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Artist
The Tom Fun Orchestra
12+ albums
folkcabaretCanadianindiefolk rock
about
A lot of band bios will begin with the line “with humble beginnings”. This band bio begins with the line “with outrageously immodest and ambitious beginnings”. With outrageously immodest and ambitious beginnings, The Tom Fun Orchestra sauntered into the Atlantic Canadian music scene the way an Italian funeral saunters through a mountain village. That is, with many loud instruments, casks of wine and complete irreverence for everything happening around them. Thus it went for the next five years. The bio continues with an appreciation for what the band has done and become in those five years. A year into the band’s life, they travelled the country with eighteen of their friends in a school bus. It suited the band’s affinity for spectacle, noise, and gas fumes. Such was that affinity that the band went on playing a well worn ribbon, as they say from St. John’s to Victoria and further to old world haunts like The United Kingdom and Ireland. Much to the band’s delight, these tours increased in size and ambition as growing audiences applauded their approval. The bio is richer to point out that many of these aforementioned details revolve around a very good musical recording that the band produced in 2008 with the help of American musician, Gordon Gano called You Will Land With a Thud. That record received an East Coast Music Award as the Galaxy Rising Star Recording of the Year, it inspired three wildly successful music videos domestically and internationally, and garn
