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GIG Diary
Selected STU THOMAS SOLO Live highlights...
Thu 19th July 2007: The Powerhouse, Brisbane, Queensland.
Stu plays solo at the invitation of Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds). Using just a Burns baritone guitar and voice (via a headset mic), ST holds the crowd in delicate rapture, freezing spines with long, lonesome notes, riding on waves of sweet violet reverberation. Touching on subjects close to human hearts (like mortality, incarceration..), and unearthing obscure songs from films, STU is tonight talkative and eloquent in matters such as Dante's "Inferno", and bamboo McMansions.
He warmly chills the audience, who then experience the instrumental journeyman Cam Butler carry a 20-min acoustic trance-out upwards and outwards...Thomas Wydler & the Morphosa Harmonia band then take the wordless music to another level with an underground all-star mini-orchestra playing vivid tunes and exciting grooves. (Thomas Wydler on drums, Clare Moore on vibes, Mick Harvey on guitar/voicings, Rosie Westbrook on bass/double bass, Julitha Ryan on keys/voicings, Beata Bartel on laptop soundtrackery, James Jonhston on guitar/organ).
Sat 12th March 2005: The Cornish Arms, Brunswick. STU billed as the headline, played solo with electricky guitahh, (whilst the mixer floats away into the beer garden ether, lured by marihuana cigarettes - of course, feedback ensues) after the rockin' Diddly Daddies and before the rockin' The Exotics, for 3PBS Swamp Buck Roots & Blues...The whole shoo-bang was recorded, so expect to hear a track or two on 3PBS sometime.... Jan '06 : The track called "Grinding Teeth" has appeared on the 3PBSFM compilation, called "Swamp Buck Roots & Blues". Available from 3PBSFM.
27th Feb 2005: The Rob Roy, Fitzroy. Stu chills and electrifies an unsuspecting afternoon audience. The windows & doors were flung open to let in a haunting breeze & the eerie scrapings of the trams & the jabber of street-loons in the middle-distance...Also, some friends from Berlin make an appearance!
23rd Feb 2005: 3RRR's Incoming show, Melbourne. Stu performs The Specials song "Ghost Town" to answer Rich Moffat's challenge to do a cover outside of your known style. Stu uses his golden megaphone in-studio (barely needing a mike) & plays the Burns electric guitar, live-to-air.
24th Dec 2004: The Pony, Melbourne. Stu takes the stage solo with his heavily-reverbed Burns electric guitar. Special audience member is his Mother(adorned with a much-admired arm-scaffold to aid her broken wrist). Stu plays his 'Berlin set' : a mix of his own moody, affecting twang & even moodier movie songs from way back. The show ends with the addition of special guest Brass Bedder's Tim Hilton(trombone) & Sherab Holley(violin), crescendoing with 3 surf-gyspy-chaingang rousers, which have the audience on their feet(and their knees).....Moondriven follow, Phil Spector manifesto intact.
15-27th Nov 2004: Berlin, Germany.
After finishing a 28-date European tour playing bass for The SCIENTISTS, he hopped a plane from London & notched up 6 shows on his Solo Club Tour of Berlin. He borrowed a Telecaster Deluxe & Fender Deluxe amp from Martin Fiedler(Neon Dorn), & played 4 nites in a row in the first week(Friday at Eschschlorage was a full-house success).
Check out these links for photos (or not) from the Scientists Nov 2004 tour. These are few venues we destroyed...
VERA(Holland), KSET(Croatia), ESTRAGON, Italy.
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