Central Committee present The Breedling – Tenebrous Liar – Empty Cut – The Tin Coventry – Friday, September 5, 2025 – Live Review
The excellent Central Committee presented an evening of noise at the Tin a couple of Fridays ago featuring The Breedling, Tenebrous Liar and Empty Cut . The writer didn’t make it as he was indisposed so friend of Fighting Boredom Tim took on the writing duties and managed to write the shortest and most concise live reviews we have seen for a long time, here’s what they both thought.
Friday night at The Tin Music and Arts and I’m on a date with The FB Snapper to see 3 bands on a bill
curated by top local promoters Central Committee. Gunther Prague won’t be playing, having pulled out
with an injury, but we’ll see a quality replacement instead. The FB Scribbler will also be missing,
presumed dreadful scenes in the bathroom, and his poor quality replacement will be me.
We kick off with Birmingham’s Empty Cut. Douglas Smith bashes his drums and Robert Bollard pummels
his bass and hollers over the top of it all. There are squelches and squiggles from boxes of electronics to
provide some colour and they impress with a set of top notch punky industrial metal tunes.
The meat in tonight’s sandwich comes in the form of Tenebrous Liar, Fronted by singer/guitarist Steve
Gullick, their songs are tight, hypnotic rock’n’roll strollers summoning images of vampire goats in
Mexican deserts. Tom Glendining (drums), Aimee Lovric (guitar) and Brendan Casey (bass) drive it all
along in fine style. Gullick’s yowling and feedback squalling gets a bit tiresome after a while but that’s
just me. They go down a storm nevertheless.
Taking us in a different direction is tonight’s headliner Chris Spalton, on stage tonight as The Breedling.
Hunched over his laptop, Spalton builds up dank, crepuscular soundscapes (yeah, sorry) to summon
images of “brutal beheadings, slaughter, Hereward the Wake, Witch-Finder Generals, Seahenge and
murder in the name of self-defence in a remote farmhouse” WTF and you have to know this guy’s from
Norwich and we’re in (film director) Ben Wheatley territory when it comes down to how it’s all looking
inside your head. It’s brutal industrial techno for cowering from rather than dancing to and it’s a thrilling
way to bring the evening to a close.
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Empty Cut
Tenebrous Liar
The Breedling
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The Breedling’s website is thebreedling.com they are also on Bandcamp and Instagram.
Tenebrous Liar are on Bandcamp, Instagram and Facebook.
Empty Cut are on Bandcamp, Instagram and Facebook.
All words by Tim Poulter, all pictures by Martin Ward.
