The Voodoo Trombone Quartet

Bio:

Hello, I'm Paul from The Voodoo Trombone Quartet.

I made an album that Nick Hollywood, that nice man from Freshly Squeezed, put out. You can buy it at all good record stores, both online and offline, or in digital format for your portable music whatsit at a bunch of places, including iTunes. Here's a handy button that you can click if you want to buy it, which looks like this:

You can also buy our theme tune to MTV's The Paper (below) which is called "Medium Wave" here:

For more info see: Freshly Squeezed Music.

Some of my music is on compilation albums around the world. Some of it has been used as theme tunes to programs on Radio 4 and 6music. Some of it has backed the news on 5Live and the Chelsea highlights on Smooth FM. Some of it got played on the radio and some on TV. Davina McCall has even worked out before and after her pregnancy to the VTQ. Some of my music made people tap their fingers on the train or in their car. And some of it even got people to dance in nightclubs.

And now I have a proper band with real people too. I've got my old friends Frank and Matt playing drums and bass, Liz Mitchell on saxophone, Nathan Thomas on French horn, Chris "Spesh" Maloney on guitar, Richard Watts on trumpet and Patrick Symes on trombone. We've played at all kinds of places including Ronnie Scotts, Glastonbury and Bestival.

I've just finished working on another album now. It's taken a while, but it's champion!

Paul.

THE VOODOO TROMBONE QUARTET ...AGAIN - album OUT NOW!!!

"Could well be the one band that I would like to see at a Summer festival this year, more than any other... they seem to have bottled everything about Summer into a terrific three minute pop song. Really lovely stuff. " The Beat Surrender

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Member Since:

January 24, 2006

Members:

Paul Thorpe (keys, vox)

Influences:

Can, Kraftwerk, Suicide, Herbie Hancock, Bobbie Gentry, Scott Walker, Tindersticks, Stooges, MC5, Tortoise, The Czars, Papa M, Spacemen 3, Loop, Henry Mancini, Television, John Barry, Barry Adamson, Captain Beefheart, Skatalites, King Tubby, Lee Perry, Scientist, Lounge Lizards, Prince Buster, The Specials, John Zorn, David Holmes, DJ Shadow, Prefuse 73, David Bowie, Pere Ubu, PiL, Astrid Gilberto, Dusty Springfield, Delia Derbyshire, Bill Withers, Wilson Pickett, Booker T & the MGs, Moondog, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Lambchop, Slint, Wire, Beta Band, High Llamas, Stereolab, Donald Byrd, Horace Andy and a bunch of other stuff that I can't recall right now and that would in any case be just too much information.

Sounds Like:

The Voodoo Trombone Quartet ...Again brand new second album including the hit single South Westerly




The Voodoo Trombone Quartet - 12 track eponymous debut album


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Voodoo Juju - 7" and 12" double a-sided vinyl single and download EP back-to-back with Lemon's Suzie Q and featuring remixes by Lemon and Skeewiff.



Medium Wave - 7" single - soundtrack to MTV's 'The Paper' and featuring an exclusive b-side 'VTQ From The Block'




The Phantom EP - Limited edition 10" vinyl and download 3 track EP including 'The Phantom', 'Major Taylor - Bicyclist' and 'Eastern Wanderer'




Vibrations EP - Limited edition 10"vinyl and download 3 track EP including 'Vibrations', 'Do It Your Own Way' and 'Millionaire's Holiday

Record Label:

Freshly Squeezed Music