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To see TNB, Emil Beaulieau and Merzbow in the same venue in one night is a thrill that will take a while to leave me. The undisputed Kings Of Noise together for the first time on English soil… TNB take the stage, one hooded, one wearing a black, face-covering balaclava and bowler hat sat stage front, drinking from a bottle of wine and apparently doing little else. Tonight they go for the jugular and from the off it’s nothing less than a personal assault on everyone’s hearing. It’s a huge monolithic wave of never subsiding, relentless barrage of… noise, of course. You can’t describe it as anything else because it isn’t anything else. All you get is what you hear – full frontal, naked as it gets, pure noise assault. It lasts forty or so minutes which I couldn’t take in one sitting. I’m not afraid to admit that I found it a painful experience. After twenty-minutes of having my flares flapped round my legs and my ears assaulted by a barrage noise not heard since the Soviet invasion of Germany at Seelow Heights, I had no choice but to seek refuge in that corridor of uncertainty that is the Red Rose toilet. They were without doubt the loudest Noise act I’ve ever witnessed. Just crank it up to whatever pitiful volume it is your system can generate and revel in the fact that unless you have a weighty P.A. for a stereo you will still be nowhere near the levels created that night. Expect harshness, bluntness and unremitting aural violence in plentitude. Idwal Fisher

Edition of 400.

Recorded at the Red Rose, London (Nov.2003)

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