Tunnel Toughs

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Tunnel Toughs

Tunnel Toughs

An improvisation feedback project using electric guitars, bass, drums, theremin and pedals. Featuring Neil Smith, Nik Young, David Hopkinson, Rasha Shaheen.

We have currently played one show which featured Daisy Palmer on drums.

Rottenmeats review of Cooler gig
Not the brain dripping out of your ears, feedback set I expected from this new incarnation of the Liftmen – The Tunnel Toughs, but never the less the shapes they were putting out were beautifully fragmented, cast from an unusual palette. It must be said, Rasha and company sure play a wide field with a deft hand, as nifty sonic textures bled circuit saturated colours , sometimes all solid bass boom, others, loose and wobbly full of scar tissue... I swear when you closed your eyes it didn't sound like it was made from guitar/drums etc at all. They took the sound to interesting places, that dot / dash punctuating at the end of their set, was like a comedy makeover of one of John Cage's prepared pieces, pianos replaced by depth charged spanners... a musical moment I'll never fail to forget... and there's me thinking there wasn't enough humour in music.

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