Electric juke music to shake off the weird summer sand - Storehouse reassemble on Saturday March 8th to deliver some deep draughts of darkest blues, calypso and spirituals.
The proto-soul experts have no plan, no set list, no items on the agenda - other than conjuring a bohemian dance rent party for you and your best girl/boy. Using the limitlessly pliant format of antique guitar futurism, Storehouse shows meander through the busted backstreets of meaning, intertwining the emotional language of hits such as “I Like Your Sister”, “Who is Going Down in the Grave With Me” and “Don’t Get Caught Selling Wine to a Child in Arizona”.
They are aided on their urbane endeavours with Auckland’s most famous musician OXSUN OX, the city’s one-man secret army of synth / drum-machine / tarpaulin sonic cataclysms.
The venue - fact fans - is the Grey Lynn Ballroom, AKA the retro function room above the Grey Lynn RSC, 1 Francis Street.
Storehouse features: Tom Rodwell (vocals, guitar, (“Sheffield’s answer to Lightnin’ Hopkins”, NME) alongside Auckland’s hardest working man on the drum stool, Chris O’Connor and mysterious bass governor Count Bassy. Rodwell’s 2021 LP Wood & Waste was named one of iconic NZ music journalist Graham Reid’s top albums of the year, charted on US radio - notching up heavy rotation for 6 months statewide - and secured international distribution with Cargo Records UK.
You don't hear that anymore. Beautiful groove, beautiful tunes! - Derek Trucks.
Rodwell manages to eschew the cliches that beset blues music. By turns wild, angry, hypnotic and sensual, it's as uncompromising as it is funky and some of the best live music I've seen. - Blues in London.
Soul-probing... Raw, avant-garde improvisations...Singer/guitarist Tom Rodwell’s extraordinary revision of blues and gospel always gets the joint jumping. - Metro (NZ).
