The Vinyl Junkies at Playfest
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be playing this year’s Playfest festival. With acts like Feeder, Ash, Pigeon Detectives, Reverend and The Makers and Natty we’ll be playing the Big Topstage. Shortlisted for ‘Best New Festival for 2011′ its sure to be a cracking weekend. Contact us for discounted tickets (we’re playing the Saturday) as we’ll bring a minibus if there’s enough interest! See you at the front!
The Vinyl Junkies to play tribes after party at ginglik 27th april
We are excited to announce that we will be playing Tribes‘ after party at the awesome Ginglik on the 27th April. After Tribes’ headline show at Shepherds Bush they’ll be playing a DJ set to continue the night. This is a seriously cool venue and a big one for us-check out the website http://www.ginglik.co.uk/.
Brixton Jamm and updates
We’ve been so busy the past couple of weeks- so we thought we’d compile everything into one post. The build up and preparation to the 31st March nearly gave Matt an aneurysm, something the rest of the band took lightly. Organising coaches is now a Vinyl Junkie speciality, and although people smashing their heads on bonnets, drinking unbelievable amounts and needing the toilet within five minutes of leaving- we’ll keep doing it. We played to a full house at Brixton Jamm, we loved it and rocked it. Also, briefly speaking with Glen Matlock about his car getting washed was surreal- but altogether an awesome experience. Thanks to everyone who came, Jamm and Absent Kelly for organising the night.
“The Vinyl Junkies deliver an energetic performance with strong guitar hooks and strong melodies- a young and fresh rock band, definitely worth a listen!” Absent Kelly
Gigging again in London, we played New Cross the Wednesday after. Not quite the Jamm feel, but not hard when there’s only mentalists watching you- but we’ll be back. Last Saturday was a change of mood as we played The Goat, Codicote, one of our regular pub circuit gigs. Thanks Brenda, we had a great night! Check the next post for some exciting news.
‘Broken Britain never sounded so good’
We owe thanks to all of you who supported us with the Emerging Icons competition through Facebook. Run weekly, it’s chance for unsigned bands (that’s us) to get a feature on Absolute Radio.
Our track ‘Gangs’, got through to the final five on the Sunday Night Music Club on Absolute Radio landing a review from Pete Donaldson:
“An alloy of Thin Lizzy-esque riffage and Van Halen duelling. Broken Britain never sounded so good”.