at that exact moment, reply simultaneously and agree to meet at a practice space underneath SF's most gnarly, drug infested neighborhood: the Tenderloin. Reckless sonic exploration followed, the destruction of genres inadvertently ensues, and it all feels almost better than opiates.
Statistics:
In 3 years Triclops! has released 65 minutes of music on 6 record labels, on 5 different formats. They booked themselves through 3 full US tours, including performances at SXSW, CMJ, Fuck Yeah! Fest 4, The Fest 6 & 7, Total Fest 6 and Jello 5-0, logging in over 50,000 miles on their trusty Ford Econoline; playing everywhere from all ages DIY spots, restaurants, bookstores, coffee shops, outdoor parking lots, skate parks, art galleries, living rooms, basements, to the inevitable slew of 21 and up bars/pubs with their 2-drink-tickets-per-band-member hospitality.
Aesthetic:
With little desire to soothe their audience and/or provide them dance music to mate to, Triclops! has more in common with progress-obsessed, envelope-pushing artists like Sun Ra, Butthole Surfers, Zappa, Melvins/Big Business, and Sonic Youth than they do with the "retail-ready" indie disco bands dominating the press these days.
Secretly, though, Triclops! wishes they too could have a "hair budget" and "in-ear monitors". Their approach is sonic collage art-acid punk versions of avant-garde classical composition with cinematic textures. Triclops! consider their musical/lyrical ambitions and desires akin to Klaus Kinski's character in Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo, bug-eyed and clad in "civilized" attire in the midst of the jungle, with hordes of unpredictable indigenous laborers all struggling to haul a working steamboat over a mountain using only the power of their minds and sinewy bodies. Meanwhile, the sonorous strains of the great tenor Enrico Caruso broadcast forth from a tinny Victrola in the midst of an overpowering chorus of monkey-skin drums, death howls, screeching birds, and a relentless wall of buzzing insects as the steamship grinds down the mountain side cracking under its own weight - yeah, Triclops! sounds a bit like that.
Personnel:
Christian Eric Beaulieu: guitar
Phil Becker: drums
Larry Boothroyd: bass
Johnny Geek: vocals, noise bass
Location:
San Francisco, Berkeley
Current activities:
writing, recording, touring extensively
Date conceived:
2005
European Tourdates:
April 3 | Berlin - GE | Supamolli
April 4 | Potsdam - GE | Blackfleck
April 5 | Weikersheim - GE | W71
April 8 | Ljubiljana - SL | Menza Pri Koritu
April 9 | Bologna - IT | Atlantide
April 10 | Cervo (Imperia) - IT | spazio autogestito babilonia
April 11 | Pau - FR | Localypso II
April 12 | Limoges - FR | La Fourmi
April 13 | Vincennes - FR | La Jarry
April 14 | Lyon - FR | Sonic
April 15 | Marseille - FR | L'embobineuse
April 16 | Barcelona - SP | Club del Ritme
April 17 | Toulouse - FR | Le Pavillon Sauvage
April 18 | Castrop Rauxel - GE | Bahina de Cochinos
April 19 | Herford - GE | Die Pinte
April 20 | Hamburg - GE | Hafenklang
April 21 | Marburg - GE | Cafe Trauma
April 22 | Prag - CZ | TBA
April 23 | Krakow - PL | Underworld
April 24 | Vsetin - CZ | Semetin
April 25 | Amsterdam - NL | Melkweg
Summer '05, Xtian and Geek make a very reverby, very noisy, very experimental 4 track recording called Meth Bird. Then, through the power of the internet, these two fresh young swingers put up a "missed connections" ad on Craigslist.
Amazingly, both Becker and Boothroyd happen to be looking for "no strings-attached" kicks in the "missed connections" ads at that exact moment, reply simultaneously and agree to meet at a practice space underneath SF's most gnarly, drug infested neighborhood: the Tenderloin. Reckless sonic exploration followed, the destruction of genres inadvertently ensues, and it all feels almost better than opiates.
Statistics:
In 3 years Triclops! has released 65 minutes of music on 6 record labels, on 5 different formats. They booked themselves through 3 full US tours, including performances at SXSW, CMJ, Fuck Yeah! Fest 4, The Fest 6 & 7, Total Fest 6 and Jello 5-0, logging in over 50,000 miles on their trusty Ford Econoline; playing everywhere from all ages DIY spots, restaurants, bookstores, coffee shops, outdoor parking lots, skate parks, art galleries, living rooms, basements, to the inevitable slew of 21 and up bars/pubs with their 2-drink-tickets-per-band-member hospitality.
Aesthetic:
With little desire to soothe their audience and/or provide them dance music to mate to, Triclops! has more in common with progress-obsessed, envelope-pushing artists like Sun Ra, Butthole Surfers, Zappa, Melvins/Big Business, and Sonic Youth than they do with the "retail-ready" indie disco bands dominating the press these days.
Secretly, though, Triclops! wishes they too could have a "hair budget" and "in-ear monitors". Their approach is sonic collage art-acid punk versions of avant-garde classical composition with cinematic textures. Triclops! consider their musical/lyrical ambitions and desires akin to Klaus Kinski's character in Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo, bug-eyed and clad in "civilized" attire in the midst of the jungle, with hordes of unpredictable indigenous laborers all struggling to haul a working steamboat over a mountain using only the power of their minds and sinewy bodies. Meanwhile, the sonorous strains of the great tenor Enrico Caruso broadcast forth from a tinny Victrola in the midst of an overpowering chorus of monkey-skin drums, death howls, screeching birds, and a relentless wall of buzzing insects as the steamship grinds down the mountain side cracking under its own weight - yeah, Triclops! sounds a bit like that.
Personnel:
Christian Eric Beaulieu: guitar
Phil Becker: drums
Larry Boothroyd: bass
Johnny Geek: vocals, noise bass
Location:
San Francisco, Berkeley
Current activities:
writing, recording, touring extensively
Date conceived:
2005
European Tourdates:
April 3 | Berlin - GE | Supamolli
April 4 | Potsdam - GE | Blackfleck
April 5 | Weikersheim - GE | W71
April 8 | Ljubiljana - SL | Menza Pri Koritu
April 9 | Bologna - IT | Atlantide
April 10 | Cervo (Imperia) - IT | spazio autogestito babilonia
April 11 | Pau - FR | Localypso II
April 12 | Limoges - FR | La Fourmi
April 13 | Vincennes - FR | La Jarry
April 14 | Lyon - FR | Sonic
April 15 | Marseille - FR | L'embobineuse
April 16 | Barcelona - SP | Club del Ritme
April 17 | Toulouse - FR | Le Pavillon Sauvage
April 18 | Castrop Rauxel - GE | Bahina de Cochinos
April 19 | Herford - GE | Die Pinte
April 20 | Hamburg - GE | Hafenklang
April 21 | Marburg - GE | Cafe Trauma
April 22 | Prag - CZ | TBA
April 23 | Krakow - PL | Underworld
April 24 | Vsetin - CZ | Semetin
April 25 | Amsterdam - NL | Melkweg
