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Influences
i 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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....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.
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
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I love to mix and match genres cause great music has no boundaries!
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Got the new album off my brother for Christmas ......Picadilly Records! very inpressed nice one you Vivas. hope you all had a good one .... and have a great New Year!
Tracklisting 01. Neil Young - Tonight's The Night [Reprise] 02. Religious Knives - Downstairs [Ecstatic Peace] 03. The Gutter Twins - Seven Stories Underground [Subpop] 04. Pepe Deluxe - Little Miss Cypher (Reprise) [Emperor Norton] 05. Escape From New York - Slow Beat (Dance Mix) [Profile] 06. Jeff & Jane Hudson - Abadan [Lust/Unlust] 07. Giant Sand - Glum [Imago Recording Company] 08. Jeffrey Lewis - Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane [Rough Trade] 09. The Breeders - Put On A Side [4AD] 10. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Red Light [Polydor] 11. Quintron - It's Moving Me [Skin Graft] 12. Ruins - Reversible Sabbath [Temporary Residence Limited] 13. Geneva Jacuzzi - Alligator [CDR] 14. Crystal Stilts - Bright Night Nursery [Woodsist] 15. Big Ned - Bad Angel [Optimo Music] 16. La Maison Tellier - Killing In The Name [Euro Visions] 17. The Skull Defekts - Waving [Important] 18. Tuxedomoon - In A Manner Of Speaking [Crammed Discs] 19. Tom Verlaine - August [Fontana] 20. Wings - Let 'Em In [Parlophone]
I love to mix and match genres cause great music has no boundaries!
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