If you’re around Amsterdam first week of May come check out the 11th Doek Festival in Amsterdam. Cactus Truck will be performing May 5 at Vondelbunker and John Dikeman will be performing with Dikeman, Kugel, Van der Weide with guests Roy Campbell and Peter Jacquemyn May 3 at the Bimhuis. Complete info about the festival can be found here: http://www.doekfestival.org
Cactus Truck’s new live album is out now! It features 71 minutes of material (almost three full shows) from our 2012 tour of the USA featuring Jeb Bishop and Roy Campbell. It’s a bit lo-fi, and perhaps stupidly long for our music, but we thought it worth documenting this tour and, for once, giving you all the bang for your buck you could hope for! It’s available digitally via bandcamp, just click the cactus to the left. Send us an email if you want to order a physical copy and we’ll figure it out! cactustruck (at) gmail (dot) com
Limited edition.
Produced by our own Tractata Records in collaboration with eh?.
First review available here. ***** from Tomajazz! http://www.tomajazz.com/web/?p=5757
So, after completing, I believe, 37 gigs on our USA tour, as well as a couple performances for the Ex’s 33 1/3 anniversaries in Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, we have made it to 2013 and have been decidedly lazy for a bit…
However coming up! We will be playing in Dublin as part of the 12 Points! festival!! Very excited to be there and visit Dublin for the first time!!! Check out the festival here: http://www.12points.ie/
Also, in process:
We are currently working on two new CDs which should come out in 2013. One will be a limited edition CD of various recordings from our USA tour. It will be produced in collaboration with eh? records, the bastard little brother of Public Eyesore. Will (probably) include featured guests Jeb Bishop and Roy Campbell.
The other was recorded on the last day of our USA tour, immediately after a brutal concert with Kevin Shea and Tim Dahl and before our very last show with Roy Campbell that night. We went to Seizures Palace to record from midnight till 5:00 am. We were pretty exhausted, but at a certain point got a second (or third) wind. The sound of the recording is excellent, big thanks to Jason for staying awake with us. Label hunting at the moment but hoping to release it in the second half of the year.
Cactus Truck embarks on a big tour through the USA. For more details, go to Upcoming events.
Oct 22 Eyedrum: Atlanta, GA
Oct 23 Snug Harbor: Charlotte, NC
Oct 25 The Kings: Raleigh, NC
Oct 26 Squidco Records: Wilmington, NC
Oct 27 Sonic Circuits: Washington DC
Oct 29 Highwire Gallery: Philadelphia, PA – canceled due to hurricane Sandy. – moved to Dec 09.
Oct 30 Simon’s kitchen: Boston, MA
Oct 31 Old Gym at Bard College: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Nov 01 Zebulon: Brooklyn, NY
Nov 02 Windup Space: Baltimore, MD
Nov 03 Al’s Sidecar: Lexington, KY
Nov 05 Vitruvian Brew Company: Yellow Springs, OH
Nov 08 Umbrella Festival: Chicago, IL
Nov 09 University of Northern Iowa: Cedar Falls, IA
Nov 09 The Carriage House: Cedar Falls, IA
Nov 10 Sugar Maple: Milwaukee, WI
Nov 13 Madame of the Arts: Minneapolis, MN
Nov 14 KPVL 89.1 The Blend radioshow: Decorah, IA
Nov 15 Side Door Lounge: Omaha, NE
Nov 16 Rhinoceropolis: Denver, CO
Nov 18 Nox Contemporary: Salt Lake City, UT
Nov 19 College of Southern Idaho: Boise, ID
Nov 20 Royal Room: Seattle, WA
Nov 21 Northern: Olympia, WA
Nov 24 House show: Portland, OR
Nov 25 Blue Monk: Portland, OR
Nov 26 Nebraska Monday at Luna Cafe: Sacramento, CA
Nov 27 Berkeley Arts: San Francisco, CA
Nov 28 Liminal: West Oakland, CA
Nov 29 Grand Star Jazz Club: Los Angeles, CA
Nov 30 Trunk Space: Phoenix, AZ
Dec 02 Church of the Friendly Ghost: Austin, TX
Dec 03 They, Who Sound: Houston, TX
Dec 04 Zeitgeist: New Orleans, LA
Dec 05 University of Arkansas: Fayetteville, AR
Dec 06 Lemp Arts Center: St Louis, MO
Dec 07 Astro Black Records: Louisville, KY
Dec 08 Conundrum: West Columbia, SC
Dec 09 Highwire Gallery: Philadelphia, PA
Dec 10 Spectrum: New York City, NY
Dec 11 Sycamore Bar: New York City, NY
Dec 12 JACK: New York City, NY
This tour is produced in collaboration with Public Eyesore, Stichting dOeK and Cactus Truck with help from NFPK (Nederlands Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
Hey everybody,
Cactus Truck is planning a little tour this autumn (22 September – early October), which will feature the incredible drummer Nicolas Field (Geneva, CH).
Listen here to a live recording from our concert at Cave12, Geneva, 4 March 2012.
http://soundcloud.com/cactustruck/sets/cactus-truck-ft-nicolas-field
Please contact us if you’re interested in booking this version of Cactus Truck.
Our LP of Brand New For China! is finally out! Public Eyesore 119. We went for 180 gram vinyl and 45 RPM for the best sound quality possible. This is a studio recording mixed by Colin McLean (The Ex, Lean Left) and in the end we’re very happy with the sound of the vinyl. Also great to have Phil Wood’s artwork on a big vinyl sleeve. Each LP is numbered by hand!
Order now directly from us and it’s 15 euros, shipping included. First 10 orders, after that, we’ll see, have to charge extra for shipping as it’s very expensive in Holland. We can also send you the full size digital downloads when you order it. More info: email cactustruck@gmail.com
The Wire
It’s easy to see why The Ex’s Terrie Hessels described Cactus Truck as the discovery of the year in The Wire’s 2011 Rewind a few months back. His idea of a friendly greeting is a hard punch to the solar plexus, and that’s what Amsterdam based American saxophonist John Dikeman and Dutch sparring partners guitarist/bassist Jasper Stadhouders and drummer Onno Govaert deliver on Brand New For China!, three of whose seven excitingly raw tracks clock in at just 20 seconds, for anyone nostalgic for grindcore. But there’s a lingering aftertaste of vintage free jazz in Dikeman’s rough, rubbery saxophone playing and Stadhouders’s wild, wiry guitar.
Dan Warburton
And check out this review at the Free Jazz blog!
http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.nl/2012/06/cactus-truck-brand-new-for-china-public.html
