We continue with the list of our heroes who make the band look so great…
Leo James David aka Leo
True to his name, he is our leonine, fierce bearded Head of Security. One look at his super muscular body would discourage even the thought of making trouble. Leo makes us all [...]
Mumbai was hot and sticky. Got in over two hours late – Spice Jet blamed the weather.
The Juhu Hotel is this slightly run-down looking place, and it’s the home of the Razzberry Rhino, one of Mumbai’s Meccas for live music. The funny thing: the Razz, as it’s called, is this typical pub/lounge thing, inside the [...]
We said last week: Watch this space for more updates.
Well, the update is that Skinny Alley isn’t going to play. Bummer, because they’re a really cool band and we’d have loved them to be there.
Every fan can tell you about the personnel who make up a great band – we all know our gods who make the great music, but I’ll be the first to profile the Crew of this band, nay this (mental) institution called Thermal And A Quarter. I don’t recall everyone who was in therapy with [...]
We get up at the usual unearthly hour of 3 and a quarter am, and shove ourselves into a tempo traveler. As soon as we cross the Hosur checkpost, the sun burns us right on cue – Welcome to Tamil Nadu border, Thermal And A Quarter. 12.30ish sees us at Chennai locked in this traffic [...]
In our ten years, we’ve jammed with a whole variety of instruments – Carnatic percussion, Hindustani slide guitar, Coromandel vocals, et cetera. But in the recent past, we’ve been initiated into a new sax-uality.
In TAAQ’s book, 23-year-old Nate Linkon from the Windy City is nothing short of a prodigy. He is our latest thrilling discovery [...]
It was just after Bruce’s wedding. We went back to ol’ 606, Barton Centre, and having seasoned ourselves suitably, settled into a jam.
JJ, TAAQ’s spiritual ‘wind beneath the wings’ of the Jupiter Cafe era (you must have seen him credited on the CD literature) was there with a friend. There was Umesh on tambourine and [...]
Here’s a special edition of Jupiter Cafe, live, from the opening act for Jethro Tull, Feb. 3, 2006.
Guests: David Pascall on vocals. Sunil Chandy on keys. Prakash Sontakke on slide guitar and vocals.
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The October issue of our newsletter is out.
If you haven’t checked your mail yet, here it is.
You’ve got to listen to this one… Paper Puli performed with characteristic aplomb. With one surprise ingredient – the brilliant Nate Linkon on saxophone.
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Some mad last-minute air-ticket convolutions notwithstanding, TAAQ made it to IIT Delhi on the night of Friday, the 22nd of September, 2006. The piped voice on the Jet flight gargled that the ‘temperature outside was 35 degrees’, but the gargler was wrong – a sudden shower had decided to cool Dilli down for us.
Gluttons for [...]
Finally, Guzuru’s prayers are answered. Watch the video of Galacktiqua live at Octavia 2006, the festival of Heber Hall, Madras Christian College, Chennai.
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