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Viva Stereo
Indie / Electronica / Experimental

"Electro Noise Beat Confusion"

Glasgow, Scotland
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  7/19/2008
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   Viva Stereo: General Info
Member Since7/12/2004
Band Websitevivastereo.co.uk
Band MembersRob Viva

Doug Viva

Stuart Viva

Tim Viva

and sometimes Onthefly
Influencesi mean we listen to allsorts of stuff...some of it filters through into VS, some of it doesn’t....some of the stuff that does.....Primal Scream, Jesus and Mary Chain, Spiritualized, Death in Vegas, Joy Division, The Beta Band, Mogwai, The Happy Mondays,FENCE RECORDS, Johnny Cash, Massive Attack, New Order, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, The Stone Roses, Kraftwerk, Spacemen 3, DJ Shadow, Bonnie Prince Billy, UNKLE, Radiohead, Boards of Canada, Neil Young, Felix Da Housecat, Andy Weatherall, Aphex Twin, Jimi Hendrix, Can, The Fall, David Holmes, MC5, Can, Velvet Underground, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Lo-Fidelity Allstars, Ladytron, Beck, Four Tet, Regular Fries, Six By Seven, LCD Soundsystem, Suicide, Giorgio Moroder, The Sonics, Arab Strap, Factory Records, Chemikal Underground, Warp Records, DFA Records, 70’s funk(Curtis, Sly, The Temptations), Northern Soul, Nuggets, early Verve....fucking on and on and on...

Bill Hicks, Performance, Clockwork Orange, Goodfellas. Get Carter, Billy Liar, Chris Morris, Sam Peckinpah, David Lynch, Shane Meadows, Stanley Kubrick, the boat scene in Jaws, and the Big Lebowski

"We’d like to do a song, ladies and gentlemen, about how love kind of disappears after about 3 days... and you sort of like think ’I kind of like you but maybe it’s not really working’. You decide that you’ll lock yourself away in a room and fill yourself with as many drugs as you can. And you do this, ladies and gentlemen, and you have such a good time that you forget that you don’t actually love them anymore and it doesn’t matter. You’re walking along one day, and because you’re sort of like this indie rocker, you sort of like hear this Weezer song that says ’Oooh I look like Buddy Holly and she’s Mary Tyler Moore’ and you think you’re Buddy Holly and she’s Mary Tyler Moore and you kind of like start to think ’That’s pretty cool.’ Then you kind of look in the window of the shop that you’re going into to buy some bread and you realize that you are actually ... Burt Reynolds ... and she’s Sally Fields ... and you’ve been cast in Smokey and the Bandit 98. You have a toupee... and she’s not The Flying Nun anymore. So that’s kind of bummed you out and you think ’We really didn’t find love, but we had a lot of fun on the drugs ... but if it’s going to make me look like Burt Reynolds and you look like Sally Fields maybe we have to look at doing something else or maybe take another drug that makes us feel, like, kind of better than that.’ But you know in this time, ladies and gentlemen, you know in this time that ... Everything Is Fucked." -Warren Ellis

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also our great friends who have supported us and influenced over the years, please check out our top friends and have a listen...

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Record LabelMuch Better Records
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   About Viva Stereo

Viva Stereo were born in Glasgow...

....with the view to making music that would encompass a full weekends ebbs and flows. Saturday nights are important to Viva Stereo but with it comes the Sunday soul searching(not to mention the grim reality of Monday morning and the working week) and the combination of these are what give the 'stereo' sound its dark edges.

They are part of the Fence Collective

Our music can be bought from Itunes.

Or from our online shop.

2008: Viva Stereo's third album, 'Roar, Lion, Roar' will be released Autumn 2008'

2007: Viva Stereo's latest release is a 10" EP released through De-Fence Records. You can buy it online here

Viva Stereo's debut album, 'Optimism is Not a Curse', was released in October 2004(before this they released 4 x EP's). It featured contributions from Malcolm Middleton(Arab Strap), King Creosote and Pictish Trail(Fence Records),Paul Tierney(Odeon Beat Club), Stacey Seivnwright(Reindeer Section),

Viva Stereo's second album 'Patterns of Behaviour' was released in October 2005. Featuring contributions from Tara Mascara from Language of Flowers, and Pictish Trail/Candythief from Fence Records.

