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About Me

Viva la Venus is a five-piece touring and recording act from North Carolina. The live show combines powerful vocal harmonies with the gritty chug of guitars along with a sexy stage presence, taking the audience on a musical rollercoaster ride.

Along with being featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Raleigh's Live and Local TV, the track "Mystery" was featured in two episodes of the cable television series, Strong Medicine, on the Lifetime Network.

The debut CD release, The Never Ending Mending Story (Shiny Pants Records), has received wide critical acclaim. The second release, Forget the Fairy Tale was released in 2005 and was selected as one of the Top 25 CD's of 2006 by indie-music.com . Songs from the album have also been heavily featured in The Adrenalin Group's zombie film, The Forever Dead . Forget the Fairy Tale is available online at CDBaby.com and for download from iTunes, Napster and other major electronic music distributors.

Forget the Fairy Tale
selected as one of the top 25 Indie CD's of 2006!

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Member Since: 2/4/2005
Band Website: vivalavenus.com
Band Members: Wendy Brancaccio - vocals, guitar
Susan Darney - vocals, guitar
Rebecca Kane - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Jeremy Bellion - bass
Trey McLamb - drums, percussion

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LATEST CD RELEASE!

The Viva la Venus CD release, Forget the Fairy Tale, is now available for purchase online at CDBaby.com . Produced by Viva la Venus, mixed by John Plymale at Overdub Lane and mastered by Brent Lambert at the Kitchen.

Get your copy TODAY!

The music of Viva la Venus is featured in the zombie flick, The Forever Dead. Visit their website to order it on DVD!

VIDEOS

Viva la Venus at Volume 11 Tavern, July 2007
Cover of "Take It Off" by The Donnas. Video by Karen Mann

Viva la Venus, at Carrboro Music Festival 2006 by betsysmile

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Live Video of "Hesitate" by Strychnine Soul :

Get this video and more at MySpace.com

Barchords Showcase Video: featuring Rusty Trick, Viva la Venus & Blatant Disarray

Check out Viva la Venus at about 7:30 in the video.

Viva la Venus at MVP's, Last song ever played with Mary Anne

Veruca Salt, Hole, Heart, Evanescence, Garbage, Avril Lavigne, Sleater-Kinney, Foo Fighters, Breeders, Go-Go's, KISS, Velvet Revolver, Dokken, Blondie, Pat Benetar, Berlin, Portishead, Elastica, Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
Record Label: Shiny Pants Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

PRESS RELEASE

VIVA la VENUS! RETURNS TO THE STAGE WITH NEW LINE-UP The Forever Dead DVD in stores now, new CD on the way Raleigh, N.C., May 6, 2008 Later this month Viva la Venus!, a female-fronted guitar rock g...
Posted by Viva la Venus! on Thu, 15 May 2008 06:34:00 PST

TOUR DIARY - 3/29/08

Shakers Nite Life 2 - Moriah, NC Here we go again. After a six month absence from the stage we got an offer to play an out of towner. We wanted to play something just like this to test the water wit...
Posted by Viva la Venus! on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:02:00 PST

The Forever Dead DVD...

THE FOREVER DEAD Written and Directed by Chrstine Parker Featuring the music of: Viva la Venus! Knowledge is for Fools Blister & Kevin Steinman Now available at your nearest FYE, Suncoast...
Posted by Viva la Venus! on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:32:00 PST

TOUR DIARY - 9/30/07

The Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC We got the call to play the Carrboro Music Festival for the 4th year in a row, and this year we were invited to play the best club in town. Finally! But&we were still...
Posted by Viva la Venus! on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:33:00 PST

TOUR DIARY - 7/26/07

MVP's - Raleigh, NC This was Mary Anne's "going away" party/gig. For this one we decided to play her songs one last time and she played guitar and Susan played bass. We've done these type gigs befor...
Posted by Viva la Venus! on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:56:00 PST

TOUR DIARY - 7/14/07

Volume 11 Tavern - Raleigh, NC This night is a bit of a blur, but also really special to me. It was the last real "rock out" gig with Mary Anne. We known she was leaving for a while now, and I was k...
Posted by Viva la Venus! on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:55:00 PST

TOUR DIARY - 6/30/07

The Garage - Winston-Salem, NC We love this club. It's one of the cities that really took us in and every gig here has been good to us. I'm starting to recognize a lot of the same faces every time w...
Posted by Viva la Venus! on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:53:00 PST

TOUR DIARY - 6/9/07

Farm Jam - Sanford, NC What a weekend this was for me. I played the night before with another band, so it seemed like I was here all weekend. This was the 3rd (or 4th?) year in a row that we played ...
Posted by Viva la Venus! on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:50:00 PST

End of an era - My Farewell Shows

Hello everyone!Well, as many of you may already be aware, I have grand plans to move out of the country to explore other parts of the world. As a result, Viva la Venus will be without a heavy-breathi...
Posted by Viva la Venus! on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:59:00 PST

TOUR DIARY - 6/2/07

Downtown Event Center - Raleigh, NC This show was billed as a benefit for the West Memphis 3. I have not really followed their story all that much, and don't really know how I feel about the case ei...
Posted by Viva la Venus! on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:25:00 PST