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The John E Vistic Experience

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About Me

'Always on the outside of whatever side there was - when they asked why it had to be that way, 'well', he answered 'just because''.What folk say about The VISTIC...'He's a bit good!' - Tom Robinson - Radio 6‘John E Vistic, the English answer to Nick Cave but with an even bigger Guthrie styled country edge. This is a man with a voice and stage presence to surely end up on one of the main stages here in the future.’ [Glastonbury Festival Review 2007].‘Mr Vistic has a big, deep mark Lanagan voice, and his band of banjo pluckers and slide guitar outlaws rattle out beefy rockerbilly somewhere between the Pogues and Johnny Cash’ [Venue Magazine ‘South West Sound’ Review 2007]‘Dark bruised blues, whiskey rimmed lyrics (I’m trying to resist the comparison to Dylan or Cash though both are hugely tempting) and the sentiment of Leonard Cohen on a bender’ [Glastonbury Festival Review 2007]‘dirty, rocking, drinking music, terrific!’ – Pilton, [Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Comp Review 2007].‘like Nick Cave fronting psychedelic era Stones - Yes that good!’ [Bath Fringe Festival Review 2006]‘Elvis meets Johnny Depp cool’ – [Trowbridge Festival Review 2006]‘filthy punkabillly country’ – [Ashton Court Festival Review 2006]The JEVE are now outing songs from their forthcoming second album ''Extinction Blues"."There are two types of people wear cowboy hats: cowboys and assholes"
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/4/2006
Band Website: vistic.co.uk
Band Members:

THE JOHN E VISTIC EXPERIENCE: JOHN E VISTIC - Lead Vox and Guitars LECTIC - Keys and BVs GUY - Bass DAN - Drums
Buy the Cold Hearted Baby Ep.!!


Influences: That bloke that bottled JEV outside Ajax's, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, The Pogues, Woody Guthry, Elvis Frickin Presley, Radio Birdman, Blitza Bargeld, The Stones, Wolf Mother, Jason Webley, Leonard Cohen, Alabama 3, The Scientists, Dr. Dre, KLF, Subgod, The KMK, The Waterboys, Dave Grainey and the Coral Snakes, Beasts of Bourbon, Isaak Hayes, Linton Kwasi Johnson, Burning Spear, Abu Shanti, Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Roland S Howard, The Slub, The Strokes, Kate Bush, Patti Smith, The Ramones, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Blue Aeroplanes, Chaos UK, Roger Waters, Pre-1986 Floyd, Tex Perkins, The Libertines, Gorecki, Ezra Pound, John Ford, Tom Nashe, Jaroslav Hasek, Ferdinand Celine, Will Shakes, Gaddis, Bellow, Beckett, Bukowski, Hemingway, Mailer, Yeats, General-Motors, Holden, Ford and Valiant Automobiles. The Big Blue Dream Mk 1 Ford Granada (see Vistic video).
Sounds Like: Rock N Roll to me. Cash in the Cave with The Shadows.Listen to it and make up your own mind.
Record Label: The Black Dog that Howls in the Night
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Trowbridge Review

Hey kids here's the review from BBC site from Trowbridge gig! Winsome? Over on Stage 3,.... The John E Vistic Experiencegathered a host of new (attractive, young and female) fans for thewinsome drop-...
Posted by The John E Vistic Experience on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:56:00 PST

Vistic Facebook link

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-John-E-Vistic-Experience/1 0181801061...
Posted by The John E Vistic Experience on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:06:00 PST

On The Liminal

I am all the places inbetweensunlight and darknessthe avenue of straight treesNapoleon built for marching armiesleads away and standing on the dustychambers of the roadsidei await the car with the cra...
Posted by The John E Vistic Experience on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:34:00 PST

On Love etc (1)

For what is love but a form of hurta giving out of what cannot be returnedsweet impatience, deep fear of losstrial without jurysilence filled with noisethunder with only hint of rainthe empty platform...
Posted by The John E Vistic Experience on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:11:00 PST

42 Days

In 42 days a man could change the worldwalk across deserts and burn pathwaysacross the hindering mountains of new landsThe Silk road lies forth shining goldenMagellan cuts across the straightsCook lea...
Posted by The John E Vistic Experience on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:41:00 PST

From Garnier to Selimus

In every land in every timea man stamps foot on dirtsaying: it was not thus beforeand yet that Saturnian ageor Golden timethat Ephesus before St.Paulthe streets of London cleanwith Empire knowledgesta...
Posted by The John E Vistic Experience on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:35:00 PST

new music new photos new reviews!

hey Folks! Thanks to our good pal Jamie at Bath Spa Uni studios and Blain at the Unsigned Song Comp and Vivien Cutiano for giving us her studio time we got two new tracks recorded on di...
Posted by The John E Vistic Experience on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:45:00 PST

On Dasien and Diane

Here is the way it looks from the insidespaces between things you cannot see -protons and electrons in divisible spaceZeno's paradox crossed again and againin that hole at the beginning of timemind as...
Posted by The John E Vistic Experience on Thu, 22 May 2008 07:25:00 PST

Colston Hall gig 27th May - tx!

Hey folks ! we have a special limited amount of reduced price tickets available for The JEVE Colston hall showcase gig - so if any of you fancy coming to see the band for this very special gig on the ...
Posted by The John E Vistic Experience on Mon, 19 May 2008 03:27:00 PST

Poseidon Joins The Dismal Queue

Here comes the storm rolling in from the seathe building of paradise interupted againas the parking lot spills its guts into streetsand factories breed contempt for their meatthe whole shaking beast ...
Posted by The John E Vistic Experience on Wed, 14 May 2008 02:18:00 PST