St Vitus Dance are:
Haydn Boyle - Keyboards
Noel Burke – Vocals, Guitar
Phil Freckleton – Bass Guitar, Guitar
Peter Hesketh – Drums, Percussion
Damien Magee – Guitar, Mandolin, Button Accordion
Kevin O’Neill – Lead Guitar
Influences
People We Like In No Particular Order: The Velvet Underground, Love, Jacques Brel, Scott Walker, Bill Hicks, Wire (oh, and The Wire Too), Drew & Josh Friedman (not related to Dean as far as we know), The Kinks, The Zombies, The Lovin' Spoonful, Teenage Fanclub, The Byrds and Gene Clark solo, The Undertones, Kocani Orkestar, 13th Floor Elevators, George Pelecanos, Rogue Wave, Television, Pernice Brothers, Ros Serey Sothea, Sly and the Family Stone, Calexico, Benjy Ferree, Okkervil River, Robert Mellin & Gian Piero Reverberi, The Go-Betweens, Jason Falkner, Lee Hazlewood, Oliver Postgate, Orange Juice, Apples In Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Toots and the Maytals, The Monochrome Set, Richard Thompson, Band of Horses, Zookeeper, The National, Taraf De Haidouks, Spoon, Ennio Morricone, The Stars of Heaven, Microdisney, Mikis Theodorakis, Jonathan Richman, Magnetic Fields, Sambassadeur, The Shins, John Barry, Lambchop, The Beatles, Nino Rota, Grandaddy,Al Green, The Left Banke, Candi Staton, Wilco, Eric Matthews, Johnny Cash, Nyah Fearties and probably a lot more but who has the time these days?
Belfast band St. Vitus Dance fell together sometime in the summer of 1981. Marked out from the beginning by their own brand of sixties-tinged, intelligent pop the band were a bright spot on an otherwise largely dour landscape. The band went through a few personnel changes and several years of activity on the increasingly healthy local scene which culminated in the album Love Me Love My Dogma which was released on the Liverpool based Probe Plus label in 1987. No angry political diatribes here, rather a wryly humorous series of reflections on the lesser documented side of life in the Belfast of that time. Tales of late night taxi ranks, down at heel bars, and a rocky outcrop high above the city bearing a strong resemblance to Bonaparte in profile. The album was critically well received and the band migrated across the pond where a year of infrequent gigs and poverty finally did for them.
In May 2005 a reconstituted St. Vitus Dance (including most of the Dogma era line-up as well as a long lost veteran of the band’s very first incarnation) accepted an invitation to perform at Belfast--s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival with the legendary Bid (Monochrome Set/Scarlet--s Well). The night was something of a triumph and coincided with the first ever CD release of Love Me Love My Dogma. Another sell-out gig at the Crescent Arts Centre followed before the end of that year and encouraged by public response band also began writing, rehearsing and recording the songs which have now been brought together on the album Glypotheque (Probe Plus).
The band recently celebrated both the 20th anniversary of Love Me Love My Dogma and the launch of Glypotheque with a gig at Belfast’s Black Box Theatre. The album was officially released on 7th April, 2008 - watch this page for details and news of any more upcoming gigs.
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hello st vitus sorry I missed the gig at the Black Box, I was in Dublin but heard it was great, Ali was there. We're all going to the next one. Been listening to Glypotheque lately, it's just so good. Good luck to you all. Phil Freckleton is a legend !
Great gig on Friday in the Black Box - I think the running order was right but they should have cut Lloyd down to one set and you should have played longer.
Anyway can't wait to the 23rd May Time To Be Proud Festival.
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