Venice Gas House Trolley

Rock and Fire Flowpoetry

I'm On The Trolley Headed Back To You





Venice Gas House Trolley is a cerebral groove.  Based out of Madison, WI, the band initially hearkens back to ancient times when folks would freak out digging ecstatic poets and musicians and then explodes through the present and into the future with vocal effects, bass, and twisting rhythms. The group's sound and content encompasses groovy funk, aggressive jam, tribal rock, high and lonesome country, avant-garde jazz and ambient chill.   The group features the words and voice of Adam Gregory Pergament, a finalist for the 2009 MNSWA "Urban Griot" International/National Performer of the Year and two time Madison Area Music Awards finalist, Tim Peeters, a Madison Area Music Award winner on bass. Josh Pultorak  is on drums and Nikk Cramer plays guitar in the group.




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"Venice Gas House Trolley lean more toward Funkadelic.... [And] the band as a whole can keep up with [Pergament's] eccentricity via slinky-funky bass and drums, flute, and a variety of careful melodic and atmospheric interjections. ...Pergament's voice [is] raspy and heavy over the cool suspense-building [music of the band].

The Onion (Madison) A.V. Club (Mar 18, 2010)


"The Trolley carves out a tribal, ambient, dreamy vibe.... They're a musical group that have finally arrived."

The Isthmus (Madison, WI) (Feb 2010)


"Rhythm comes first [with Venice Gas House Trolley]. The band layers Pergament's spoken word over jazz-funk-rock-jam."

The Capital Times 77 Square Entertainment Section (Mar 2010)


"...a sound that doesn't shrivel when the meters swell into a rant."

The Isthmus (Madison, WI) (Feb 2009)


[Adam Gregory Pergament is] one of the most unique and riveting performers on the Midwestern musical and artistic landscape.  The group [Venice Gas House Trolley] is on the cutting edge of the nationwide expansion of new forms of spoken word and includes two Madison-area Music Award finalists.  The band is unique, theatrical and musical." 

DeKalb Chronicle (DeKalb, IL)


"...very chill yet gripping.  The band [Venice Gas House Trolley] is on a mission to bridge the gap between poetry and music and does so....  ...some hip jive, Cat Daddy." 

Gaper's Block Presents: Transmission (Chicago, IL)


"Words flowing over bass and drums thrumming jazz, groove, folk, country, blues, psychedelic, jam. Man!" The Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA)


"These are no frail photocopy-folk tunes, but rather legends and tales drawn from a deep well of historical experience; stories that place the listener into the leather boots of the prospectors and drifters they depict.  When you hear music created by an American ghost, it gets you to your bones.  Right down to the fiber of that human part of you." 

Emmie Magazine (Madison, WI)

*Venice Gas House Trolley CDs are available now!  Please click here to learn more.*

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Venice Gas House Trolley Up-Coming


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**Photos: Live at The Varsity Theater, Minneapolis, MN

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