Blim presents:
The Woodwards w/guests
Saturday October 2 | 8 PM – 12 AM | $10
Featuring: Peter Schuyff
The Woodwards is the musical alter ego of renowned modern artist Peter Schuyff. The Woodwards will be joined on the evening by folk-noir starlet Signe Tollefsen who’s eponymous new album is currently receiving rave reviews across Europe.
Peter Schuyff was born in the Netherlands in 1958 and left in 1967. His ambitions as an artist brought him to New York at age 18. During most of the eighties and nineties he lived at the Chelsea Hotel where his art was collected by Dennis Hopper and Sylvester Stallone amongst others; he is given high-profile commissions by Gianna Versace. His work can be seen at schuyff.com. Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Jean Michael Basquiat are friends and colleagues. Herbert Hunke, Dee Dee Ramone and whatsisname, the guy who married Uma Thurman are friends and neighbors.
All this is still not enough and so after the turn of the new century, without ever having so much as gargled in the shower, he starts writing and singing songs. Peter says that these songs are the paintings he has always wanted to make. He moves Amsterdam and records his first album. The Woodwards’ remarkable eponymous 2009 debut album was produced by Attie Bauw (Judas Priest, Bootsie Collins, Simple Minds) and featured Rob Kloet (The Nits) on drums, Gwen Cresens (Fréderique Spigt) on bandonion, and Signe Tollefsen’s backing vocals.
The single ‘I wanna woman’ was released with an accompanying music video directed by Tycho van Zijderveld which can be viewed here.
Since then The Woodwards’ has joined Lucky Fonz III on a 2009 Netherlands theatre tour, toured the UK in April 2010 and will be touring North America (September) and the UK (November) later in the year.
After The Woodwards’ haunting first release Peter went back to writing, and after a surprisingly short amount of time emerged with a sound replete with lush harmonized vocals; courtesy of the Ursula Peterson trio which includes folk-noir starlet Signe Tollefsen. The Ursula Peterson trio now join Peter during live shows.
The Woodwards’ upcoming ‘Burn Everything EP’ is out on Mixtup Records in August 2010.
Peter first moved to Vancouver in 1967, where he later attended the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr College of Art). Peter exhibited his paintings extensively around Vancouver before moving to New York at the age of 18 where his career as a painter took off. Peter now returns to Vancouver as The Woodwards to promote the release his latest EP ‘Burn Everything’.
More information available at:
myspace.com/thewoodwards
myspace.com/signetollefsen
mixtup.nl (the record label)
Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for information.
