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Vencidos

About Me


Vencidos are closed for business currently... But, imagine Gogol Bordello or Ozomatli but with a British sensibility... Imagine Ian Dury if he were Puerto Rican... Imagine if Motown was in Blackpool... Imagine if AC/DC were from Bangladesh... Imagine if Robert Rodriguez made a movie about his mariachi chum causing havoc on the streets of Manchester...Now you’re getting an idea of what VENCIDOS is all about. We mix our cultures up because we are made of all those cultures. We represent the delicious human cocktail that so frightens the type of people who don’t even know that this is the way it has always been. We are all VENCIDOS. SALUD!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/9/2006
Band Website: you're looking at it
Band Members:

Captain Nickolas Culebra
lead vocals, guitar, percussion, words, artwork, stupid.

A. Quixote
drums, backing vocals, beard.

'Tiny' P. Quante
bass, backing vocals, electrospex.

El Ritmo de la Noche
guitar, backing vocals, R Kelly.

Sabroso
sexophone, flute, bv's, love eggs.

El Gordito
trumpet, flugelhorn, bv's, keys, the teach
Influences: Alex Harvey Band, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Gogol Bordello, Lila Downs, AMEN, Steely Dan, Deep Purple, Prince,Trio Los Panchos, Linus, Scissorfight, Funkadelic, The Tubes, Tito Puente, James Brown, Balkan Beatbox, Jorge Negrete, Stooges, Edgar Winter Group, Ozomatli, The Buzzcocks, Howlin' Wolf, Alberto Valente, Loads and loads of stuff....
Sounds Like: "If Queens Of The Stone Age were from Blackpool..." - Phil Jupitus"...and met Ian Dury in Peru" - Some bloke down the pub (Nag and Anchor)
"Have quite coincidentally been humming the chorus to 'Son Of The Sun' while doing the washing up this morning" - Tom Robinson (BBC Radio 6)
"...'ow do you say it? venkydos? sounds like 'bendy bus'!" Rob Galloway (Phoenix FM)
Record Label: none

My Blog

Review of 9th October 2008 - Mad Ferret

Thanks to Ed (DoctorC) for this review, for those that were there, hopefully you agree, for those that weren't, shame on you. This is what you missed,AidanVencidosx"Vencidos begin their set with a gen...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:49:00 GMT

Food for thought....

Sorry to sound like a preacher, but I would like everyone to read the passage below and ruminate on it a little. This is something that has been spilling round my head all weekend, since i read it,&nb...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:56:00 GMT

Mailing List

To all of those who may be interested, please add yourself to our mailing list for regular updates, priority receipt of our new tunes, and other treats. Just go to our profile, find the mailing list b...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:11:00 GMT

SUCKA 4 YO - a solution!!!

Right, seeing as Myspace's new player is being an utter ****, the new tune and all our stuff has been added to http://vencidos.vox.com/Sorry to all those who have contacted us saying they cant get a l...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:11:00 GMT

Online & On-tour! We need your vote!!

Hello Amigos!!We heard only last week that we were selected out of 100's of entries to feature in the final 10 bands for the "Online & On-tour" competition ran by memusic.co.uk and amazingtunes.co...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:53:00 GMT

A good week!

Well, things have been super duper for us these last few days. Last Monday we travelled to Sheffield for the first time to play Harley's. A wonderful venue folks, if you get the opportunity, go, becau...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:09:00 GMT

Sweet, not bitter.

Well, hoot hoot hoot. Last night was the giant rock and roll gumbo at Bitter Suite, Preston. Big thanks to the folks there for letting us put a night on and especially Matt G. for facilitating it. Onc...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:41:00 GMT

New Vencidos pics

Hola, one and all. We, Vencidos, have had a new set of photo's done for your delectation and delight. Take a bloody look! Xx We would like to thank the rather wonderful Kate Snape :  http:...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:56:00 GMT

Introducing BBC 6...

Hello all,Just a "quicky" - make sure you're all tuned in to BBC Radio 6 Music at 00:00 this Sunday morning, as Tom Robinson of BBC 6 Music has kindly selected one of our tracks to be featured in his ...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:02:00 GMT

Radio 1 Fringe and stuff

I didn't hold much hope out for the whole Fringe shindigs, in my own pessimistic kinda way, but from Wednesday evening i started to realise that people were really up for going to watch live music and...
Posted by on Mon, 21 May 2007 05:01:00 GMT