Author & Punisher Post “Black Storm Petrel” Live Video
The video below was recorded on Nov. 2 at VooDoo Club in Warsaw, Poland, as San Diego/Philadelphia-based duo Author and Punisher celebrated the release of this Fall’s Nocturnal Birding (review here) on a European tour that took them from Amplifest in Portugal on a nearly-month-long loop that wound up at Damnation in the UK. Founding programmer/producer, vocalist and songwriter Tristan Shone and guitarist Doug Sabolick (who’s also been ripping it up this year with noisemakers Plaque Marks and whose hard-psych rock outfit Ecstatic Vision has plans in place for 2026 including Mojave Experience in CA in March), have more touring ahead of them, likely more than is listed for the February/March stint on the US East Coast which will mark their first for the new LP.
Looking ahead at spending however much of the next year on the road, a live video makes sense, but I don’t think this is so much a marketing calculation as an opportunity that came along. The film crew was local, I suppose is what I mean by that. Obviously the foundation of the piece is the live performance of the song, which was written in collaboration with France’s Fange and features them on the studio version. Here, Shone covers that part with duly harsh throat. He and Sabolick make an interesting contrast on stage. Shone is surrounded by midi keyboards and self-made machine interfaces — the striking onstage visual impression that Author and Punisher have always made — while Sabolick stands adjacent, entirely in the open, guitar in hand. Tension and release, the two of them. And both furiously heavy.
Yeah, it being December, I’m in year-end mode, so this won’t be the last time I talk about Author and Punisher in 2025, and I hope to see them on a stage somewhere, sometime, in 2026. Those East Coast dates and the video credits follow below, as hoisted from the YouTube page where the video appears. Nocturnal Birding streams at the bottom. Enjoy:
Author & Punisher, “Black Storm Petrel” live at VooDoo Club, Warsaw, PL
Video by @flouwejett. Author & Punisher performs “Black Storm Petrel” LIVE in Warsaw, PL at VooDoo Club.
Camera: @flouwejett & Wum Panik (@wum_panik_video)
Editing: @flouwejett
Author & Punisher’s new album Nocturnal Birding is OUT NOW 🦅 Listen here: https://orcd.co/authorandpunisher
Experience Nocturnal Birding LIVE! All tour dates and tickets here: https://bnds.us/d2z1t9
North American Feb/Mar 2026 Nocturnal Birding Dates:
Feb 20 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club ^
Feb 21 – Chicago, IL @ Reggies Rock Club ^
Feb 22 – Indianapolis, IN @ Black Circle ^
Feb 23 – Detroit, MI @ The Sanctuary ^
Feb 25 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison ^
Feb 26 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB ^
Feb 27 – Cambridge, MA @ Sonia ^
Feb 28 – Brooklyn, NY @ The Meadows ^
Mar 1 – Philadelphia, PA @ Ukie Club ^
Mar 2 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery ^
Mar 4 – Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall ^
Mar 5 – Raleigh, NC @ Chapel of Bones ^
Mar 6 – Atlanta, GA @ Boggs Social Supply ^
Mar 8 – Austin, TX @ The Far Out Lounge ^
Mar 9 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada ^
^ w/ King Yosef, Black Magnet
Author & Punisher, Nocturnal Birding (2025)
Author & Punisher on Instagram
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