Music:
Member Since: 10/10/2007
Band Members:
Joshi P : Bass, Vocals, Drum Machine
1996 - Gav McKenzie : Guitar
1997 - Shane Atkin: Guitar, Gav: Bass (Live), Rowan Syms : Bass (Live)
2000 - Shane Atkin: Guitar
2001 - Shane Atkin: Guitar, Sascha Dilger : Vocals
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Influences: Jenny Craig & the Double Cheese Burgers, Mind Your Nuts, Red Spicey Hot Sauce Bottles, Marty & the Mung Beans, Docking at Uranus, Tommy & the Blast Beat Bunnies, The Ex-Wive's Sex Life, Mummy is the Milkman, Buttfinder, Bigger than Mr. T, The Crusty Wenches, Blokes in Opera Cloths, Bench to sit on, Boot Virus, Missy's Friggin', Johnny Farmer, Dave & the Dandelions, Spacesliders, The Canyon People, I Hate Dog, Parched BMW Authentic Spare Parts, Under the Monkey, The Oil Spots, The Real Life Savers, I wish i was U, Money Paper, S is for Salami, Amputee is For Me, Bones of Ala(n), My Mummy Said, Something for Crack-Whore, Pointy 17, Childhood Dreaming, The Nook & Crannies, Burden on my Folks, Rusty Nail, Bloke like Bob Harvey, Arrested Elephant, Sun of a Shoe Maker, Peachy & Wet, U & Me2, Cluster Bomb 23, Switcheroo 19, Breakdown 2493.7, Download 42.9, The Betta Music Boneheads, The Mbytes, U Like Me & So Do I, The Painted Nails, The Too Many More's, Wittness to your Head, The Cut Lunch's, People on da Poopy, Andy & the Mitchell's, The Josh-sloth Trio, Napalm Death, Cryptic Slaughter, Discharge, Depression (Melb), SIC (Melb), Boredoms, Doom, Carcass, Brutal Truth, Mick Harris, Terry Bozzio, Richard Hoak, Scott Peterson.
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Sounds Like:
DISCOGRAPHY:
- 1996 - 12 Minutes 50 Seconds
11 songs of old school grind with an inherent noise flavour. If you want to hear our humble beginnings this is it people! Lyrics are fairly immature and with our tongue firmly in our cheeks we prepare to grind it out with a ROCK/NOISE edge. At this point we were just a project band of 2 members: Gav McKenzie : guitar and myself on bass, drums & vocals. Written and recorded in a very short perioid of time it remains punchy & to the point. Frustrated that all our other bands were going nowhere we decided to start this project (with a drum machine) that eventually went... nowhere!
DOWNLOAD 12 Minutes 50 Seconds of:
1. Eocoibo
2. Diii
3. The Ded
4. Throwing Cooper
5. Too Slow
6. Tool
7. Angry Henry
8. Footsoldiers
9. All in the Packing
10. Punk as Fuck
11. Playing me
- 1997 - 13 Minutes 35 Seconds
A polished & refined improvement on the '96 demo, this is what the VICE is all about!
Fast & furious grind with an eccentric rock/noise influence. 7 songs with one of them being "The.." an utter guitar noise churning experience aimed at depleting your boewls of goo. Guest vocal appearance from Nathan Atkin & Azlan McLennan (underground Melb' artist) on "Bring them Back" & a good recording thanks to Ed Telfer. Gav is playing bass briefly for us live until Rowan Syms steps in on Bass Hammer and Shaggaz (Shane Atkin) joins the band on the axe. Our live shows at this point are very rock/noise prone & interestingly obnoxious in a strangely boring way... also mildly amusing as we are wearing suits and grinding hard, many sweaty moments were had. We also didn't like people in general (which probably includes you) and let them know how we felt every chance we had.
DOWNLOAD 13 Minutes 35 Seconds of:
1. Bring them back - Shooter
2. Damage Control
3. Do You Copy
4. Prior Planing Prevents Piss Poor Performance
5. Playing me
6. The...
- 2000 - 5 minutes 17 Seconds: SPLIT 7" with CSSO (Japan)
A split 7" with Japan's CSSO (Clotted Symmetrical Sexual Organ) , it resembles a more raw and aggressive sound for the VICE with slightly more melody in the musical content (if that is possible) and a noisey touch is always lurcking underneath. Recorded by myself on a tight budget we squashed out 5 songs with the first song "Fire" smearing the intro from the Jimi Hendirx classic "Fire" & Sascha Dilger doing some back oi's! Back to a 2 piece, we are not playing live at this point as members dwindle. Giorgio of the Spew Records asks us to appear with CSSO for his first label release, thanks mate but you ignoring me after the fact tastes like contempt everyday of the week. Have a nice day!
DOWNLOAD 5 Minutes 17 Seconds of:
1. Fire
2. Ke
3. Scars
4. Countdown to 9
5. Thankyou Spew
- 2004 - 13 minutes & some Seconds: UN-RELEASED
Yet to be released as we were dissolving in our own grinding stupor at the time! RSI and other issues slow this recording & its release down real fast. Apart from not being recorded to our liking, this (un)release yields our strongest songs yet (is that good or not?). About 7 songs in total, this is GRING/ROCK/NOISE to the max... Winding solo's on guitar & bass, yell-core chorus's and downright cynicism are all over this one. Sascha Dilger (Dement Ensemble) joins us on vocals to certainly give TBV a dynamic edge. Quite a few gigs were played with the "Stripper" gig, Michael Bolton cover and snail eating gigs the highlights. Soon after Shane (Shaggaz) decides to leave the band shortly after us gaining more momentum as he hates the world and everyone in it, of which i don’t blame him as he is right. The band sleeps.
DOWNLOAD 13 Minutes & Some Seconds of:
1. Life
2. 24
3. Eocoibo
4. Track 5
5. All in the Packing
6. Devices
7. Playing me
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Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None