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Tomás Ford: Biography

If you read his reviews or talk to his fans, it is quickly apparent that no two descriptions of Tomás Ford are the same. And while that opens the door for elaborate and fanciful description, the truth requires nothing more than sheer simplicity… In the truest sense of the word, Tomás Ford is an entertainer.

In his hometown of Perth, where he is a five-times WAMi-nominated artist, Tomás Ford has become somewhat of an institution, and, strangely enough; a bridge between different worlds. The electro crowd love him because he has an ear for a beat, the indie crowd love him because he has an eye for visual art, and the punks love him because he’s mad as fuck.

His first shows more or less consisted of what he had at the time: a laptop full of weird evil-disco, a microphone, a couple of milk crates and a hurricane of ‘don’t know what else to do with it’ energy. It was Spartan, but the shows were electrifying and strange. The press surrounding Tomás Ford’s ‘arrival’ was almost as amusing as the shows themselves… nobody ever quite knew what to make of Tomás other than unanimously agreeing he was both weird and brilliant. 

The more the word spread, the bigger the stages got… and the bigger the stages got, the bigger Tomás made his show. Having toured nationally on his own, with the likes of Birds Of Tokyo, and as part of Big Day Out; Tomás is an artistic chameleon – and as much as he is a festival staple, his recent audio/visual extravaganza at Perth’s historic Astor Theatre showed where Tomás truly shines… as the Artistic Director, nay Curator, of his own vision.

And as Tomás Ford’s road keeps forking off in new and unexpected directions, so too does the man himself - ever the mad scientist with a lightning storm of ideas. As an artist, Tomás Ford is driven to keep searching. To keep creating. As a performer, he is driven by the adrenalin and escapism that comes when Mr Hyde takes over.

And although everybody describes Tomás Ford in a somewhat different way, every single person who witnesses a Tomás Ford show leaves with a smile on their face. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is entertainment.

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