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Hailing from a country town in the south of England, these four boys have grown up with a healthy respect for the fine art that is foot to the floor Rock N’ Roll. One would think that they just haven’t had the years to have the kind of rock ‘sixth sense’ that they have, but with hair flying and guitars blazing Velvetine know how to tear up a stage! Who are Velvetine? Velvetine are a blare of retro Rock N’ Roll, hairspray and punk rock swagger, a four strong outfit based in Portsmouth, sporting drain pipe jeans, Low slung guitars and more makeup and eyeliner than your average group of men.
Who writes the songs? Aidan is our very own guitar hero, there’s no set formula but most of the riffs belong to him, When Joe joined the band we showed him vocalists like Matt Jones from The Treatment and Simon Cruz from Crashdiet and said ‘’One day you’ll have to try and sing like that!’’ A couple of weeks later he comes back to us and has the style completely mastered, having a vocalist with his range and ability plays a big part in shaping our sound and song writing. That’s really our song writing duo there! A lot of our live show has a big influence on our songs; you don’t get long to make an impression so playing something live is the true test of a good track!
February 7th: The Croft – Bristol March 2nd: Camden Barfly - London March 8th: The Edge of the Wedge – Portsmouth
March 24th :The Green Door Store – Brighton April 7th: Sticky Mikes Frog Bar – Brighton W/ Steve Conte (Ex – New York Dolls) ALT MU ISSUE 1
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Interviews by Ruby Rebelle
Please give the readers information on upcoming singles and albums. How long have you been together and where have you played? We are working on our debut single ‘Inside For Thunder’ Aidan, Harry and I have been playing music together since we with producer Sveinn M. Jonsson and legendary mastering engineer Mika Jussila (Hanoi Rocks, HIM, Jettblack, Lordi) at were 12, my first show was Iron Maiden and it changed my life! You don’t witness something like that at such a young age Great Eastern Studios, Shoreditch in London. We’re excited to without it having a massive effect on you, the moment the last have such a great team of guys working on the song with us note stopped ringing out I knew exactly what it was I wanted to and the single is set for release in early spring this year. do with my life! What ambitions do you have as a band? We want to go all the way. There’s always been an unspoken What mixture of influences is there in Velvetine? Throw AC/DC, Guns ‘N’ Roses, The Sex Pistols and The Cult into word in this band that’s it’s all or nothing, even from a young age. We want it all and we’ll do anything to get there. We work a blender. Rock N’ Roll with a snotty nose, bratty attitude and extremely hard as a band to be the best we possibly can and balls. It seems people can’t simply label us and that’s a good our shows are starting to sell out which is proof of our hard thing - We have old school Rockers, Punks, Metal heads and work! Short term we’re looking to book shows all around the people with big hair and cowboy boots at our shows. We also UK in 2013 and once ‘Inside For Thunder’ is released we’ll be listen to a lot of newer bands too though and we’re all on the looking for management and an agency. same page musically which really helps.
U p c o m i n g To u r s . . .
Hot, new and very exciting hairstyles, Velvetine are a band ready for the big time and all that is required to do just that. We spoke to Bass Guitarist for the band, Tom Hewson, for his insight into their world.....