December 10, 2011 Tonesucker play at OCCII (Onafhankelijk Cultureel Centrum In It) in Amsterdam. Other artists on the bill include WIlliam Bennett (Cut Hands), Robert B. Lisek, André Castro and Jesus Is A Noise Commander.
December 9, 2011 Tonesucker play at WORM – Instituut voor Avantgardistische Recreatie – in Rotterdam. Also on the bill are Christian Galarreta, Robert B. Lisek and Andre Castro. [Photograph by Petr Kazil - click on image to see a video clip from the performance.]
October 27, 2011 Tonesucker play at Chronophonics #1, the first Onoma Research promotion. Also playing live are, Brideburger, Menagerie and Ryan Jordan, along with a bill of experimental film. Free CHRONOPHONCIS VOLUME 1 CD with entry. The Grinning Rat, St Helen's Street, Ipswich.
August 26, 2011 Toneucker play The Opening at nnnnn. Billed as "An evening of (dis)information, possession, trance, crash worship, life coding, rough music, electronic resistance and contemporary folklore". Also playing are: Phil Julian, Tim Drage, Andy Bolus, Jamka, Jonathan Kemp, Martin Howse, Noriko Matsumoto, Ryan Jordan, Ryoko Akama and Xname. Unit 73a, Regent Studios, 8 Andrew's Road, E8 4QN. (Off Broadway Market, alongside the canal.)
May 5, 2011 Tonesucker take part in a Noise=Noise event at ]performancespace[, Unit 6, Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, London, E9 5EN. "Dark Hypnosis… Psychoactive Noise… Fragmented Performance". Also playing are Ryan, Jordan, Ewa Justka, Andre Castro, Pani K, Xname, EQ-AV, Shelley Parker, Toe, Aqua Dentata, Russell Callow, John Macedo, Jamka, Sz.Berlin, Vera Bremerton, and others TBA. 8pm to late/early am.
April 29, 2011 Tonesucker and Ryan Jordan find themselves billed as authentic Brazilian virtuoso musicians as they play extreme noise sets to a possibly surprised/hostile audience at Brasilia Café, Ipswich.
February 3, 2011 Tonesucker perform at The Others, Stoke Newington. The concert will be broadcast live on Ill FM. Details of other bands to come.
January 22, 2011 Tonesucker perform at the first Post Modular Pop-up at Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, Vauxhall, London. The event is sponsored by Post Modular, Britain's leading importer of Eurorack-format analog synth modules. The event runs from 9am to 3pm. Tonesucker will perform a 30-minute set at around 12pm.
January 21, 2011 Tonesucker's fifth release – the CD live album Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas (Onoma7) is available from Onoma Research. Copies will be given away at Post Modular Pop-up on January 22 and The Others on February 3.
December 29, 2010 Tonesucker celebrate Johnnymas and mark the 30th anniversary of the Rendlesham UFO incident with Martin Briggs, Eddie Nuttall and Ryan Jordan at McGinty's in Ipswich.
November 27, 2010 Weather conditions prevent Tonesucker taking part in a Noise=Noise event at the Rat in Camberwell. Humble apologies are offered.
October 14, 2010 Tonesucker take part in a Random Camel Collective event at The Beerhouse, Ipswich. Also playing are Toe and Brideburger.
July 3, 2010 Tonesucker take part in Knowledge Of The Hidden, at The Barbican, London – a paranormal-themed evening of noise-related activity curated by Ryan Jordan.
May 13, 2010 Tonesucker play at "noisenoisenoisenoisenoisenoisenoisenoisenoise" at Butcher's Corner (302 New Cross Road, London). Also performing are: Russell Callow, Medžitlija-Níki, Peter A, Andy Pitchless, Vultures, Joel Cahen, Zlatko Baracskai and Eaten By Children.
April 9, 2010 Tonesucker perform at The Montague Arms, New Cross, London. [Photo by Steve Xerri.]
March 13, 2010 Tonesucker perform at The Foundry, London – probably for the last time before its closure. Also playing are: Hylics; Cheapmachines; Tim Goldie, Iron Fist of the Sun; Jamka, Ctrl-N & Paul Ramshaw; Mike McInerney & Zlato Baracskai; John Wall & Alex Rogers; VJ Flickering Light. [Photo by Geri McKewen.]
March 7, 2010 Tonesucker perform/record/film in Dizant, France.
March 5, 2010 Tonesucker peform at Beyond Signal #9 at APO33, 17 Rue Paul Bellamy, 44000 Nantes, France. Also playing together are Kasper Toeplitz & Julian Ottavi. Begins at 8pm.
December 29, 2009 The Curiosity Collective and Noise=Noise celebrate Johnnymas by presenting Ryan Jordan, Tonesucker, Julian Ottavi and Pixelpusher at PJ McGinty's, Northgate Street, Ipswich. 8-11 pm.
DECEMBER 2009. SPECIAL NOTICE. IT LOOKS LIKE SOME OF THE COPIES OF ONOMA6 (LIVE IN LONDON) THAT WERE GIVEN AWAY AT THE OTHERS ON DECEMBER 3 WERE FAULTY, AND HAVE NO AUDIO. [NO QUIPS NECESSARY, THANK YOU!] TO GET A REPLACEMENT COPY CONTACT US. WE'LL ALSO BRING SOME SPARES TO THE NEXT GIGS. SORRY!
December 5, 2009 Tonesucker gatecrash All Tomorrow's Parties: The NIghtmare Before Xmas in Minehead. Additionally, audio is streamed live to Noise=Noise #15 at the Foundry, London.
