In 2005, Firewater’s Tod A embarked on what would become a 3-year sabbatical through the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia. As the leader of a loose collective that has included a few dozen of the best players in rock today, he has always loved the act of collaboration, incorporating klezmer, ska, cabaret and gypsy elements into his songs in ways that were far ahead of hi...
Tod A's band, Firewater, has been around for more than 10 years, however Saturday night's performance at the intimate Art House venue was their live debut in Athens.My initiation to Tod A's music goes a long way back. In August '92 I had the opportunity to see him live with his first band, the excellent Cop Shoot Cop, at the Marquee in London playing a deafeningly loud mixture of industrial
I am addicted to this damn song. aaarg.I am so sick of seeing pills for every problem you could have on tv. its like a simple way to deal with your problems instead of ACTUALLY dealing with your problems (like religion). this song is basically expressing my hate for such things right now.When the little things are tearing you apartThey should have warned youThis is how it startsAn answering mac...
Firewater is a band founded by Tod Ashley in 1995. He describes them as a "wedding band gone wrong".After Tod left his previous group, Cop Shoot Cop, he quickly regrouped and formed Firewater to explore the styles of music Cop Shoot Cop had only hinted at, including klezmer, cabaret, ska, jazz, and gypsy forms. More than one source described the original Firewater lineup as an "indie rock supe...
Firewater makes my kind of rocknroll. Reverent to tradition without being bound by them, adventurous without self-indulgence, Firewater plays blood n guts rocknroll with swagger & style.
In 2005, Firewater’s Tod A embarked on what would become a 3-year sabbatical through the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia. As the leader of a loose collective that has included a few dozen of the best players in rock today, he has always loved the act of collaboration, incorporating klezmer, ska, cabaret and gypsy elements into his songs in ways that were far ahead of hi...