Part two of our interview with Nathan Holiday, founding member of Tunnel Canary. In part 2 Nathan outlines the formation of TC and the philosophy behind the project.
Nathan Holiday, founding member of extreme noise-punk vanguards Tunnel Canary, talks about his earliest experiences of punk rock and the Vancouver music scene.
Tunnel Canary used cheap, customized electronic technology, employed bold fashion and gesture in their performance, and unleashed an extreme musical statement upon their audiences. Back in 1979, few people knew how to describe Tunnel Canary's free-flowing, largely improvised wall of noise, featuring cascading sheets of cathartic rage and abject fury interposed with feedback and drone-like passages...