"with two adrenaline fuelled guitars, this is like Hallelujah pre-Factory played on PCP. The grind of the electronic drums and sequencing is pumped up to hell, by the pulsing bass and Primal vocals and searing guitars. When the whole thing reaches its climax, its a testament that Viva Stereo have got you there, one exciting step after another." Live Review Manchester Music.co.uk

"their vertiginous jams are bolstered with cosmic loops and samples, space-walking in similar orbits as Death In Vegas and Primal Scream with all the adrenalised assurance of a band who've suddenly discovered their forte" The Metro

"Sounding like the bastard love child of Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and Death In Vegas' Richard Fearless, Viva Stereo are cooking up quite a sound" Leeds Music Scene

"a strutting mass of sneering proto punk / psyche robotics replete with grind like menacing electronics and heavy duty fearsome hook laden riffs, think Darklands era Jesus and Mary Chain" Losing Today Fanzine

"Exterminator era Primal Scream basslines, twinned with Cooper Temple Clause styled mad electronic pulses, Viva Stereos sound is really refreshing, drawing you in with riotous and fiery vocals, then chewing you up with monstrous guitar parts" High Voltage Fanzine

"This is the sound of a band making music they believe in and it's good enough to take a chance on. Viva Viva Stereo indeed". Lost Music Fanzine

"It's rare to find such versatility and inventiveness in one album. Even rarer to come across a band brave enough to break out of media-imposed boundaries and take their music wherever it needs to go. Highly, highly recommended". -Contact Music

"Viva Stereo are probably Glasgow’s best-kept secret" -Tangents Fanzine

"Innovation is dead, thank God for bands that recycle good old ideas and make them transcendent thank God for Viva Stereo" Logo Magazine

For a Viva Stereo pictorial history check out our Flickr site


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Viva Stereo's Friends Comments
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GLITCH IS DEAD VIVA LA SUGAR SKULL





Jul 11 2008 10:12 AM

viva stereo

viva la sugar skull

viva us both

cheers for the add
Katie Buggerlugs





Jul 6 2008 5:16 AM

Hello me wee pets. Hope you are all well. Just a little message to ask you to check out a local Band called 'Viva City' I think you might like them.
Hopefully see you all very soon xxx
Jefr Tale





Jul 4 2008 5:48 PM

thanks for the add

always mixin
jefr
Lorna Brown





Jun 24 2008 8:55 AM

did my sax playing ever make it onto any of your CDs?
viva marie





Jun 23 2008 12:21 PM

gracias ha sido mi primer comentario! un vivabeso
Katie Buggerlugs





Jun 22 2008 8:37 AM

......Green Man Music Festival 15th, Glanusk Park 16th and 17th August 2008.. ......Vote For fionasallymiller To Play At Green Man Festival 2008!!!........Green Man Music Festival 15th, Glanusk Park 16th and 17th August 2008.. ....
Satellite Dub





May 26 2008 4:51 AM



Next gig : 6th June @ Halt 2, Woodlands Road, Glasgow



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Stereo Dabbler





May 27 2008 1:15 PM

Thanks for friendship Viva Stereo.
And I say Viva Stereo Dabbler! ;)
merchgirl1





May 15 2008 3:23 PM

LOVE THIS BAND! Enough said!
www.PsychedelicCentral.Com





May 8 2008 12:57 AM

Hi and thank you for the add, it is nice to welcome you!

Jan :)
Rebecca





May 2 2008 2:48 AM

Hi guys,
Seen you guys twice at the fence homegame. Really love your music, so thanks for accepting me as a friend. It was good meeting dougie, enjoyed chatting with him.
All the best, love and peace Becky x
merchgirl1





May 2 2008 7:49 PM

Longtime! Where are my new tunes? LOL
FENCE RECORDS





May 3 2008 3:21 AM

FENCE CLUB #4 POSTER

FENCE CLUB #4 THE BULLEIT SESSIONS
with KING CREOSOTE + SLOW CLUB + ROZI PLAIN + HARRY GOOCH + DJ DOMINIC

Taking place in EDINBURGH, at THE CAVES (Niddry St South, EH1 1NS)

THIS THURSDAY!! 8th May!!

