Vile Bodies - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Alun (born in England, raised in Wales) and Leon (born in Wales, raised in England) met when they were 16. They're a little bit older than that now. After spells living on the isolated islands of Iceland (Alun) and New Zealand (Leon) they decided to come back to Albion and play some folk music. Vile Bodies don't usually do endorsements. They do, however, approve of Sound City amplifiers, communal living and organic cider. Sometimes, people call them hippies. What's a hippie? According to the Collins Gem English Dictionary a hipp'ie, -y n. is a (young) person whose behaviour, dress etc. implies rejection of conventional values. As neither of Vile Bodies are 16 any more they'll take that as a compliment, although it should be noted that these particular 'hippies' love Land Rovers (Alun), Football (Leon) and Punk Rock (Alun and Leon). Vile Bodies are LOUD and LONG!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/20/2006
Band Members: Leon Barton: DrumsAlun Hart: Guitar, Pedal Bass & Vocal
Influences: AC/DC, Jane Barton, Margaret Hart, American Analog Set, Martin Amis, Black Sabbath, Richard Burton, Nirvana, Sandy Fairport Convention, John Cale Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Stan Rogers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Shellac, Hank Williams, Julie Christie, Captain Beefheart, Bert Jansch, Jim Crow and the Honkies, John Lee Hooker, Woody Guthrie, Rob Smith, Davy Graham, W. G. Grace, Howlin' Wolf, Verity Sharp, Phillip Larkin, Wagner, The Nobs, Incredible String Band, Fugazi, Lungfish, Lee Perry, Loudon Wainwright III, Chris Morris, Leo Kottke, Raffi, Johnny Cash, Sigur Ros, Ivor Cutler, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Taylor, Brother Oswald, Grateful Dead, Dead Kennedys, Yo La Tengo, X, Neil Young, Frank Zappa !
Sounds Like: Beautiful-Folk-Blues-Noise-Slurry
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Down/Out/Ill

We're all ill and as a result missed out on a chance to play to some people who might actually want to hear us play (they don't come around very often). As a result I feel particularly gloomy, a feeli...
Posted by Vile Bodies on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:59:00 PST

a blog

just thought i'd write another blog as its been a while since the last one...well then, unbelievably, we have two gigs in one week coming up, which is totally unprecedented in the world of v...
Posted by Vile Bodies on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:16:00 PST

VB on the Radio

a bit late on the uptake here but i'd just like to thank katherine for playing limbo on her excellent radio show in november - our very first airplay anywhere. 'the revolution will not be televi...
Posted by Vile Bodies on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:12:00 PST

Bad Bootleg Beatles

There has to be a better way than this doesn't there? I think of a place, some rock of Platonic ideal of a stage sound where I feel in control of what's going on, I like what I hear and I don't f...
Posted by Vile Bodies on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:12:00 PST

10 Hands

I have no idea how long this will last, I certainly have no expectations of maintaining a daily log. But it just so happens that we had a practice this evening and have some of the gems the dictaphone...
Posted by Vile Bodies on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:25:00 PST

Joy in the Winter

I had a long, drunken conversation with Aidan Hamade last Friday. Somewhere in the oodles of drivel we both poured forth that night, he commented on how limp our home recordings sounded, that wha...
Posted by Vile Bodies on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:43:00 PST

Fumbles in the Studio

The three new recordings we've posted are the result of setting up a makeshift studio at our house Datchworth. We used a tiny room at the back of the house with only just enough room for us both to si...
Posted by Vile Bodies on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:29:00 PST

2/6

Our London debut! We must admit to being slightly overwhelmed by the warm reception we received at the Bull and Gate on Friday, a lovely audience.. We've posted two of the songs recorded on the night....
Posted by Vile Bodies on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:44:00 PST

Just the Two of Us

I've just posted some very rough recordings of our performance at the Workhouse Festival in Llanfyllin last weekend. They were made on an old reel-to-reel that kept getting clogged up with tape gunk a...
Posted by Vile Bodies on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:55:00 PST

'Excuse me, your geetar is killing my momma!'

We're a loud band, and this probably wasn't the ideal environment in which to be playing, the excellant jazz band that followed us was far more in keeping with the atmosphere of a 60th birthday p...
Posted by Vile Bodies on Mon, 08 May 2006 05:39:00 PST