Editing The Trons

[[image:Trons.jpg|right|thumb|''The Trons'', screenshot from video]]
''The Trons'' are an all robot band, comprising ''Ham Hornhead'' (lead guitar, vocals), ''Wiggy'' (guitar), ''Swamp'' (drums) and ''Fifi Farfisa'' (keyboards). Each member has meccano fingers, run by computer. They were created, and are managed and programmed, by [[Greg Locke]]. The bands debut live performances were at the 2008 Hamilton "Ignition Fringe Festival", at [[Garden Place]] (June 13), [[The Meteor]] (June 15) and the [[Night of the Freakin Hamiltrons]] finale (June 20). <br>

[[image:thetrons.jpg|left|thumb|''The Trons'' album cover]]
The band achieved rapid local and international attention. On 11 June 2008, the video 'Sister Robot' was uploaded to YouTube. By 18 June ''Locke'' had appeared on ''Campbell Live'' about the project, and made the front page of the [[Waikato Times]] on 24 June. Within one week of the ''Sister Robot'' video being posted on YouTube it had achieved >50000 views, and exceeded 100000 by 20 June, being one of the most popular New Zealand videos in that time. Between 25 June and 1 July, ''Sister Robot'' was a YouTube "featured video", being linked from the YouTube front page; during this time it achieved ''c.'' 100000 views per day, exceeding 800000 by the time the link was removed on 1 July. The hit rate of the video slowed after this time, but reached the one million mark on 12 September 2008. On 1 July 2008 the bands second video was released on YouTube, ''Trons Theme''. The end of 2008 saw ''Fifi Farfisa'' launch her own solo career.<br>

Since finding YouTube success, gigs have included Auckland's the ''Dogs Bollix'' in mid-August 2008, and a three-date tour of the South Island in mid-September. In late September ''The Trons'' were flown to France by car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz to play at the Paris Auto Show. 2009 also started strongly with a performance by ''the Trons'' at ''Big Day Out'' on 19 January. <br>

In 2010, ''The Trons'' released their first EP, [[Sister Robot]], followed by the album [[The Trons (album)|The Trons]]. As well as playing many gigs around New Zealand, in 2012 ''The Trons'' also played in Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne and Perth.

In 2020, the song ''Cranberry Boogie'' appeared on the compilation [[In Thrust We Trust]].

==Published Articles==
* ''The Trons'', [[Mammoth]] 8, June 2-June 15 2008
* ''Robots Rock the World'', [[Waikato Times]], 24 June 2008, P1
* ''Half Man, Half Machines'' by [[Jeff Neems]], [[Waikato Times]], 28 June 2008, pD1
* ''I, Robot'' by ''David Farrier'', [[Rip it Up]] 324 (August/September 2008), p20
* ''The Trons are Heading to Paris to Promote New Mercedes'' by [[Jeff Neems]], [[Waikato Times]], 29 September 2008, P1
* ''The Trons added to Big Day Out line-up'', [[Hamilton Press]], 7 January 2009, P2
* ''Robots of rock unLocke new noise'', [[Waikato Times]], 15 November 2010

==External Links==
* [http://www.myspace.com/thtrons ''The Trons'' MySpace page]
* [http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/thetrons ''The Trons'' Facebook page]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trons ''The Trons'' Wikipedia page]
* [http://www.myspace.com/fififarfisa Fifi Farfisa's MySpace page]

* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=c2JChnwv2Ws ''The Trons'' "Sister Robot" video (YouTube)]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iytflNt77PU ''The Trons'' "Trons Theme" video (YouTube)]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUUdFXwAYRs ''The Trons'' interview on Campbell Live, 18 June 2008 (YouTube)]

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