Vespers noun 1. evening. 2. an evening prayer, service, song, etc. 3. of, relating to, appearing in, or proper to the evening. 4. one hellava rock band
They were bored but eager to do something about it. So Ben Davey and Jim Emerson ripped the head off Echo and The Bunnymen, syphoned the mood from The Cure, pulled the motor skills from New Order and ate the heart of Queens of the Stone Age to create Vespers - the best sounding Frankenstein to emerge from a Sydney bedroom in years.
College roommates and co-conspirators in the next likely coup de tat of the Australian music scene, Davey and Emerson knew their collective fates were sealed from the moment that they spied each others CD collections and found they had the same albums. Emerson had a bass, Davey thought he could sing and bashed on an axe.
Bye, bye prospective respectable careers. Hello guitar store debt and industrial deafness.
Anyway, like any great story you need a character arc - and it would very un-rock for something not to go pear-shaped along the way. With Arts degrees tucked under their beds, our two fearless young bucks built a band and then watched it erode as the collective vision became skewed. Davey persisted, Emerson quit.
"That's just not cricket", cried Davey and after a night of booze and hijinks, the duo pledged to start a new band, playing the kind of music that they were bred on. Here begin-eth Vespers.
Along their perilous voyage towards music immortality, the Vespers founders managed to unearth fellow rock dogs Eddie Prevan (guitar), Dave Robertson (keys, samples, digital guru) and Frosty (drums). After a few months in a dank unventilated space the five true believers sculpted tracks that you can lose your shit to - or gather your composure - whatever fries your bacon.
Vespers have put their own adept spin on ageless rock styles that will remain relevant long after rich kids burn their stovepipe Lees. Vespers are not a hard sell. Dark, compelling, precocious and as catchy as a cold, Vespers is where it's all heading.
Influences
Soundgarden, Joy Division, Pixies, Queens of the Stone Age, Depeche Mode, Split Enz, The Cult, Regurgitator, The Clash, David Bowie, The Stranglers, Primal Scream, Suede, The Cure, Kashmir, Echo and The Bunnymen, Midnight Oil, Swervedriver...
Download the single My Friends now from Do it! For heaven's sake, do it for the children!!
On missions from God, two Vespers members have been forced to take temporary leave from the brotherhood to pursue rainbows overseas. Now before you swig back a jug of Ajax juice with a methylated spirits chaser, there is a show before they go.
It’s at The World Bar, Kings Cross, Friday February 2. Drop in, drop out, drop your tools and or responsibilities. This is going to be an arms wide open affair, albeit free of anything resembling a Creed song.
Vespers love you more than Bono does. We’ll always have Paris, or maybe Newtown, or Darlinghurst.
Shoot it up, Sigue Sigue style.
Click here to see a short interview on JTV and live footage of the V-train in full chug! You can also subscribe to the JTV Vodcast to download the video.
Happy days diggers.
Previous Shows
Fri 2nd Feb - Mum @ World Bar + LUCY AND THE PHEREMONES
Fri 1st Dec - BoobyTrap @ Melt Bar + Marching Room + Banshee + Ash Le Rouge
Fri 22nd Dec - Candy's Apartment Christmas Bash! + The Holidays + Diamond Daggers
Thur 28th Sep - The Sandwich Club @ Candy's Apartment + Souls On Board (melb) + Marching Room + Pork Pies (Jai from The Paper Scissors) + Banshee
Sat 1st July Rebel Rebel @ Home Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour + The Holy Soul + The Exploders + The Shake Up
Wed 28th Jun The Annandale Hotel Birthday Bash, Parramatta Rd, Annandale + The Exploders + Bridezilla + The Watt Riot
Sun 11th Jun SXIW (South By Inner West) @ The Annandale Hotel, Parramatta Rd, Annandale + Gersey + The City Lights + The Camels + Temper Trap + The Model School
Sat 20th May Surry Hills Festival, Prince Alfred Park, Surry Hills + Starky + Waiting for Guinness + Laura Imbruglia + Altona + more..
Fri 12th May Spectrum, 34 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, Pinky Tuscadero EP launch + The Glass Age + Pomomofo + FBIs Afterparty
Sun 30th Apr The Hopetoun, Bourke St Surry Hills + Pip Branson Corporation + Stevie Smythe + DJ Jack Shit + Teenagers In Tokyo (DJs)
Sat 18th March Starfuckers @ Club 77, Kings Cross + Kids From Russia + Pinky Tuscadero
The greenroom is shutting down because Gaz is moving to bigger and better things!
He is taking over the UC bar; which means you'll have to grab 6 bands together...lol.
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