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1. October 2011

2011/10/04

Chokebore - Falls bestChokebore new EP and fall tour

Chokebore is back with a new EP named Falls Best. They'll also tour this fall in Europe, check all the news on Chokebore official site.

Interviews, reviews, live reviews

Lots of new interviews in french: Bandes sonores, Gonzai, Visual Music.
3 reviews of How to live on nothing: HHV mag (de), W-Fenec (fr) & Goûte mes disques (fr).
Live reviews: Rock it to the moon (fr), Mind riot Music (fr), Take a drag or two (fr).
Check the media page.

Photos

Many photos from TvB fall & spring tour: Cave aux poètes - 2010/10/28, Point Ephémère Paris - 2010/11/04, Botanique, Bruxelles, Kmeron - 2011/03/24, La machine Paris, Robert Gil - 2011/04/15, Cabaret Aléatoire, Marseille, Projet BIW - 2011/04/11, Le fil, St Etienne, A taste of Indie - 2011/04/08, La Flaq, Paris, Le Cargo - 2011/04/01.

Acoustic sessions

Several video sessions: Le Cargo - Acoustic session #260, Hartzine - Private Session, La blogothèque - Take away show.

Music score, songs

Besides rehearsing for Chokebore tour, Troy von Balthazar is also currently writing the music score for two films (one French, one German) and recording new songs.

13. April 2011

2011/04/13

A new Born Riot of Dreams opening for Paris show

Don't miss Paris show on Friday: the opening act is Jonathan Kroll's solo project A Newborn Riot of Dreams (he's also known as being Chokebore's lead guitarist, yes...).

New dates added

Three new shows added: 1 at Faveur de Printemps festival in Hyères (Fr), 2 in Poland: Warsaw & Poznan. See Tour page for details.

TvB on Joseph d'Anvers 3rd album

Joseph d'Anvers - Rouge Fer

Troy co-wrote and sings with Joseph d'Anvers on the song (I caught an) Exotic Bird on his 3rd album, Rouge Fer.

Interview

You can read an (interesting) interview of TvB on Yes It's Kool Stuff (en).

22. March 2011

2011/03/22

Spring tour

The spring tour starts this week! Don't miss it!
New dates have been added, please check tour-dates page for details and tickets.

Note that you can subscribe to the events feed to be informed when a date is added.

New video

Yannick Lecoeur shot a video for TvB song Happiness and joy. You can watch it on Vimeo.

Live video

Grand Crew filmed the Troy Von Balthazar show at Point Ephémère, Paris on November 4th 2010. Available for purchase (stream or download), 2 free songs preview (My diamond brain / Communicate).

Magali Boyer TvB photos exhibition

"Troy Von Balthazar Magnified", an exhibition of pictures of Troy Von Balthazar by Magali Boyer will be held in Paris from March 29th to April 23rd at La Flaq (36 rue Quincampoix, 75004 Paris).

The opening night will take place in the presence of Troy Von Balthazar on Thursday March 31st, starting at 6 p.m.

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22. February 2011

2011/02/22

Spring tour

New spring tour: see tour-dates page for details and tickets.
Troy will have a bunch of new songs to play for your pleasure.
He'll be playing with Christian Omar Madrigal Izzo on drums and percussion and Adeline Fargier Jasso on bass/keyboard, same band as for the fall tour, except where "solo" is mentioned.

There'll also be a new TvB tshirt for sale at the shows.

2. January 2011

2011/01/02

Happy new year

It's that time of the year again. Have a nice 2011 full of good music and love.

Reviews, interviews, articles...

Once again, lots of reviews, interviews and articles about TvB's How to live on nothing and the 2010 fall tour.

Reviews: Popnews (fr), La musique à papa (fr), Des oreilles dans babylone (fr), Fensepost (en), Slanted mixtapes (en), Musiczine (fr), Indiepoprock (fr), Alternativ musik (de), Mainstage (de), Indierockmag (fr), France Inter / Didier Varrod (fr), Babysue (en), Leo Weekly (en), Orcasound (en).