December 4, 2009 Tonesucker release their second DVD EP, Live In London (Onoma6). It features the live audio performance from The Monty in October accompanied by the evening's back-projected film.
December 3, 2009 Tonesucker perform at The Others, 6-8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington, N16. Also playing are: ANTIchildLEAGUE, Shift, Vultures and DJ Poison Creeper. The event is also broadcast on Ill FM and should soon be viewable on Ill FM's archives.
October 20, 2009 Tonesucker perform at The Montague Arms, New Cross on Tuesday, October 20. Also playing are Ampersand, Ryan Jordan and Digit (from Hungary).
August 1st, 2009 Tonesucker perform at The Foundry, Old Street, London on Saturday, August 1. Also playing were Ampersand, Foul Geese, Cementimental and Sloppy Seconds: "Fragmented sounds, DIY punk noise, flicker drone static, electronic alchemy, metal soundscapes".
July 31, 2009 Tonesucker release DVD EP, Caput Mortuum. It features material used in the live Metallica mash-up at The Foundry on March 28, 2009.
June 19, 2009 Tonesucker take part in the NOISE=NOISE /// BEYOND SIGNAL event at The Foundry, Old Street, London. They perform using home-built Arduino Noise Machines, crackle boxes, files and Nintendo DS. Also playing are: Ryan Jordan, Julien Ottavi, Half Dupio, Ry-Om, Antonius, Domenico Sciajno and Gadarene. [Original photo by Kim Price.]
June 19, 2009 Tonesucker release second CD album, Live In Canada. It features a single improvisation performed in 2006 for Tone Deaf IV, a festival based in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
March 28, 2009 Tonesucker take part in NOISE=NOISE at The Foundry, Old Street, London. Terry Burrows [Nintendo DS, electronics] and Steve Elsey [electronics] perform at the venue; John Bowers' contribution comes live from the O2 Arena where he feeds a live signal from the Metallica concert via his iPhone. This signal is mashed up and generally abused in a variety of interesting ways, forming the audio core of the performance. Accompanying the performance is John Bowers' film, Requiem. Also featured were Vultures, Ry-Om, Ampersand and Ryan Jordan.
January 11, 2009 Stuart Maconie gives an airing to Tonesucker's "Splatterstrum" on his BBC6 Freak Zone show. It is sandwiched between Caravan's "In the Land of Grey and Pink" and Cornelius Cardew's "Solidarity Song".
July 15, 2008 Review of Tonesucker's album Slaughterhouse by Pascal Ansell in DISKANT webzine. [Click on image.]
April 26, 2008 Tonesucker (Left-to-right: Terry Burrows, Steve Elsey, John Bowers) take part in live TV broadcast from Studio 3, Epic Studios, Norwich, UK to a location in Lithuania.
19 April, 2008 The Killing of St Alphrege. Live webcast of sound and moving image marking the the anniversary of the killing of Alphrege, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1012. [Click on image to view video.]
15 March, 2008 Beware the Ides of March! Live webcast of sound and moving image marking the assassination of Julius Caeser and in anticipation of the overthrow of all forms of tyranny. [Click on image to view video.]
2 February, 2008 Tonesucker perform as part of the BLAND KRETSAR OCH LJUD MED JOHN BOWERS evening at Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. This event is part of the node.stockholm festival. It is also the band's debut as a trio – including drummer Steven Elsey. [Photograph by Vanessa Yaremchuk. Copyright 2008. Used with permission.]
5 March, 2007 Tonesucker record exclusive track "Splatterstrum" for The Wire Tapper 17 CD, which accompanies the May issue of The Wire magazine.
13 December, 2006 Tonesucker and Sten-olof Hellstrom perform at Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. The event is advertised as "Guitar-noise, ultraheavy synthsounds, primal riffs, drones, turntables, crackleboxes and much more."
3 July, 2006 Release of Slaughterhouse CD
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June 24, 2006 Faster Than Sound Festival, Bentwaters, Suffolk, UK. Tonesucker teams up with Alex Sanders and Liam Wells perform at Faster Than Sound, a festival that claims to be "The first event of its kind joining the dots between DJs, electronica music and other genres, brought to you by artists from across the globe".
June 15 , 2006 Aldeburgh Festival, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK. Murmurations: University of East Anglia Electro-Acoustic Music Studio. Tonesucker (John Bowers, theremin and oscillators; Terry Burrows, theremin and VCS3) team up with Alex Sanders (VCS3) and Liam Wells (Jen, home-built oscillator) to perform a quartet improvisation on vintage electronic equipment as part of the Aldeburgh Festival's main programme.
21 April, 2006 Field recording, Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, UK
21 April, 2006 Field recording, Bourne Park, Suffolk, UK.
11 April, 2006 Recording session for prospective Suffolk album, London, UK
26 January, 2006 Editing and structuring "Shingle Street", London, UK.
29 December 2005 Field recording, Shingle Street, Suffolk, UK.
29 October
2005 Performance at WebJam09,
Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK
(click on image to view video of the performance)
16 October, 2005 Performance at Tone Deaf 4 Festival, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
28 September, 2005 Field recording, Shingle Street, Suffolk, UK
6-8 April 2005, Slaughterhouse session 2, Coddenham, Suffolk, UK. Recording of pieces 4, 5, 6 and 7
3-4 March, 2005 Slaughterhouse session 1, Coddenham, Suffolk, UK. Recording of pieces 1, 2 and 3
8 July, 2004 Tonesucker named