They released a series of recordings and videos and performed around 40 times across the country between 1986 and 1993, provoking delight from stunned punters.
Angus McNaughton - sequencer, percussion, mixing, visuals
Ashley Turner - brass, percussion, noise, visuals
Mike Hodgson - guitar, percussion, visuals
Shaun Collins - samples, programming.
Gary Stevenson - samples, programming.
Once while creating an experimental film with mirrors in a car, the Tinnitus crew were confronted by security guards of a shopping centre who thought they were videoing the site to case it for a robbery. They demanded to view the footage, which was created with mirrors, and commented, “That’s pretty weird.”
In the beginning Tinnitus was an ingenious low-tech operation with McNaughton constructing a homemade eight channel mixing desk made from a biscuit tin as well as making fuzz boxes and ring modulators.
Gary Stevenson appeared on Firepower (Tape 10), Shaun Collins was on Affliction Addiction (Tape 11). Both appeared on Tin-EYE-tis Alive & Studio 1986-91 (Tape 12) & Futures Past (Flying Nun CD).