The music industry's got no brains, they said BOTH OF YOU ARE BARRED

 

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Following the intervention of two anonymous guerilla philanthropists from Montevideo, 'Coventry' -the final Vichy Government album- is, much against expectations, going to come out properly-ish. The release date is Monday 10th October, 2011 AD (with the usual caveat that a million things can -and usually do- go wrong in the interim). It will be available on CD, iTunes, and other digital emporia, courtesy of Rare Breed Discs (yup, our record label is named after a Go-Betweens B-side, and I do indeed wank off to this fact).

Gigs: Friday 21st October at The Lexington, London. Support from Gyratory System and If..., DJ sets from The Quietus and Jo Bevan. £5, live acts start at 8:30.

Wednesday 16th November at The Electricity Showrooms, London. Support from Quimper. 

Below is the 'Coventry' press release.

 

 

Press releases. You hate reading them, and fuck knows I hate having to write them.

But we seem to have made another new album by mistake, so here we are when we

would both much rather be down the pub.

 

Coventry is the fourth Vichy Government album; or the fifth, if you count the A-sides/

B-sides/flotsam compilation Vanity Publishing. It has some guest appearances from

some talented friends of ours; Gyratory System play a bit of trumpet and saxophone,

and Jo Bevan (who runs the Black Plastic night and sings in If....) does a bit of

singing. Angular Records' co-founder Joe Margetts produced the album and gave it

a little more spit & polish than usual. It's probably more accessible than the 18-song

double album we made last time around. But apart from that, it's essentially more of

the same, only less so.

 

For the benefit of the overwhelming majority of music lovers who have never heard/

heard of The Vichy Government, that more of the same consists of Andrew Chilton

crafting wilfully glib pop tunes on a Yamaha Portasound and crap drum machine,

and Jamie Manners reciting nonsensical spoken-word doggerel over them in his

irritating Belfast accent.

 

Arguable highlights on Coventry include; not-very-recent atheist-bashing single 'The

Man Delusion', revolution-bashing opener 'Turn On, Tune In, Vote Mugabe', 'Siberia'

and its sequel 'Iberia', David Seabrook homage 'I'm Jack', and big-budget

number 'Oranges Are The Only Fruit'.

 

The Vichy Government have been doing this for about nine years. They stopped

being fashionable about seven years ago- such is life. They were categorised

within 'The New Cross Scene' when the NME stumbled across Angular Records'

early compilations and decided they were cool. Vichy then joined most of the other

unsignable bands on Filthy Little Angels, who released three albums (Carrion

Camping, Whores in Taxis, and aforementioned double-album White Elephant). They

have supported the Scissor Sisters and The Auteurs, and been supported by The

Long Blondes.

 

If you have no intention of listening to the album after reading that, I don't blame you.

If you have nothing whatsoever to say about it after listening to it, I don't blame you

either. Based on our usual reviewers, here is some fridge poetry to help you along.

 

WEIRDOS      SYNTHPOP DUO       CULT       OBSCURE       CASIO       SCOTTISH ACCENT

QUIRKY              SIMPLISTIC      MINIMALIST    TWEE        SATIRICAL     HARRY POTTER

ARAB STRAP    EMBITTERED      GRATING   OFFENSIVE PRETENTIOUS    TUNELESS 

SAMEY           MONOTONOUS    TIRESOME     SHITE       TOTAL SHITE     INCINERATE

Coventry will be released around October, maybe. The Vichy Government

play live at the Portland Arms, Cambridge on Monday 3rd October and the

Electricity Showrooms, Hoxton on Wednesday 16th November.

 

TRACKLISTING

 

1. Turn On, Tune In, Vote Mugabe

2. Flytipping

3. The Nudes of Modigliani

4. Kids in North Korea

5. Siberia

6. All The Young Dudes

7. St Jamie of Islington

8. Oranges Are The Only Fruit

9. I'm Jack

10. The Man Delusion

11. Iberia

12. We Are Now At War With Germany

 

For more information on THE VICHY GOVERNMENT / high res photos contact:

Joe Margetts 07963 619588

rarebreeddiscs@gmail.com

http://rarebreeddiscs.tumblr.com 

 

 

 


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