VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCE

Music:

Member Since: 29/03/2006
Band Members:

Mike Smyth
Lead Vocals/Guitar

In the fall of 2005, two veterans of the Florida P unk Scene, guitarist Michael Smyth and drummer Glenn  Stewart were  working together at a debt settlement company owned  by Stewart. With passions leaning very heavily toward  their  music, the two found themselves returning to the off ice late at night to work on songs that would even tually become  Do It Yourself, their debut album.   

“We had a full drum kit, a half-stack, a bass ri g and half-a-dozen guitars lying around Glenn’s off ice”, says Smyth. “We  just kept the door closed and no one seemed to not ice.”  Eventually the boys converted some unused w arehouse  space next to their office into a rehearsal room. T he space grew and grew until they had actually buil t a state-of-the- art recording studio.    

Buoyed by that accomplishment and with of a ton of  original songs in their back pocket, they decided i t was time to  form a band to flesh out all the creative ideas th ey had brewing.  So they brought in bassist Lindsey Pittard, trombonist  Aaron Zylman and saxophonist Jay Atheney to complete  the line-up. Blending pop hooks with their distincti ve fusion  of punk and ska, Victims of Circumstance quickly mad e a name for themselves among the sea of Central F lorida  bands, both for their energetic performances and thei r commitment to the local scene.    

Victims of Circumstance tapped the talents of Tim †œJohnny Vegas” Burton of the Mighty Mighty Bosstone s to produce  their debut album Do It Yourself.” When the album  was released in late 2007, the band locked down ai rplay on over  150 independent and college radio stations and a hea lthy amount of media attention.     

Hot on the heels of the in-store date, the boys su pported the release with gigs with the Pietasters, B ig D and the Kids 

Table, and, most importantly, with the Mighty Mighty  Bosstones at the revival of their legendary Hometown   Throwdown in Boston.  Road warriors in spirit, they  continued to play in the Southeast throughout 2008  opening for  bands such as Time Again, Whole Wheat Bread and The  Voodoo Glow Skulls.     

Under the watchful eye of Big D and The Kids Table  Bass player Steve Foote in the producer’s seat,  the band entered  the studio again in early 2009 to record the follow -up.  The resulting album, Roll the Dice, will be  released in August  of 2009.  Jam-packed with tight punk, ska and pop  tracks with melodic hooks aplenty, this album pushes  the band  even further, exploring different rock styles and rhy thms. From the getgo of opening track "The Final Fl ight of D.B.  Cooper" that eases in with instantaneously-infectious  punk rhythms to the celebratory skank of "This Riot  Used To Be  A Party" to the cheekily-named (but not too far off ) "Number One Hit Single", their second album packs  energetic  melodic ska/punk/pop into fifteen tracks.    

Roll the Dice was produced by Steve Foote (Big D a nd the Kids Table) and will be released on August  25, 2009 on  Financial Records.  9/02/09 || Anyone like Mexican Food!?!?! You can hear one of our tracks rocking on the popular Tex-mex resteraunt, Tijuana Flat's website... Go check it out and tell them how much you like it! Click Here to go to the site. 8/20/09 || New Myspace is up, let us know what you think and if anything is broken!!!!

CD RELEASE SHOW!!!
This Saturday - August 22nd
Gasoline Alley - Clearwater Florida
All Ages - $10
Get a FREE copy of our CD when you pre-order your ticket through the link below! Just buy your ticket and you can pick up your FREE copy of our new album, Roll The Dice, when you get to the show!!!
CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER YOUR TICKET 8/16/09 || The album is done!!! A big thanks to Steve Foote of Big D and The Kids Table for helping us make this record. It will be available on August 25th on iTunes, Amazon Mp3, Rhapsody, and every other digital outlet you can think of. News of the CD release show is coming soon so stay tuned!!! 8/01/09 || Big news coming soon folks! We will be heading to New York for some pretty cool stuff, so stay tuned for full details!!! Financial Records will be putting out a 2nd compilation this year, so look out for a new VOC tune along with a new tune from our label mates Crisis in Hollywood.
Victims of Circumstance
Debut Album - Do It Yourself
Released 2008
Produced by Tim Burton

Victims of Circumstance
Sophomore Album - Roll The Dice
Released 2009
Produced by Steve Foote