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The VIPs

About Me

This site is a fan run site and is therefore totally unofficial. If anyone wants anything removed please contact me. The purpose of the site is to remind the world that there was once a band called The VIPs who came out of punk, surfed mod and all the time kept there own unique mixture of popular music going unswayed by fashion. The nearest thing they had to a hit was the sublime single "The Quarter Moon" but you may have heard them on Radio 1 or seen them touring with Madness or Secret Affair. You may even have seen them live yourself and if you're female you may once have been a Vipette. This site will evolve over the coming weeks and will carry news about what the band are up to now. Jed Dmochowski has a band called The Tranquilizers so follows links to their page to see what they are doing currently.

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Music:

Member Since: 01/07/2007
Band Members: Jed Dmochowski - Guitar and vocals, Guy Morley - Guitar and vocals, Andy Price - Bass and vocals, Paul Shurey - Drums
Influences: Marc Bolan, The Beatles, Jonathon Richman, The Ramones
Sounds Like: All and none of the above
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New Jed single out soon

Jed's new band, Tranquilizers, will be releasing their first single on 30th November. Sweet Condoleezza/Sleep Mercy Sleep will be released on CD single by Buzi Buzi Music - priced £3 at Tranquilizers...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:08:00 GMT

Tranquilizers

Jed Dmochowski's band, Tranquilizers, are going from strength to strength. They have up-coming gigs at The Fiddler's Elbow Cmden and The Watershed in Wimbledon and a new single has been recorded for ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:02:00 GMT

Summer with you

Well summer is pretty much over and what better way to wish it farewell than to go Kingsmeadow Live this Saturday for what promises to be a festival of VIPs and VIPness.First up we have The Chinese Fi...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:26:00 GMT

The VIPs Live?

Well, not quite but it seemed a possibility for a while. Jed's new band, The Tranquilizers, will be playing at KIngsmeadow Live on Saturday 8th September and Jed will be supporting himself playing VI...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:30:00 GMT

Songs

This is hopefully going to be a definitive list of the songs that The VIPs played live and recorded. There will be some I've forgotten to anyone out there who remembers any more, please let me know. N...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:33:00 GMT

Question Time

There are many big questions in music. Who was better, The Stones or The Beatles? Did punk originate in London or New York? Does Bez get dancing royalties? But the biggest question of them all, the ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:28:00 GMT

The VIPs - Where are they now?

Eventually I hope to make this site a history of The VIPs but in an arty way I'm starting at the end with the all-important "where are they now?"Kicking off with the Polish troubadour Jed Dmochowski t...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:23:00 GMT