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That Fucking Tank

THAT FUCKING TANK

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Tank live in Leeds playing The Awesome Magnet with Giles Bailey singing Nov 07
Tank live in Leeds Dec 05
Tank live in Sheffield Feb 06
Tank live in Bletchley April 05
Trailer for Tank Euro Tour DVD released Nov 19th
A two-piece rock band of Leeds. Andy plays odd-strung-and-tuned baritone gtr through a gtr and bass amp using a morley switch pedal. James plays a bass drum, snare drum and cymbals with sticks in his hands. Formed as a sad joke and perpetuated by lies, 'the tank' (or Death Fucking Tank as they are known in Belgium) have played many, many gigs ranging from a bedroom in a Barcelonian pent-house to an outdoor tramp-infested festival in Derby. And everything in between.
James and Andy have been blessed with the ability and nonce to visit and play throughout Spain in September 2004; Belgium, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Switzerland and more with excellent twats Poltergroom in December 2004; an adventure around the UK in April 2005 with Spanish furry synth-counterparts Grabba Grabba Tape. In August 2005 they played at Sant Feliu hardcore festival alongside Unsane, Today is the Day, Enon and Lungfish, swam and snorkled and drank beer. There largest tour to date was shortened by a mump infestation in Europe, April 2006. A short tour of the UK with heroes US Maple occured in July 2006. That Fucking Tank have also had the good fortune to play with a ton of their contemporaries like Hella, The Fucking Champs, Don Caballero, Oxes, Hoover, Kid Commando, Vialka, Whitehouse, Wolf Eyes, AIDS Wolf, GI Joe, Hot Snakes, Chevreuil, Q and not U, Ex Models, Stinking Lizaveta, Clara Clara and the like.
That Fucking Tank have recorded things and those things have become available to the public. The first instance became 'A Document of the First Set', recorded in a few brief moments in the top of a pub before a William E Whitmore gig. Jealous records turned it into a cd and that came out march 2004ish.Then they wrote another song and it was called 'Making a meal for Beethoven', it was good so James recorded it on to 4 track porta-studio in Mook rehearsal studios and it got put on the Obscene Baby Auction compilation 12" 'Old Baby Sex Scene'. Then after a full jaunt round Europe a great man called Moz recorded That Fucking Tank's new set of songs in Hall Place rehearsal space using 2 microphones. It was 28th December 2004 and the sounds on this here internet are off that. Another 8 minutes of it got put on to one side of a 7" where the other side contained 4 Grabba Grabba Tape songs. The 8 minutes got named Andrew and James. They sold this when they toured UK but may have some left. A version of 'Red' by King Crimson was attempted and that got released as a split 7 inch with excellent Monster Killed by Laser who also do a King Crimson song. That is on Run of the Mill Records. Finally it was appropriate timing to record full and proper so Andy and James went to a Bed and Breakfast in North Wales with uber-producer Robert Whiteley. They played in a big barn filled with ace microphones for a couple of hours and Rob captured it in his computer. This became the album 'Day of Death by Bono Adrenalin Shock' dedicated to U2's bell-end front dwarf.
That Fucking Tank then wrote a load of new songs using Andy's especially weighty aluminium baritone guitar made by the electrical guitar company. These songs were longer and required singering to make them more interesting. Enter long-time compadre, ex-Kill Yourself and Danananaykroyd fronter and nicely housed vegan Giles Bailey. Two songs were recorded in the packhorse pub by Ben Gardner and have made it out as a 7 inch picture-disc record with free two-piece Euro tour DVD so you can see what it's really like touring arbout in a Renault Kangoo.
That Fucking Tank like to tour, can play anywhere and are fully self-sufficient. Give them space to play, food, booze and petrol money and watch them go. Please get in touch.
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Member Since: 8/4/2005
Band Website: thatfuckingtank.com
Band Members: Andrew Derek Ross Abbott - Baritone guitar
Giles Edmund Joseph Bailey - Vocals and noise
James Richard Islip - Drums
Influences: Swimming in rivers in Zurich, the M1, Death-Buzzards circling Spanish petrol stations, Basements and Bedrooms.
Sounds Like: 'War' by Joe Satriani without any solos.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Kill Yourself "Boys Is Over"

The long lost Kill Yourself album is now available to download and stream at http://www.last.fm/music/Kill+Yourself/Boys+Is+Over?autostar tJames found it in his cellar. Peace sells buy buy buy...
Posted by That Fucking Tank on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:32:00 PST

Stuff & nonsense - March 2008

Hi friends, Firstly, we’d like to extend a big thanks to everyone who put their fingers in last month’s UK tour pie. It was a fun week. Manfest was a cracking triumph and dates are in the...
Posted by That Fucking Tank on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:10:00 PST

Buy our new record and have a look at it here

Order it now from on the bone records today: http://www.onthebonerecords.com/releases.htmIt comes packed with a free 30 minute tour DVD as well.Out in stores in Leeds tomorrow 21st November and 22nd i...
Posted by That Fucking Tank on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:09:00 PST

New single track up until 10th November 2007

we're putting up our new single 'the awesome magnet' on our myspace for a short while before the single gets released at our launch gig on 10th november. this'll give you plenty of time to learn all t...
Posted by That Fucking Tank on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:14:00 PST

New Tank record in shops 19th November

That Fucking TankThe Awesome MagnetOTB0057"Picture Disc/DVD/DLReleased - 19th November MondayPre-order - 5th November Monday from - http://www.onthebonerecords.com/releases.htmA limited edition A/B-si...
Posted by That Fucking Tank on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:35:00 PST

Back from tour. Big thanks to give. New stuff.

Thanks to everyone who organised gigs, came to gigs, made food, ate with us, showed us beautiful places etc. The tour was great and we enjoyed seeing everyone muchly. A small film will follow once And...
Posted by That Fucking Tank on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:52:00 PST

Tank and other music videos from Leeds types

Hello myspace friends,I've uploaded a load of footage from tapes in my camcorder on to the internet in preparation for our Euro tour video diary. You can watch all the guff herehttp://www.youtube.com/...
Posted by That Fucking Tank on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:38:00 PST

Tank in Milton Keynes video

this is a video of the perfromance from 2005 that we got the photo for the album inlay from.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2QEyLqrPUgthanks to 'BenDavy'we will return again to Bletchley when we have ...
Posted by That Fucking Tank on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:23:00 PST

New Website Online

Things to read. Things to put on Michael Portillo's iPod. Lovely intro picture by Coxy from Manchester - cheers Mate! www.thatfuckingtank.com ...
Posted by That Fucking Tank on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:29:00 PST

Draw That Fucking Tank

We need images for our new website and drawings would be lovely! Email any crap or good to [email protected] Thanks x...
Posted by That Fucking Tank on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:01:00 PST