Music:
Member Since: 7/1/2005
Band Website: vetosilver.co.uk
Band Members: Ben Silver - Lead Vox
Neal Silver - Guitars
Rik Silver - Synths + Samplers
Influences:
Pop Artists who have issues, crises, and bad habits...
Hot Chip, Bloc Party, Daft Punk, Justice, The Knife, The Libertines, Klaxons, Mylo, Cut Copy, Larrikin Love, Suede, A-ha, Digitalism, Patrick Wolf, Les Rhthmes Digitales, Panic At The Disco, The Faint, Zoot Woman, Soft Cell, Scritti Politti, LCD/DFA, Goldfrapp, Madonna, Killers, Depeche Mode, Tom Vek, Adam and the Ants, Bowie, Ministry, Kate Bush, T-Rex, Black Strobe, Kid 606, Pet Shop Boys, Tapedeck, Duran Duran, Kanye West, Girls Aloud, The Killers, Soft Cell, Rex the Dog, David Guetta, Felix da Housecat, Pulp, Blur, Arcade Fire, New Order, The Rapture, Prince, Rakes, Le Tigre, Nile Rogers, Human League, Japan, Killing Joke, The Pop Group, Robert Palmer...
Sounds Like: "One of the greatest Pop trios on the face of Planet Earth"
Popjustice: "Veto Silver straddle the shiny high-wire of genius pop"
NME: "Most bands can only dream of being this perfect, Veto Silver do it effortlessly"
Musicweek: "Veto Silver guaranteed a no-holds-barred A&R scrum"
Record Of The Day: "Stay Young, Stay Beautiful is an absolutely ruddy brilliant slice of Synth-pop from a group who are head and shoulders above their peers. This is simply the best single in ages and could sit at number one in the charts for about three months"
CMU: "Fuck me you look like Popstars!"
Chris Moyles - BBC Radio 1: "Veto Silver look and act like Stars. Their songs are Anthemic and as cool as F**k - it’s only a matter of time before everyone will own a piece of them"
I.D: "Sharpsuited and not afraid of the word pop - everyones talking about Veto Silver"
NME: "Veto Silver look great and ’Stay young, Stay Beautiful’ is a slick single that really hits the spot"
R.O.T.D: "They’ve just found the formula to perfect Pop"
Channel 4: "Veto Silver know what’s really important - the Cheekbones, hair and hips. "
AXM: "The Lads are cool Newcomers"
NOW Magazine: "Stay Young, Stay Beautiful is a Languid Disco Smasher"
Musicweek: "Killer tunes, pleasing facial features and proper Class A pop star personalities; if Veto Silver don’t make it we might as well blow up the planet and start again" -
Manchester Evening Post: "’Stay young, Stay Beautiful’ is the Best single in ages, and remember: this is not opinion, it’s fact"
Time Out: "Our favourite new band and not simply because they look like the electro Busted" -
Attitude: "With the simple electro naivety and innocence of Scritti Politti corrupted by the darker edges of Soft Cell - Veto Silver are onto a pop winner!"
Subba Cultcha: "Stay Young, Stay Beautiful is blessed with a Pop Aesthetic catchier than Bird Flu and we love it"
Gay Times: "Veto Silver qualify for alt-disko with their deluxe synth swirls an libertarian lyrics"
Uncut: "Killer hooks, killer looks and killer attitude, the essentials every great band should have"
Channel 4: "The ones to watch. You have been warned"
Drowned In Sound: "Veto Silver’s tunes are Lush, Cinematic and Imbued with a pop sensibility"
MusicOHM.com: "Best Cheekboned Trio since A-ha"
NME: "Hypnotic Synth Combo"
Fake DIY: "Our favourite New Electro popstars"
Boyz: "The best electro-pop since Girls Aloud’s Biology"
Rock Track Of The Day: "Veto Silver dazzlin’ us with the sharpest Pop in ages - Synth Disco with a top note of Heart Attack"
AXM: "The lead singer of Synth-Pop band Veto Silver confides he want’s to be the next James Bond - this doesn’t seem strange at all..."
One Week To Live: "Listening to ’Stay Young, Stay Beautiful’ is like flicking through a classic issue of ’Smash Hits’ but still nothing prepares you for the glorious Pop moments that unfold"
Boyz: Record Label: Mobb Rule Group Of Companies
Type of Label: Indie
