Click any of the photos below to open the video player. All videos directed by Chris Cassidy.
They Want You To Be Just Like Them
Hi on Wade
Lick Yourself Clean
Everything Here is Filled With Cream
Nobody's Watching the Radar
Wailing Wall
Painting at the Break of Day Short film featuring Vic Thrill.
Influences
WFMU, Toots & The Maytals (60's), DJ Soulslinger, Throbbing Gristle, The Shaggs, GBV, Mouse On Mars, Flaming Lips, Kid 606, B.J. Snowden, The Clash, Aphex Twin, The Dezurik Sisters, Sonic Youth, Sun Ra, Iggy & The Stooges, French & Italian Pop, The Scurvy Pirates, Primal Scream, Matmos, Al Jolson, My Bloody Valentine, I Am Spoonbender, The Rolling Stones, Cabaret Voltaire, Trance Pop Loops, Butthole Surfers, Braniac, Billy Syndrome, Turkish Garage Rock (Hava Narghile), Amoeba Technology, CAN, Ali Farka Toure, Little Howlin' Wolf (James Pobiega), Dr. Demento, Le Tigre, Skip James, Brian Eno, The Replacements, Robert Johnson, Sapera (Snake Charmers Of N. India), The Ramones, Baaba Maal, Lee Scratch Perry, Marc Ribot, Dinosaur Jr, Fela Kuti, Sigur Ros, Joy Division, Kinks, Peter Gabriel, Hank Williams, Alan Lomax, Lounge Lizards, Grand Mal, Malcolm Tent, Super Furry Animals, Tom Waits, Blonde Redhead, Fugazi, Arab On Radar, Jawbreaker, Otha Turner, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Otto Von Schirach, Pavement, English Beat, Peaches, The Kinks, Knockout Drops, Sex Pistols, Peter Tosh, Mz. Pakman, Violent Femmes, Beach Boys, Beatles, Unwound, Roswell Rudd,The Psychos, Desmond Dekker, Purple Organ, Bunny Brains, Black Lodge Singers, Drive Like Jehu, Dentista Dentista, Mission Of Burma, Neil Young, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Rev. Vince Anderson, Melt-Banana, Echo & The Bunnymen, Rollerskate Skinny, Arvo Liek, The Pogues, Peaches, Mad Larry, Jimmy Roselli, Bill Falvey, Television, Aphex Twin, Basement Jaxx, Squarepusher, The Pixies, David Bowie, Havana 13, West Suzuki 3, The What, Talking Heads, Dinosaur Jr, Esquivel, Gang Of Four, The Grateful Dead, BMT's, The Specials, Selector, party music, beat up old instruments and new technology.
We're also constantly being influenced by freaks and friends:
BOOKING:booking@victhrill.com
VICKY THE POOH came from exotic brew-wave minstrels THE BOGMEN. Newly single in September of '99 and still with much frenetic energy to blow before death, he was now in the market for a faster and freakier machine, something that would resonate with his quixotic, afrobotic soul. Vic had always remembered one night at Brownies in New York City, when Rizzo from GARDEN VARIETY played steroidal, dissonant punk riffs that activated some manic lab chimp emotions, just what he was looking to tap into for this new band. RIZZO entered the Brooklyn Space Program (BSP) in 2000 and earned the name THE SATURN MISSILE by his peers.
- Sonic orgiast and everevolving satellite member AURE DEXTRA contributed key musical elements to CIRCUS OF ENLIGHTENMENT and periodically shares the stage with VTSM providing segue sonics and photonic stimuli .
VIC THRILL + THE SATURN MISSILE = ELECTRONIC MUSIC: ANALOG SOUL
Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive. Jump into the experience while you are alive! Think...and think...while you are alive. What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time before death.
If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten- that is all fantasy, What is found now is found then, If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death. If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
So plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
Kabir says this: When the guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
---Kabir (15th century, written in Hindi) Translated by Robert Bly (1926-)
Just wanted to let you know that on the weekened of 10/3/07 we went on the air at Vocalo.org and got your song "Gourmet Cannibals" played on the air. The Host went nuts for it!!! the Mofo's
So wondrous a thing must remain in unending flux to maintain the faith of the flock. Doesn't the most compelling act of kindness in the universe consistently explain itself as a temporary distortion of nothingness? Only Vic Thrill knows.
