The Playground Presents... The Treeman

THE PLAYGROUND
presents…
Thursday 20th November
93 Feet East, Brick Lane
8pm – 12am
// ADV £8.00 // £10.00 // MOTD
Tickets: www.theplayground.co.uk

THE TREEMAN presents
Voodoo Man
+ guests TBA

THE PLAYGROUND presents THE TREEMAN on Thursday the 20th November at 93 Feet East premiering new works from his upcoming album and lead single “Voodoo Man”.

Every once in a while, a rarity of an act comes along. Dubbed “The Angriest Guitar Player In The World”, a Youtube sensation that has now racked up over 6 million views since it premiered, The Treeman earned his place within Anger Management school kicking and smashing guitars in frustration after repeated attempts to nail the opening to one of his original songs, Ghost Of Love. He since appeared on a number of TV shows including Rude tube, MTV'S ridiculousness, Worlds Dumbest and Clipaholics and even had international band “Queens of the Stone Age” support him on facebook.

"I was having a bad day," says the 49-year-old Treeman of the video that has made him an Internet star. "My picking wasn't what it should have been, and I was getting fed up with myself. Ghost Of Love is very important to me, and I had to get everything perfect. I guess people responded to my intensity."

As Vice puts it: “Do you know the Treeman? You dont!? Go to Youtube right now and search for the angriest guitar player in the world”. there are two clips of an older, maybe not quite mentally stable Liverpudlian, reducing his guitar to splinters in a choking furu over a tricky finger-picking part in a song that kind of sounds like a more northern Robert Wyatt. Watch them both. Thats the Treeman! Nicknamed for the barklike skin condition he’s been afflicted with since youth, John “The Treeman” Ryan has been writing emotionally naked, just barely out of tune acoustic songs in the vein of Daniel Johnstone or a way-less-bullshitty Jandek for the past decade on his lonesome. Then the internet finally made it to him, and now he’s got an endorsement deal with Jagermeister (They sent him a hat), a growing audience of rubberneckers and genuine aficianados, and we’ve got his “Ghost of Love” stuck in our head, which is like hearing someone doing a really obscure La’s song at brainstorm karaoke. Thank you internet!
- VICE MAGAZINE 8-10