That Fucking Tank is Andy Abbott and James Islip. They have been playing music together since pre-teenhood when they met at school in 1991. Tank was formed in Leeds as a one-off performance utilising some novelty equipment – a baritone guitar tuned to play bass and guitar lines simultaneously through two amps, and a minimal drum set – which kept on going.
Live performances once relied on masks, few clothes, lots of sweat and extreme volume as a mediator for the ‘minimal riff disco’ pumped out by the duo. This era, captured on releases through Jealous Records (the e.p ‘A Document of the First Set’ and 2006′s ‘Day of Death by Bono Adrenalin Shock’), took Andy and James all over Europe playing established festivals like Sant Feliu, BBC Radio One Maida Vale sessions and touring and supporting peers from the UK, Europe and the USA including Hella, Oxes, Whitehouse, Foals, US Maple, The Fucking Champs, Vialka, Unsane, Lungfish, Melt Banana, and Don Caballero to name a few.
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