Music
Making a Meal For Beethoven
From the 2006 album 'Day of Death by Bono Adrenalin Shock' (Jealous Records)
Keanu Reef
From the 2009 album 'Tanknology' (Gringo Records)
NWONWOBHM from TFT, 2012 (Gringo Records)
Next Gigs
Friday April 28th: Milton Keynes party, venue TBC
Friday June 8th: Gringo Records Birthday Party, Nottingham
17/18/19 August: Beacons Festival
Bio
That Fucking Tank is a band that operates on DIY principles; booking gigs, recording records and making music in a way that contributes towards the creation of alternative spaces to the boring mechanisms of 'industry', and challenging the assumption that 'good' music has to be made 'professionally' (i.e as a job).
That Fucking Tank was formed in 2004 for a one-off performance by friends-since-school Andy Abbott and James Islip who met over an owl.
Andy plays a specially tuned baritone guitar through guitar and bass amplifiers, James plays a minimal drum kit. Their novel name, energetic performances and manish volume saw them play all over Europe and the UK with brain-mangling regularity, sharing stages and tours with bands including Hella, Q and not U, Lungfish, Oxes, Unsane, Kid Commando, GI Joe, Chevreuil, Grabba Grabba Tape, Poltergroom, US Maple, Neptune, Whitehouse, AIDS Wolf, Vialka, Nervous Kid, Don Caballero, The Fucking Champs, Hoover and the like.
This period of the band birthed the Document of the First Set e.p (2004) and Day of Death by Bono Adrenalin Shock (2006) both released by Jealous Records.
Relentless touring, emigration from LS6 area of Leeds and growing responsibilities outside of music saw the duo playing gigs at a more regular pace in 2007. In 2008 That Fucking Tank fulfilled a teenage fantasy by playing on a bill with Metallica at Leeds and Reading Festivals.
2009's Tanknology album (Gringo Records) received smatterings of positive mainstream press attention and formed the spine of the duo's live sets for the next two years.
In 2011, Tank returned to the rehearsal space and studio to write and record new tracks that became their third album TFT. Described by the band as an autobiographical concept album about the music journey the pair have embarked on over the last 20 years, TFT was given an initial short-run on vinyl (that the band took on a European tour) and was released officially by Gringo Records on March 12th, 2012.