Tickets available for £10 from www. fencerecords. com, or £12 on the door.

Doors 8pm.

AT THE END OF THE NIGHT ALL TICKETHOLDERS WILL RECIEVE A FREE 7" VINYL SINGLE, WITH EXCLUSIVE NEW TRACKS FROM KING CREOSOTE !!!
Second Method





May 1 2008 11:57 AM

Hey!
how are you guys?
Smx
Sandradio





Apr 29 2008 5:15 AM


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Apr 27 2008 6:06 PM

Viva Stereo....Have a laugh and a great weekend!

See the whole gallery

Ally





Apr 14 2008 2:17 AM

cheers for the cd lads, quality tunes, i'll keep an eye open for giggage
Adore Alexa ♥





Apr 12 2008 3:36 AM

Thanks for the add :)

Love ACF xx
ShyMoonMedia





Apr 3 2008 7:06 AM

Hey Viva Stereo, Thanks for the add.
Look forward to hearing more of your music!
ShyMoonMedia





Apr 3 2008 7:06 AM

Hey Viva Stereo, Thanks for the add.
Look forward to hearing more of your music!
the lava lounge





Apr 1 2008 6:20 AM

Hope you can join us for an evening of primitive fun!

Next Saturday at the Lava Lounge:
Never before seen in Leicester, the finest 4 man masked wrestling rock and roll tag team north, south, east and west of the squared circle:

THE COYOTEMEN

described by Lava Lounge organiser Liz as: 'the best band I have ever seen in my life!'
With support from teenage garage punk upstarts

THEE VICARS

(first ever Leicester show) picking up the budget rock and roll crown where the Mummies left off.


Also featuring the long awaited return of Leicesters legendary punk and roll losers:

THE POKERS

their first show for 3 years, we welcome back the most raucous party starters ever to come out of the cheese city.


And thats not all: for your £1.99
you also get to see (also for the first time ever in Leicester) the raw garage punk explosion that is

THE DESPONDENTS

Wowza!

First band will be on at 8, all bands have to finish by 11.

don't be late or you will miss out on the wildest rock and roll blowout Leicester has ever seen!

Saturday 19th April
Doors open at 7.00pm, £1.99 entry
Upstairs at the Firebug Bar,
Millstone Lane,
Leicester.



Followed by a swingin' dance party 'till 3, playing all the usual hip shaking, shimmy inducing Lava Lounge fare: Greasy grind, fuzzed up garage, dirty punk, sleazy lounge, sloppy rhythm and blues, wild rock and roll, crazed instrumentals and more!

NEW BREED





Apr 1 2008 9:47 AM

////NEW BREED////

///THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 5th///

/////GSA/////

/////8PM/////

/////WAKE THE PRESIDENT/////

////ZOEY VAN GOEY////

////SEE YOU THERE////

////xxx/////

/////P.S…DO IT!!!!!!!!/////

////www. myspace. com/newbreedclub ////
Good Golly, Miss Murray





Mar 10 2008 6:13 AM

Hello. Sure am going to the Homegame. Can't wait i missed it last year. See you lot there? x
Xenophanes Productions





Mar 11 2008 5:27 AM

Good music.
Ally





Mar 5 2008 12:54 AM

Nae bother, you boys sound pretty good. Any gigs comin up in Glasgow soon?
Sandradio





Feb 18 2008 11:40 AM


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HATHI





Feb 13 2008 4:04 AM

Hi guys. Cheers for the add, and yes I hate the computer generated add things aswell.

Glad to see the Viva train keeps on riding!

Hope you are all keeping well.

Diane (of Soze and formerly Red Eye..remember..I know you do!)
Clarabelle





Feb 12 2008 6:34 PM

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Anstruther





Jan 29 2008 12:43 PM

Viva Stereo, Viva Anster, Viva Music!
The Falkirk Wall





Jan 26 2008 6:29 AM

Hello,

As you may know by now, The Falkirk Wall's Official website launches on March 1st.

As part of the site, there is a music forum for artists and bands to leave messages related to the music scene in Falkirk. I've decided to launch the music forum approx. 4 weeks before the site launch to get things moving along.

You have to sign up for the forum.

Check it out at: http://thefalkirkwall.forumotion.com/

Enjoy

Pat
Hrafnhildur