Tony Buck (musician)

Tony Buck (born 1962) is an Australian drummer and percussionist.^[1] He graduated from the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music (now Sydney Conservatorium of Music), becoming involved in the Australian jazz scene.

Tony Buck
Buck performing at the LMC 16th Annual Festival of Experimental Music, Cochrane Theatre London 1 December 2007
Background information
Born	1962 (age 62–63) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres	Jazz, experimental
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Drums, percussion, guitar, vocals
Years active	1980–present

Tony Buck Aarhus Denmark 2013

Buck played in Great White Noise with Michael Sheridan and Sandy Evans^[2] during 1983, then Women and Children First with Sandy Evans.^[3] He is a founding member of The Necks with Chris Abrahams and Lloyd Swanton since 1987.^[4][5] He is leader of Peril, who he formed in Japan with Otomo Yoshihide and Kato Hideki, and astroPeril. He also formed the short lived L'Beato in the early 1990s, an industrial-oriented outfit reminiscent of Tackhead, which released one EP "The Piston Song".

In the early 1990s, Buck moved from Australia to Amsterdam and later moved to Berlin.

Discography

• The Shape of Things to Come (1989)
• Solo Live (1994)
• Self_contained_underwater_breathing_apparatus
• Projekt Transmit (2009)
• Knoxville (Christian Fennesz / David Daniell / Tony Buck, 2010)
• Flatbosc & Cautery (Frank Gratkowski, Achim Kaufmann, Wilbert De Joode, Tony Buck, NoBusiness 2020)

See also

• The Necks

Awards and nominations

APRA Awards

The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA).^[6]

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2005	"Drive By" (with Chris Abrahams and Lloyd Swanton)	Most Performed Jazz Work[7]	Won
2006	"Chemist" (with Abrahams and Swanton)	Most Performed Jazz Work[8]	Won
2019[9]	"Body" (with Abrahams and Swanton)	Song of the Year	Shortlisted