Live reviews: Le mauvais coton (fr), Cave aux poètes (fr), les inrocks (fr), Le Bien Public (fr).

Interviews: Take a drag or two (fr), Dark Globe  (fr), Fest magazine (pt/en).

Articles: Telerama (fr), Magnet magazine (en).

TvB LP review: Shoot me again (fr).

See media page.

Special show

A special TvB show will take place at la Machine (du moulin rouge), Paris (Fr) on April 15th. See tour dates page for details and reservation.

17. October 2010

2010/10/18

New tour dates

TvB is opening for Melissa Auf der Maur for 9 shows at the end of fall: see Tour-dates page for details.

Reviews & interviews

Lots of reviews for How to live on nothing: Blueprint (De), Dosen musik (De), Intro (De), Les Inrocks (Fr), Goddeau (Nl), Mowno (Fr), Télémoustique (Be), Le temps (Ch), Froggy's delight (Fr), Beach Brother (Fr), interviews: Magic (Fr), Interlignage (Fr), Froggy's delight (Fr), and a review of the Oliver Peel session # 13, Private gig in an appartment, Paris. See media page.

A flyer, a t-shirt

A new flyer and the new TvB t-shirt for sale at shows on the photo page.

13. September 2010

2010/09/13

How to live on nothing

The new album How to live on nothing is out today on Digipack CD and digital (Europe only for the moment). Released on 3rd side records, you can purchase the 14 tracks LP in stores or via itunes. It'll be available next week in Belgium & Switzerland, and in Germany at the end of September.

You can find the lyrics at the words page, tracklisting, artwork & credits at the discography page.

Review

A review of How to live on nothing on the french magazine Noise #17, another one on US webzine Blow the Scene.

Fall tour

Check the fall tour dates at the tour dates page.

TvB will be touring with Christian Omar Madrigal Izzo (from Chokebore!) on drums and percussion and Adeline Fargier Jasso on bass/keyboard.

Merchandising

A great new TvB shirt, buttons and stickers will be for sale at the shows.

TvB song on the soundtrack of a surf movie

The Troy Von Balthazar song I block the sunlight out is featured in the 2010 award winning surf movie "Fiberglass and megapixels".

A book?

In 2010 book has been written and published in France. The rumour is that the main character is based on the life of TvB.

TVBlog

A new place for TvB to keep things up to date: the TVBlog.

Brand New site version

Completely new site, new design, many new features such as syndication for news & tour dates, maps & hcal & ical utilities for the shows.
New songs added at the audio page, and at the covers page.
More to come soon.

23. August 2010

2010/08/23

New digital ep Dots & Hearts

Available today on all download platforms, including 2 other songs : in limited light and to a girl with one wing gone (electric version).

Videos

See the Dots & Hearts video on Dailymotion
Directed by Troy and Stephane Leonard.

See the video of an acoustic session where TVB plays Alive, a Drugstore cover on Magic website.

The album

The album How To Live On Nothing will be released on september 13th (digital version on september 6th) on 3rd side records.

13. July 2010

2010/07/13

New song to download

Download for free CATT, a new track from Troy Von Balthazar's new album, to be released in september: http://troyvonbalthazar.bandcamp.com/

New video

See the CATT video on Dailymotion
Directed by Ingo Schiller.

7. July 2010

2010/07/07

Single and album release dates

The new single Dots&Hearts is due to august 23th; the album How To Live On Nothing will be released on september 13th (digital version on september 6th) on 3rd side records.

Fall tour

Check the tour dates page for details about the first dates of the TVB fall tour for his new album How To Live On Nothing.

Acoustic session

Watch the TVB SK session for an acoustic version of Wings on Soul Kitchen.

News from Troy

Troy is currently on the road & recording new songs in the south of France with Chokebore.

Press photo

New press photo added: check photo page.

Young TVB fan

A photo added on the site shows a young fan of TVB: will you find it? ;-)

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