Planningtorock joins team Littlebig!

January 11, 2008

Littlebig proudly welcome to the roster the newly crowned queen of the avant-garde, Janine Rostron, aka Planningtorock!

British born Janine Rostron lets loose her outstanding debut album“Have It All” from the German capital. She arrived in Berlin with big plans, and now the results are being heard. And its' only the beginning!

A boundry shattering musical vision thats bursting with unique character and vocal backbone with its own undeniable signature sound….

PTR´s infamous pizzicato bass styles pulsate with irresistible plucked-string production together with a vivid mix of “barrelhouse boogie-woogie pianos with ridiculous xylophone trills, honkytonk horn sleaze, bluesy growls, and creepy coos”* Proving to us that PTRs talents are as strong as her vision.

Running parallel to completeing her album, Planningtorock has been touring her 'larger-than-life' one-women show extensivly throughout Europe and the US.... A live experience best described as a mind-blowing show of passionate pop entertainment and thought provoking performance art. Filled with bizzare make-believe characters which parade on video Screens whilst PTR unleaches her wild and highly charged vocals “its the power of Rostrons brandy-and-cigarettes voice that clinches the deal”* out from underneath homemade helmets and self-styled props..... A magnetic and powerful perfomer who´s remarkable live show is downright addictive!

*Drew Daniel (Matmos/Soft Pink Truth) /Pitchfork/march-2006

"Part Jarvis Cocker, part Wendy Carlos, its an arresting outsider spectacle, ´Have it All´ is a raunchy synthesis of Bowie, Bolan and Joplin"
TANK magazine Oct 2006

"Neo-vaudevillian kaleidoscope of a record, its vigorous and defiant, littered with off kilter touches"
WIRE June 2006

"I´m getting a record that is super fucking weird but also
satisfyingly mind-blowing."
VICE magazine July 2006

"Music that makes you think; a riot of originality that not only celebrates difference and eccentricity but which positively embraces it!"
DJ magazine June 2006

"Have It all is unique and sounds like nothing else that´s come out this year.....her vocals are pure, expressive, and souful"
PITCHFORK Aug 2006

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