blueFROG’s take on TOUGH ON TOBACCO (Mumbai) with special guest KEN STRINGFELLOW (USA)
Tough on Tobacco is this high energy, fun and cool band with catchy tunes. Apart from enjoying Sidd Coutto's happy face, you will get a special treat this time where US guitarist Ken Stringfellow - who played with REM, Neil Young, Snow Patrol - will do an opening set and then jam with the TOT boys.
-Emmanuelle de Decker, Live Programming
All about TOUGH ON TOBACCO (Mumbai) with special guest KEN STRINGFELLOW (USA)
Artists
Main Artists : Tough on Tobacco, Ken Stringfellow
Tough on Tobacco is singer-songwriter Sidd Coutto's talent packed, genre bending, convention defying, wildly funny, brand new live act. The music is a melange of pop, rock and reggae. The band includes Helga's Fun Castle's Johan Pais on bass, Jai Row Kavi on drums & amp; Zero's last guitar line-up of Pozy Dhar and Gaurav Gupta. The band is fronted by Sidd Coutto on vocals, guitars, keyboards, percussion, drums and computers.
Ken Stringfellow--musician, songwriter, producer, arranger--has been part of the indie landscape since the debut of his acclaimed band The Posies in 1988. In addition to his groundbreaking work with the Posies, Ken was part of rock legends Big Star, one of the most acclaimed and legendary groups of all time, from 1993 until the death of Alex Chilton in 2010. Ken played bass, sang and helped create the band’s 2005 album “In Space”, their first since 1978’s timeless “Third/Sister Lovers”.
Tough on Tobacco is singer-songwriter Sidd Coutto's talent packed, genre bending, convention defying, wildly funny, brand new live act. The music is a melange of pop, rock and reggae. The band includes Helga's Fun Castle's Johan Pais on bass, Jai Row Kavi on drums & amp; Zero's last guitar line-up of Pozy Dhar and Gaurav Gupta.The band is fronted by Sidd Coutto on vocals, guitars, keyboards, percussion, drums and computers.
Ken Stringfellow--musician, songwriter, producer, arranger--has been part of the indie landscape since the debut of his acclaimed band The Posies in 1988. In addition to his groundbreaking work with the Posies, Ken was part of rock legends Big Star, one of the most acclaimed and legendary groups of all time, from 1993 until the death of Alex Chilton in 2010. Ken played bass, sang and helped create the band’s 2005 album “In Space”, their first since 1978’s timeless “Third/Sister Lovers”.
Ken also spent ten years on the road and in studio with R.E.M., appearing on two albums (2001’s “Reveal” and 2004’s “Around the Sun”), and propelling the band on keyboards, bass, guitar and accordion during headlining slots at Glastonbury, Rock In Rio, Rock Am Ring, etc. The list of collaborations goes on: guitarist in punk legends Lagwagon; producer/engineer on albums for Damien Jurado, the Long Winters, China’s Hanggai, and dozens more; on stage and on album appearances with Snow Patrol (keyboards on their landmark “Eyes Open” album), Neil Young, Patti Smith, Mudhoney, Death Cab For Cutie... Stringfellow is adept at many styles.
His shows are legendary, pushing minimalism to its core definition, often performing without using the house PA, Ken’s voice soars, cries, leaps from barely audible to room-filling anguish, joy, sorrow and humor. Ken’s live show has been raved about in packed audiences from Lithuania to Lima, from Taipei to Tasmania, from Johannesburg to Trinidad.