We are very pleased to announce the first ever release of ‘Defiant’ on vinyl! Available in transparent orange and transparent green vinyl with lyric insert and re-designed sleeve. Limited edition, only 300 copies of each colour made and we have a small number of each colour in stock now. ‘Defiant’ was released on CD in
‘Get A Life’ video For the forthcoming album Punk Rockers: The Best Of Vice Squad. To say that recording this album was difficult is an understatement. We were plagued with problems—big equipment failure after big equipment failure. A more detailed description of testing trivia…Trials and Tribulations Our amazing friends and supporters heard about our problems
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Beki: Originally we were going to just make a lyric video for ‘It’s Too Late To Be Normal’, but I had the idea of adding our Skullman logo’s head to images of business suits. I thought that this would illustrate the message of the song – a round peg in a square hole. What will
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My favourite part of the live set was playing Motorhead’s ‘Bomber’ followed by ‘Spitfire’, it was fantastically noisy, energetic and enjoyable to link the two songs and recreate our own bit of World War 2 on stage and it went down like a cold Snakebite on a hot day. If my memory is correct this
Over the course of your career, how has your live show changed? It’s become faster and louder but also more varied in some ways. It takes years of hard slog to become a confident performer and know which songs suit your voice and know the strengths and weaknesses of songs. What’s the benefits of keeping
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‘The Story Of My Life’ was originally written and recorded for ‘Defiant’ back In 2007 but we’ve given it the full lockdown treatment and it sounds very different to the original. Some may think it’s an anti-Christmas song but it’s really about the ever increasing commercialisation of Christmas, the unseen suffering of the animals whose
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On Christmas Day we a released a brand new re-mix of ‘A Dog Is For Life’ as a digital download only. You can pay whatever you want for the song and at least 50% of money raised will go to animal rescue organisations. <a href=”https://vicesquad.bandcamp.com/track/a-dog-is-for-life-xmas-2021-mix”>A Dog Is For Life ( Xmas 2021 Mix ) by
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Vice Squad have a long and distinguished history on the UK’s punk scene, with vocalist and rhythm guitarist Beki Bondage being a founder member for the band’s first incarnation in 1979. Beki later quit to front Ligotage and subsequently Beki And The Bombshells, and the remainder of the band split in 1985 before it was
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