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Slick Idiot 6/1/10 show review

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:34:01 +0000

What a fucking sick show. The turnout was great (especially for a tuesday night in ABQ), with over 70 diehards coming out to make it happen. Slick Idiot killed it, despite the band being a little beat up thanks to health issues and such. A real pleasure to meet En Esch in person finally, I only wish I had a copy of my CD with the song we did together to give to him. I got into a few mosh pits, and got to beat myself up to “Godlike” and “A drug against war”. Reminded myself I’m human as I slammed against others and yelled lyrics at the top of my lungs. Had a great time opening with Vertigo Venus for the show, got to hear my new drumkit mic’d up and love love loved it.

Thank you to the Launchpad and Slick Idiot, you guys rock, and I hope we do it again soon.
/brian

Be the first in the WORLD to get our new CD … tomorrow!

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:07:34 +0000

Come spend and evening with Vertigo Venus at Warehouse21! We’ll have our new CD in hand, hot (literally) off the presses – if you’re at this show, you’re the FIRST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD to get it!

check it out here:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=122161584463220

Please come out – it’s free – and get some new music while you’re at it!

Thanks,
/brian

Red Elvises, Warehouse 21, Hot Topic, and more great shows, coming up!

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 05:10:31 +0000

We’ve got a TON of great shows coming up, and we hope to see you out!

Firstly, we’re opening for the RED ELVISES at Corazon in Santa Fe, NM on May 17th:

This is sure to be an AWESOME show!

Next up, we’ve got a great gig in Santa Fe again, at Warehouse 21 – ALL AGES and FREE!

We follow that up with a REALLY IMPORTANT GIG. On May 26th, we’re playing an instore appearance at Hot Topic at the Coronado mall in Albuquerque. yeah, that’s right.

So here’s the deal. We need as many people as we can get at this gig. Why? Because if we can show HT management that we kick ass (which we do), they’ll sell our new CD. That means a lot of good things for us.

so, what we need YOU to do is show up at 5:30pm to Hot Topic in Coronado mall, ready to rock. Bring EVERY FRIEND YOU HAVE with you! PLEASE! I know we ask a lot of you, but this is REALLY important!

And Finally, we are still selling tickets for our june 6th show with SLICK IDIOT, featuring former members of KMFDM and PIGFACE, for only FIVE DOLLARS! This is sure to be an AMAZING GIG. Get in touch with us at vertigovenus@gmail.com to purhcase your tickets, do it now!

Thank you as always for your support, it means THE WORLD to us!

-brian, drums

ALL AGES show tomorrow (5/6)! We’ll be doing MORE STUFF we’ve NEVER DONE BEFORE!

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 04:50:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

Last night, we closed a set in a way we’ve never done before. Tomorrow, we’ll be doing more amazing things we’ve never done, as we play with ABQ local rockers Shoulder Voices for their ALL AGES CD release @ Revlis gallery at 712 Central .SE in Albuquerque:

This show is ALL AGES, with a $3 cover and A FREE CD from shoulder voices! Check them out here:

http://www.myspace.com/shouldervoices

Also, in the next week, you’ll start to see a lot of cool new stuff from us, as we gear up for our very own CD release of our NEW CD!

On May 17th, we’ll be opening for the RED ELVISES at Corazon in Santa fe – sure to be a great gig… come out! Info is here:

http://www.corazonsantafe.com

We’re also selling tickets RIGHT NOW for our upcoming gig with SLICK IDIOT on June 1st. Slick Idiot features former members of KMFDM and PIGFACE. This is going to be the show to kick off the summer with! Get your tickets from us for only FIVE DOLLARS! Email us at vertigovenus at gmail dot com to purchase!

There’s plenty more good stuff coming, so please do keep your eye on our calendar and beyond… 20ten is the year of VERTIGO VENUS!

/brian

An interesting past few days…

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:25:04 +0000

It’s been an interesting past few days or so for Vertigo Venus.

Vertigo Venus worked very hard in 2008. We played tons of shows, made new music, opened for big bands, and did a two month run as The Angry Inch in at the Vortex Theatre for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”. We were rewarded by winning best Punk band, Bassist, Vocalist, and Drummer, as well as best Stage production and 2nd best guitarist in the 2009 Best of Burque.

When we won, there seemed to be an air of dislike toward us for the fact that we had marketed ourselves and campaigned for these positions. We were accused of cheating in various channels, and even the mention of Best Drummer made sure to mention that I was good at drumming, but better at networking.

