SOLD OUT: Buffalo Tom at The Fleece, Bristol

Tue 4th Dec | 7.30pm | £22.50 adv | All Ages*

Buffalo Tom
www.buffalotom.com

When
they released their first album in 1989, the Boston-based trio Buffalo
Tom were written off as Dinosaur Jr. junior. Admittedly, their debut was
in debt to J Mascis' thundering guitar and folk-tinged songs and it
didn't help that Mascis produced the record, either. Over time, Buffalo
Tom stripped away their grungier influences and developed into a
straight-ahead rock group of the early '90s, capable of throttling
rockers and beautiful ballads. Comprising guitarist/vocalist Bill
Janovitz, bassist/vocalist Chris Colbourn, and drummer Tom Maginnis,
Buffalo Tom began to develop their own style with their second album,
1990's Birdbrain, which featured a noticeable improvement in
songwriting.
Let Me Come Over In 1992, Buffalo Tom released Let Me
Come Over, a gritty set of driving rock and achingly melancholy ballads;
several of its tracks became alternative radio staples, including the
gorgeous ballad "Taillights Fade." Despite an increased amount of
critical praise and some radio airplay, the album didn't sell. The
follow-up, 1993's Big Red Letter Day, featured a more polished,
radio-ready production, but the album received only a small push from
radio and MTV. "Soda Jerk," the first single from the album, became a
minor alternative radio and MTV hit. After a yearlong tour, the group
returned in the summer of 1995 with Sleepy Eyed, a return to the more
direct sound of Let Me Come Over. Smitten followed in 1998, and two
years later a best-of, Asides from Buffalo Tom, arrived.
Three Easy
Pieces Almost a decade of inactivity followed, but things weren't over
for Buffalo Tom; they returned in 2007 with an appearance at SXSW and a
new full-length album on the New West label, Three Easy Pieces. Skins,
the band's eighth studio album, arrived in early 2011 through their own
Scrawny Records label. From this point onward, Buffalo Tom were for the
most part retired, but the band periodically reunited for live shows. In
2017, after Beggars Banquet released an expanded 25th-anniversary
edition of Let Me Come Over, the trio reconvened for a short run of
dates in the United States and Europe. Following the tour, Buffalo Tom
went into the studio, returning to the material they began recording in
2016. March 2018 saw the release of their ninth album, Quiet and Peace,
which included ten original songs as well as a cover of Simon &
Garfunkel's "The Only Living Boy in New York."

The Fleece
www.thefleece.co.uk

TICKETS
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*under 16s must be with an adult