Artist:Tortoise HEAD Platoon

They are a musical Frankenstein, thick lashings of deep set grooves and catching melodies homespun and stitched together, somewhat ugly, somehow enchanting. But it’s only when you see them live you realize it’s safe to say it. Tortoise HEAD Platoon is an accident, a one of a kind musical oddity. Too strange to keep, too rare to lose. Everything from funk, blues, jazz, rock, country and even metal all fall into line beneath the hands and minds of Newcastle based band, T*H*P. Focused and confident as they strut their stuff on stage, flinging wild energy about with reckless abandon, one can’t help but wonder how such technical complexity can be matched with such enthusiasm.