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Tasha Fights Tigers is an experimental rock band from North London, UK. Founded in late 2007 they played their first gig at The Miller, London Bridge in September 2007. Playing material from singer/guitarist Bill Hooper's back-catalogue of home recordings, the band prides themselves on an eclectic repetoire - juxtaposing visceral, angry aural assaults with gentle lullabies.
Finding it difficult to translate the "kitchen sink" style instrumentation of the recordings in a live environment, Hooper began alternating between synth and guitar to 'bridge the gap' whilst bassist, Gid, employs heavy bass distortion and bass synthesiser effects. After a succession of drummers in such a short space of time, they finally settled with Ivan Marsulis.
Tasha Fights Tigers' fourth member is Mark Garvey. Garvey is the visual element of the band - directing and producing the band's videos, creating CD artwork, gig fliers, and ocassionally VJ-ing at gigs. From their myspace website:
"There's a room. Battered old synthesizers litter the lefthand side and ancient amplifiers and drums take up the right. Circuit-bent kids' toys lie on the floor bleeping and buzzing by their own volition as a doll's head ashtray brims over on one of the amps. Through the smoke, in the corner, sits Ivan beating seven shades of shit out of his electro-hybrid drumkit. Next to him bounces Gid, providing more funk and fuzz than an electro-filth band generally serves you with. Screaming and thrashing around, Bill yelps and growls his way through each song. And the twisted images projected on to the back wall throughout? They're the work of Garvey. Welcome to Tasha Fights Tigers."[1]
With a batch of brand new material in the form of Hooper's DIY lo-fi collection The Tapeworm Thrash, Tasha Fights Tigers hope to follow in the footsteps of such indie behemoths as Dinosaur Jr[[1]] and Sebadoh[[2]].
