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Released: May 7, 2012
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General Info

  • Genre: Powerpop / Punk / Rock

    Location Victoria, British Columbia, Ca

    Profile Views: 42199

    Last Login: 12/24/2012

    Member Since 6/14/2005

    Website myspace.com/budokanrocks

    Record Label Northern Electric

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    BUDOKAN are a rock 'n' roll band from Victoria, B.C., Canada. They play hook-filled songs with loud guitars that they want people to love and remember. They draw inspiration from all the greats but feel particularly indebted to the likes of Cheap Trick (yes, the band name is a tribute to the Trick classic ' At Budokan'), the Ramones, Redd Kross, the Stones, the Buzzcocks-y'know, the greats.

  • Members

    Andrew Molloy (BUM, Power Failures)plays guitar and sings , Craig Vishek (Pigment Vehicle, Show Business Giants)plays guitar and sings , Kent Bendall(Pingu, Cablevision)plays bass , Graham Watson(also BUM, Smugglers)plays drums

  • Influences

    Replacements ,Stones, Mott the Hoople, Dictators, Dolls,Redd Kross,Buzzcocks, Wildhearts, Joan Jett, Alice Cooper, Ramones, MC5, Stooges, Raspberries, Silver Sun, Queen, T. Rex, Bowie, Thin Lizzy, Fastbacks,Cheap Trick,Nomads,Sweet,Big Star,Real Kids,Only Ones,you get the idea....

  • Sounds Like

The Band

Andrew Molloy
plays guitar, sings and writes most of the songs (knows some chords on the piano as well but can’t make the changes all that quickly). He’s been obsessed with popular music since he bought Elton John’s ‘Caribou’ album for $1 at the age of 11. He’s played in a number of bands over the years, most notably BUM. The band with the really stupid name existed from ’90 to ’95, put out a slew of singles, one full-length epic, a couple mini-albs and a live album and toured Spain twice to throngs of screaming (or at least chanting) fans (seriously). After the breakup of BUM, he formed the Power Failures in Vancouver with Stephen Hamm and Terry Russell (from the amazing Slow and Tankhog). After that ran out of steam, he returned to Victoria and started up BUDOKAN with bassist Kent Bendall (Pingu), original drummer John London (Mission of Christ, Pigment Vehicle) and the man to whom we’ll now turn our attention.

Craig Vishek
plays guitar, sings and writes some of the songs. He saw both Boston and Kiss with make-up live so there you go. He sharpened his teeth playing in jazzcore West Coast punk band Pigment Vehicle, releasing full-length cds on the Wrong and Sudden Death labels. A tenure with Nomeansno offshoot The Show Business Giants rounded out the guitarist’s love of rock to roll, and everything in between.

Kent Bendall
plays bass and is a fan first and musician second (his description). His previous band ventures were a Misfits tribute band called The Astrozombies, and a goofball garage combo called Pingu. Being a longtime BUM fan, he was thrilled when Andrew asked him to play bass. He likes shiny things and candy.

Graham Watson
hails from the Hub City-Nanaimo, B.C.-and has been banging the hell out of the drums since he left the womb, we suspect. He moved down to Victoria in the early 90’s and joined Andrew and the rest of the BUM group in ’92 just in time to record their ‘Wanna Smash Sensation’ lp for Popllama Records. After departing the group in ’94 he joined Vancouver’s mighty Smugglers and toured the world (Canada, USA, Europe, Japan), recording a number of fine albums along the way. He also kept time in the Metronome Cowboys and the Timber Kings, among others.

The BUDOKAN group released their inaugural 7” single on Magic Teeth Records in 2005. It’s on pink vinyl,is a thing of beauty and is now sold out. (Although a visit to BANDCAMP will allow you to hear and buy a download version!)

Many years, beers, and broken hearts later ... the planets align, Northern Electric Records becomes our best friend, and a wonderful full length LP on coloured vinyl hits the scene. Now it really is a thing of beauty!..

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