Vienna Cycle

We are Vienna Cycle, formerly known as Memo...Dear enemies and friends, We've been dragging this forlorn but infinitely noisy musical horse-and-cart around for over two years now, along the culturally bereft goat track that is Devon's music scene.In late Summer 2006, two of us (Russ and Luke) began working together on songs with a view to starting a full band. Since there were only two of us we built up a performable set quite quickly - people started offering us gigs and, since we were keen to get out and play, we took them. We played about four shows under the prosaic moniker of: Russ Bray and Luke Bond, with bassist friend Steve Taylor before realising that we needed a 'proper' band name. After little or no forethought we settled for the un-evocative and wholly meaningless: Memo, a name under which we performed for a couple of years at pubs, clubs and festivals, won an Artsbase award and released a self produced demo Ep before finally settling on the name Vienna Cycle in April 09.All too aware of our unwillingness to compromise our naïve and inarticulate vision for the band, we found it difficult to find the 'right' people, almost giving up several times and opting for electronic backing (drum machines don't argue). We are looking for a suitable drummer however...At present we hide hermit-like in our converted basement room studio, working on a collection of recordings while we argue endlessly about what it is we're trying to achieve.Summer 09 will see us return to acoustic performances under our new name, Vienna Cycle.