News

New video for "Rain Saves Lives"

You can discover the video for Rain Saves Lives (from It Ends Like Crazy) directed by Emma Kathan.

Chokebore's "A taste for bitters" remastered vinyl reissue

The 3rd Chokebore album will be reissued on vinyl on November 13th, 2020 on Vicious Circle Records! More info on the label's site.

Interview & review

You can read an interview about "Caution! Poison snake! No entry!" on Gaiar: in english and in french.
You can also check the short review about the book on Cédric Lépine blog.

New short story in a magazine

The short story "Joseph was at the top of the stairs" written by Troy is published in the magazine "Ou bien" available in bookshops of Angoulême and other selected places. More info: oubien16@gmail.com.

Production for Koenraad by the sea, and new TvB album

TvB just mixed and produced the forthcoming Koenraad by the sea "Where is home?" EP to be released in November.
He's also mixing the new TvB album!

Chapi-Chapo

TvB sings on "Collector", the new Chapi-Chapo album to be released on December 4th on Music for the Masses / PIAS, also including Laetitia Shériff, Jad Fair, Emilie Quinquis, G.W. Sok on vocals…

TvB clip selected at the European Film Festival

The clip for the song "Lullaby for Psycho" made by Xavier Bleu was selected in Moscow at the European Film Festival 2020.

Tour

TvB is touring this winter & spring. See all dates below and details in the shows page.

• 2020/02/07 - Intime Festival - Saint-Avertin (37 - Fr)
• 2020/02/15 - Festival Hors-Pistes - Annecy (74 - Fr)
• 2020/03/19 - La Nef - Angoulême (16 - Fr)
• 2020/04/09 - Festival Faveur de Printemps - Hyères (83 - Fr)
• 2020/04/28 - La Machine - Bruxelles (Be)
• 2020/04/29 - Le Vecteur - Charleroi (Be)
• 2020/04/30 - Le Grand Mix - Tourcoing (59 - Fr)

New book

Here is a message from Troy about it:

To all my French/English speaking friends, I’m happy to announce that I made a new book for you. It’s called “Caution! Poison Snake! No Entry!”
This book is special because it features the drawings of James Kroll (Bass of Chokebore) and preface + photos by Mathias Malzieu (Singer of Dionysos/Author/Film maker)
It’s a fun and intense book of short stories, flash fiction, and warped lyrics.
The book is in French and English (I’m super happy about this).

“Caution! Poison Snake! No Entry!” will be in the shops in France on April 1st but you can buy it now from Eidola Editions right here.

You can visit him this weekend at the comic festival in Angoulême: he'll be signing his book and play some songs / read.

Production

TvB recently produced a 5 song EP for an artist named “Encre Amer” from Paris where he played instruments, did the production, and mixed the EP. It is “A TvB Production”!
He really enjoyed producing another artist and want to do it much more.
Listen on Bandcamp

Back to school

Troy is also working with kids in Angoulême for a school project. You can read the review on the newspaper below (click on the image to enlarge).

Fall tour

TvB will tour this fall, starting at the end of this month. See all the dates below, and get more details (address, tickets…) on the shows page.

• 2019/08/30 - Black Bass Festival - Braud-­et-­Saint-­Louis (33 - Fr)
• 2019/09/01 - Teriaki Festival - Le Mans (72 - Fr)
• 2019/09/07 - Festival Ouvre la voix - Espiet (33 - Fr)
• 2019/09/20 - Petit Bain - Paris (75 - Fr)
• 2019/09/27 - Médiathèque - Saint-Grégoire (35 - Fr)
• 2019/10/04 - Festival qui sème le son… - Diff'art - Parthenay (79 - Fr)
• 2019/10/05 - La Grange à Musique - Creil (60 - Fr)
• 2019/10/19 - Paloma - Nîmes (30 - Fr)
• 2019/11/13 - Le Groom - Lyon (69 - Fr)
• 2019/11/14 - La Source - Fontaine (38 - Fr)
• 2019/11/15 - La Crypte - Lagorce (07 - Fr)
• 2019/11/16 - MJC Picaud - Cannes (06 - Fr)
• 2019/12/14 - Le Tremplin - Beaumont (63 - Fr)

New live video

You can discover a live video of Manic High filmed in Montpellier by Esus Gläser / Otus Prod for les micro.cosmiques.

Recording & writing

TvB is in the middle of recording the next album. He's also working on a book to be released next year in France.

Today is release day!

"It ends like crazy", TvB's fifth album is now available in stores in France and in digital worldwide. You can also order it online at Vicious Circle store / Vicious Circle store.

New video

You can watch the new video for the song Boys from the new album.

New tour dates

3 shows added:

• 2019/04/19 - La Sainte Dynamo - Toulouse (31 - Fr)
• 2019/06/15 - Gare à la Rochette - Thoré la Rochette (41 - Fr)
• 2019/09/27 - Médiathèque - Saint Grégoire (35 - Fr)

Details on the shows page.

Press

You can read an interview on Nouvelle Vague.

Lyrics

You can discover the words of "It ends like crazy" on the dedicated page.

It ends like crazy: new album out on March 29th 2019

The new album will be released on March 29th, in France for Digipak CD and white vinyl versions, and worldwide for digital.
USA release date info coming soon!

You can already pre-order "It ends like crazy" and listen to the track "Filthy days" from the new album following this link.

Pre-order vinyl or CD: french / english

Tracklisting

1. Rain saves lives
2. Holy something
3. Impale
4. Love me don't
5. Lullaby for psycho
6. Hell
7. Big fat tear
8. I put out
9. Stoned dancers
10. Fighter
11. Invader
12. Boys
13. Filthy days

Book about Chokebore

The book "Chokebore: Days of nothing" written by Thierry Jourdain - from Equilibre Fragile - will be published in late February by Camion Blanc editions.

Tour

TvB will tour this spring: more info soon.