Performance Times
1pm, Sunday
Bucketty's
5pm, Sunday
Torraca
Overview
As well as performing solo, Northern Beaches local Ian ‘the Pump’ Macintosh co-founded Australia’s popular Wheeze & Suck Band, and today fronts Wheezer's offshoot, the Traditional Graffiti Band. He is also a member of ‘TRI’, a UK/Australia trio creating roots-based rock and electronica. His chosen instruments are guitar, bottleneck and melodeon.
A regular performer of traditional and original Folk and Blues material at clubs, bars and festivals in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, Ian has also won the Australian Songwriters award (2009 - ‘Rag and Bone’), and has been a finalist in two MusicOz song writing competitions.
In May 2023 Pump performed with his band TRI in the UK for the first time since COVID.
The Pump has released seven albums with the Wheeze & Suck Band, two albums with Traditional Graffiti, and has two Pump solo albums available at gigs and online.
Check out the Pump on his web site or Facebook page & Bandscape for free downloads, plus individual track and album purchases. TRI album 'Soddem & Begorrah' is available via Apple, Spotify etc.
