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Interview
Vixens

Vixens

date
Monday 9th August, 2010 1:57PM

Been around since?
2006

Current line up?
brad guitar, andrew synth , joel vocal samples drum machine stuff , steve bass

Where are you based?
the internet

Musical history?
audio students jamming together while studying influenced by cure, gang of four, tom tom club, teenage jesus and the jerks a bunch of metal bands life in invercargill really just absorbing a lot of things which were going on around us.

What are you listening to at the moment?
buzzcocks, neu, kraftwerk, cage, mobb deep , a lot of neptunes stuff bit of jay-z, dna , pets with pets, sonic youth that kinda stuff

What is your writing/recording process?
at present passing things back and fourth via gmail

Your Dream Collaboration?
pretty happy with each other but looking forward to workin with gidget sparks a little bit more.

What releases do you have out?
we have released v for victory was debut ep recorded during 2006 and 2007 mostly home recordings and a bunch of early songs which we played at our first few shows , future people is the follow up ep which was just released as a download on myspace, i heart mediafire.

Anything new on the way – what can we expect?
the unexpected, album, split 12 inch with gidget sparks little information about that at present two words would be chaos + hiphop

Are you signed to a record label?
we are signed to envex www.envexrecordz.com they're perfect releasing records for awesome bands pets with pets, moron says what, airknight parsath and a bunch more.

When/where are you playing next?
world tour

The state of music in NZ is….
its quite good really there are heaps of bands putting out a lot of interesting stuff. there are some really good songs been written/recorded/performed its such a broad scene as well heaaaps of different sounds the diverstiy is great, it would be good if someone released a compilation which really documented the sound of new zealand music at the moment. im sure a lot of people would like to hear that.