When the 2010 BOB came around, there was mention on various channels that we would win silly categories that we didn’t fall in, and musicians that said that we shouldn’t promote ourselves, that we would do better to sit on our hands and wait.

That’s not the Vertigo Venus way.

So, we did a small amount of promotion asking our fans to vote for us in the categories of Best Punk band, guitarist, vocalist, bassist, and drummer. We didn’t market nearly as much as we usually do for something like this.

When the 2010 BOB issue came out, I picked it up, anticipating the results. I was surprised to see that in the Music category, five main categories were missing; each of those being the categories we’d campaigned for.

I then found out via one of our fans on Twitter that there was a mention in the Alibi’s “Staff Picks” section on the website saying that we’d been “retired” from winning Best of Burque. I found this interesting, because, well, we hadn’t been informed that we’d been retired.

Our fans took this and ran with it, coining the Twitter trending topic #vertigovenusgate, and spreading the word. The issue wasn’t that we didn’t win; the issue was that we were discounted from winning for a reason that didn’t make sense; as it was said in the web posting, because of anticipation that we’d win some category like “best sculpture”, we were retired from winning Best of Burque.

Soon after attention was brought to this, the posting was removed from the Alibi’s webpage. But, it was too late; VertigoVenusgate was already in full effect.

A posting on the Alibi’s forums brought to my attention a proposed explanation for the omission; if a category didn’t have enough votes for a clear first, second and third place winner to be declared, then the category would be omitted; if there were so many votes that there were an 80 way tie, the Alibi would remove the category because it would seem one-sided.

I find this hard to swallow, though; in previous BOBs, there were plenty of two way ties; in one case, Torture Victim and Le Chat Lunatique both tied for a best of position. So, by the Alibi’s reasoning, if someone were to do “too well” in a category, they would be discounted from winning that category?

It’s difficult to believe that this would happen, but obviously it did. The reasoning for this seems contradictory, but we’re not in a place to argue much. Our fans, however, have already run with this issue. It’s actually worked out as nice promotion for our new album, “Success or Suicide”.

While we respect the Alibi and it’s employees, as well as their responsibility to make the choices they make, we’d still ask for a clearer view of why, after seeing the hostility put toward us for being good at what we do on the internet and in other ways, it would be reinforced by the Alibi’s music editor in a hastily posted comment on the website. The posting didn’t say that we didn’t win any categories or were not allowed to compete in those categories because we cheated or because as they have insinuated, we’re “too good”. The posting stated that because it was expected that we’d take some silly category, we were discounted. But why were the categories taken with us? And what about the bands and musicians who were also pushing for those categories? Surely there were other musicians who wanted best drummer, guitarist, and so on. But, the Alibi would have me believe that there were not, so little of them in fact, that it warranted the complete removal of the categories, as well as us, from the Best of Burque.

It’s a bit offensive, and while I realize that it may be been in jest, being “retired” against our will wasn’t funny. I’d still kindly request an explanation outside of the general disclaimer of “not enough votes for others”. Perhaps someday, I will see one.

/brian

Vv wants to play the Warped Tour!

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:24:59 +0000

Hey everyone,

We’re in the running to play the 2010 WARPED TOUR. We’re competing against other bands for a slot on the Las Cruces, NM Warped stage, and we’d REALLY like to make it! We need your support, though, to do it! All you have to do is click the below image, you’ll go to our band’s contest page. Create an account, tell the website that you don’t want to receive their mailing list, and then vote for us. You can vote once a day, so please spread the word and vote everyday!

Thanks as always,

Brian, Drums

Tour diary: days 1, 2 and 3

admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:10:17 +0000

We’re on day 3 of our tinseltown takeover tour now; it’s been a lot of hard work, but we are doing great. Day 1 took us to phoenix AZ, and a show at chaser’s set up by our good friend Dave Strand. Day 2 took us to long beach for a show at que sera, a cool little bar in downtown long beach. The crowd was into what we had to bring, and we had good fun.

Day 3 took us to two shows in one day, firstly at the anarchy library, one of the most punk bars we’ve ever seen; the crowds were into us, and we dropped one of the most hardcore sets we’ve ever done. We then moved on to a second show at mr T’s lounge, a converted bowling alley in los angeles with one of the best sound guys I’ve ever seen.

The work has been hard on this tour, but we’re very proud of what we are doing. Tomorrow we will be in santa monica. You can alway keep up with us at http://www.twitter.com/vertigovenus , or here on our blog. Watch for more updates soon!