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Vincent Black Shadow introduce themselves....
02/03/07Daniel Van Owen here, reporting for the first of the Vincent Black Shadow
diaries on
POPTONES.CO.UK. All right, y’all don’t know us, we don’t know you, let’s
skip the foreplay and get into it (snap snap snap snap).
Vincent Black Shadow is the band that I play guitar in. There are five of
us, each with his own foibles and eccentricities, and lemme just encapsulate
what kinda people we are with a quick top five:
TOP FIVE ARTICLES IN VBS TOUR VAN (AUGUST US TOUR):
1) Magazines: GAPE, OUI, SEXY ATTITUDE and the WAX POETICS THE FUNKADELIC
ISSUE
2) Bongo Drums (used only to annoy whoever is driving)
3) Music – Funkadelic (first two), Creedence (obligatory road music),
Mammatus, Sir Richard Bishop, Sabbath (SABOTAGE), Miles (Pangea, Dark
Magus), SHIVER (san fran’s best acid rock band ever ever EVA), Ghostface
Killah – FISHSCALE, graves at sea ( i hate this shit, but dirck had to
listen to it whenever he drove – singer sounds like fuckin mum-ra from
Thundercats. Why does so much doom have to be so STUPID? At least Adam kept
his black metal to himself).
4) Unmentionables - yeah, I shouldn’t be mentioning the porn, but there was
much worse stuff in there – I hope dave doesn’t smuggle his pistol on tour
this time round… and of course there were many other things, some obtained
from dudes in Humboldt County, some from Russian sailors with hollow legs…
5) IDIOTS – Dave, Rufus, Adam, Dirck and Myself
All right, just a snapshot. Vincent Black Shadow is, for those of you who
don’t know, a five-piece psychedelic punk band from Baltamont, Maryland, US
Amerika. We’re five semi-dissipated dudes with just a hankerin to put all
of our pedals on and play riffs as fast as we can, while letting adam emote
all over everybody. Not high art, just art while high. We like to call it
’69 style hardcore, like the fugs meet infest.
Poptones Signs New Band - Vincent Black Shadow - Julian Cope and Cherrystones approve...
19/02/07Artist: Vincent Black Shadow
Title: Vincent Black Shadow
Label: Poptones
Format: CD and Download
Release Date: 7th of May 2007
Distributor: Vital
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Brothers’n’Sisters. However, I’ll tell you this, gentlemen of the Shadow, you’ve achieved one excellent and real motherfucker of a debut. It’s hard as nails, catchy, obsessive, smart and dumber than almost everything out there. This stuff will be on the compulsory listening list in a few years’ time, of that I’m sure. You catchy motherfuckers deserve to go far.
Julian Cope
One day Poptones got a phone call from Mr Cherrystones, infamous psychedelic DJ and all-around Mr Knowledge when it comes to music and new bands. What did he phone Poptones about? Vincent Black Shadow. ‘You’ve got to sign this band...Poptones needs this band. I can’t stop playing their album’. Ok. We’ve gotta admit. When Cherrystones says that this is the shit, you have to be a believer. We got the album and you know what? He’s right.
For all the la-de-da talk of The Stooges that we’ve heard from innumerable bands over the years who among them possessed an ounce of that true spirit and attack? Name-dropping aside, the contagious madness and cool menace of genuine motor-city rock’n’roll, the original rumble, has slept dormant for a long time. Well, Poptones believes Vincent Black Shadow just delivered a record to blow all pretenders out of the water, an antidote to the slickness in the form of rock’n’roll flayed down to bones and muscle. Sounds good? You feel ready to testify? Brace yourself, this is no-holes-barred power-trip music of the most delinquent tradition.
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Cherrystones remixes Vincent Black Shadow
16/01/07This just in true believers! Cherrystones is in process of remixing Vincent Black Shadow ‘Child of Orion’, one mix, is a dirty-dronerock thing of beauty and the other ... let’s just say that Cherrystones refuses to discuss it until its ready for release on Vincent Black Shadow’s self-titled debut album and 7inch coming out in 2007. He’s marked information about the second remix in a file marked CIA. But needless to say, early versions are ... astounding.
All this time we've been making plans and documentations for 2007...
17/12/06Poptones Wishes You a Merry Christmas...!
And we wish to thank everyone that has played our records, wrote about our records, took our emails and our calls, visited the website, bought our records, downloaded our stuff. We love you all.
And whilst we are on holiday, we just want to drop some news about what is happening in 2007 and what to look forward to at Poptones Recording Corporation towers.
read more... Poptones introduces their new signings VINCENT BLACK SHADOW!
05/12/06One day Poptones got a phone call from Mr Cherrystones, infamous psychedelic DJ and all-around Mr Knowledge when it comes to music and new bands. What did he phone Poptones about? Vincent Black Shadow. ‘You’ve got to sign this band...Poptones needs this band. I can’t stop playing their album’. Ok. We’ve gotta admit. When Cherrystones says that this is the shit, you have to be a believer. We got the album and you know what? He’s right. You can listen to a track by clicking here.
For all the la-de-da talk of The Stooges that we’ve heard from innumerable bands over the years who among them possessed an ounce of that true spirit and attack? Name-dropping aside, the contagious madness and cool menace of genuine motor-city rock’n’roll, the original rumble, has slept dormant for a long time. Well, Poptones believes Vincent Black Shadow just delivered a record to blow all pretenders out of the water, an antidote to the slickness in the form of rock’n’roll flayed down to bones and muscle. Sounds good? You feel ready to testify? Brace yourself, this is no-holes-barred power-trip music of the most delinquent tradition.
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Julian Cope on Poptones New Signings Vincent Black Shadow....
13/11/06(I Wanna Be) Gnawing On Bones Like Mark, Don & Mel
Okay Motherfuckers, it’s official. Rock’n’roll is dead, long live rock’n’roll. This 21st century has finally superseded 1965… 1969 and 1970… and Cleveland 1975, too! It’s all been conflated into one single end-of-the-world ANIMAL HOUSE party wherein the fratrock of The Swamp Rats, The Sparkles, The Sonics and The Hangmen of Fairfield County nowadays co-habits with the lyrically enlightened post-Doors, post-MC5 early/mid-70s proto space-metal of Granicus, Groundhogs, Bleib Alien, B.O.C., and most of Todd Clark’s various incarnations. What my saying? I’m saying, Brothers’n’Sisters, that the king is dead, long live the king and all the great truisms and platitudes of the West are henceforth shown to be real … Punk’s not dead, the north will rise again, don’t eat the brown acid, only the industrial heartlands make for classic rock’n’roll, King Arthur’s only sleeping, divorces makes winners only out of the lawyers, and that ain’t no way to treat a lady…
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