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MIVVI

About Me

Mivvi originally formed in the early nineties, and were well known as a bouncy, upbeat pop/rock foursome until, jaded by the music industry, they split in 1999.

In 2002, Big Rich decided to learn the drums, and started jamming with his cousin Nicky P.

This soon lead to a revival of a lot of the old mivvi songs as rich had always been a fan, and after checking with bass player tricky's wife that it was okay for him to come out and play, Mivvi: was reformed a new with two of the original members, plus a new drummer.

The three piece combo rapidly made several of the original mivvi favourites into new, revamped and revived versions, along with adding a healthy dose of their own newer, rawer sounding songs, and started gigging in and around the birmingham scene, doing such events as the birmingham artsfest in chamberlain square.

2004 saw mivvi hard at work recording in the studio, putting sufficient material together to make an album. With artwork supplied by Siravalenta, mivvi: vs the machine became a reality. In some ways it was a way to put some of the older mivvi hits to rest and in others it was a way to snub the record industry and prove that you CAN do it on your own without them.

The latter half of 2004 and most of 2005 was a relatively quiet time for Mivvi: as they awaited the NHS to get it's act together for a throat op for lead singer Nicky P. and during this time, Mivvi: recruited a 4th member, bass player Tricky's older brother, Phil H.

With the addition of the new member, the song writing has been going on under cover of darkness for the past 6 months or so, and we're now about ready to re-unleash ourselves on the world at large, with a whole bunch of new material.

So watch this space....

Big Rich

Drummer

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/02/2006
Band Website: www.mivvi.co.uk
Band Members:

Vocals / Guitar

Nicky P

Guitar

Phil H

Bass

Tricky Dicky

Drums / Backing Vocals

Big Rich
Influences:the wonder stuff, foo fighters, dodgy
Sounds Like: "If you need to pin the next to comparisons, I guess you could fillet out touches of The Wonder Stuff (Nick's vocals not dissimilar to Miles Hunt), Ash, the Jam, Supergrass and dodgy..." reproduced from a review of 'MIVVI: vs The Machine' in the Birmingham Post by kind permission
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

barfly

Thank u all 4 making last night a real treat.....C u soon Mivvi. x
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:49:00 GMT

Everything Changes

Well!! what a weekend. Mivvi's return to the studio this week never got off the ground, unfortunately beacause our producer had a 60mph car crash!!!! Dont worry jole is fine and is recouping nicely An...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 14:58:00 GMT

Barfly..

Great news the Barfly gig has now been confirmed Mivvi,AfterHours and Imogens Kiss shall be playing on Saturday June 28th If you want advanced ticket let us know by sending a message and we can ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 14:24:00 GMT

Back in the studio

MIVVI are going back into the studio to record a couple of tracks on the 25th of may, with our old pal jole manning the mixing desk.One of the songs we have chosen to lay down is an old live favorite ...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:00 GMT

Up & Coming Gigs, *JAPAN* & Other Stories........

Hi Everyone in Myspace Land!! Just to let you all know that we will be arranging some gigs in the next few months, please check back at the blog for further details and dates. We should be playing at...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:26:00 GMT

New Songs!

Well.  What can I say?  after yet another weekend spent locked in at univibe (thanks Joel) we've recorded what i personally consider to be two of our best sounding pop tunes yet.Have a liste...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:14:00 GMT

Mivvi are back

Well,  what can i say.what with a flappin amazing gig at the flapper & firkin last saturday, with a truly truly great crowd, and a recording session this weekend to get tresines and sussed do...
Posted by on Sun, 27 May 2007 12:22:00 GMT

Woohoo

    I'd just like to say a huge congratulations and well done to my cousin, our lead singer, Nicky P, and his lovely wife, for the birth of their first child.I'm so happy for you guys
Posted by on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:52:00 GMT

New Tracks

Well, we did it.  we finally got our asses back into the studio on monday and laid down 3 of the new tracks we've been working on over the past 2 years.So that's the first recording session of th...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:13:00 GMT

The Gig

    Well, we did it.  We're back.  Even though kerrang radio had their volvic kerrang-fest the same night, we still drew in a reasonable sized crowd, who had a great night.Wha...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:59:00 GMT