TO many veterans in the music business and readers of the one-time NME rival Melody Maker the name Steve Gullick will ring loud bells.
Among many rock lensman he is recognised as something of a legend for his live photographs, capturing the ecstatic chaos of performance, or his intense portraits, casting both rock stars and hopefuls in heroic and iconic light. His shutter was a cruc
ial factor in the early coverage of America's burgeoning underground scene.
A decade on and Gullick still exhibits his photography but also puts himself on the other side of the lens with his band Tenebrous Liar whose new album Last Stand takes them to Sheffield's Gibralter Street tomorrow.
He had been recording songs intermittently since the late '90s, following the purchase of a four-track tape recorder, all over the house for his project ...bender.
Tenebrous began as an outlet for other ideas, before morphing into Tenebrous Liar. Those early solo bathroom recordings evolved, without losing any of their intimacy, honesty or smouldering, macabre power, into a full band playing rock music with a dark and twisted form, haunted by the blues.
Tonight you can catch Rochdale-born bluesman Will Tang at The Boardwalk. His dad used to play in the Hong Kong Philharmonic and granddad was a minister who played the church organ, but Will discovered the harmonica and has since released six blues albums.
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