THE VINYL VENDETTAS

ELLE MAGAZINE: People to watch in 2009!

2008-12-22T08:09:00.006Z

The Vinyl Vendettas, stylish trendsetters that we are, have been listed as #6 in Elle UK's top 20 things to watch in 2009, confirming the information that next year is indeed the international year of the vinyl vendetta...

FINAL DATES FOR 2008:
Saturday 27th Dec, Clwb Ifor Bach (Cardiff)
New Years Eve, Clwb Ifor Bach - BACH TO THE FUTURE PARTY EXTRAVAGANZA!

COMING UP IN 2009:
Beth & Fi Vee hit the clubs in Australia, wooh!
Thursday 31st Jan, The Heavenly Social (London)

sooooooon @ swn festival!

2008-11-13T00:43:00.001Z

is us. the vendettas like,
in person. clwb ifor bach.
nos sadwrn, saturday night.
15.11.2008.

uh huh.

John Peel Day: get involved

2008-10-08T23:52:00.003Z

THE VV's join this fabulous line-up @ Clwb Ifor Bach next Monday...

The Vinyl Vendettas @ Swn Festival

2008-09-30T21:50:00.003Z

Just (officially) announced - the VV's second appearance at the, um, second Swn Music Festival, running from Nov 14th - 16th in many, many venues across Cardiff.

The Vendetta's will be throwing a party on Saturday 15th Nov @ Clwb Ifor Bach - a Saturday Night Dance Off the likes of which have never been seen before!

for more details on Swn, check this out!

and this....

TRANSMISSION FROM THE FUN POLICE

2008-09-25T23:33:00.006Z

DEAR VINYL VENDETTAS. STOP. WE HAVE SOME HOMEWORK FOR YOU. STOP. DON'T THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH KICKING UP YOUR HEELS AT THE RADIO ONE STAGE & SILENT DISCO AT READING WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. STOP. YOUR HOMEWORK IS THIS. STOP. "READING: IN 40 WORDS OR LESS". STOP. DUE SEPTEMBER 26TH. STOP. THE FUN POLICE. STOP. END TRANSMISSION.

OH NO!! DUE TOMORROW!! I don't think we can get away with "the dog ate it" this time....

CATRIN JAMES:
This years Reading festival was a competition of who can have the most extravagant stage show - highlights : The Ting Tings had roped in(no pun intended) a professional skipping team to dance, hop and swing to 'That's not my Name' to impressive proportions,not one mess up! Friendly Fires had their own carnival with 2 exotic dancers clad in bejewelled bikinis and huge feather capes shaking their money makers , so a Brazil style party ensued! Best dressed highlight for me was Leila from the Duke Spirit in a shiny leotard with a gold sequined tunic on top complimented by a pair of gorgeous late 60's boots - sex on legs I reckon!
There's loads more to say,like The Cribs knocking it bandy as the closing headliners of the Radio 1/NME stage on Sunday with a very youthful looking indie legend on the axe - result!

BETHAN ELFYN:
There's something about Reading - It is groundhog day of the best kind. My 8th year at Reading, and each year just gets better. The cameraderie of the production crew working the stage, the Vendettas on the ones and twos, seeing bands I know get amazing reactions from the crowd, and seeing music that I love materialised in the flesh. Santagold's disco madness, MGMT's flamboyant hippy falsetto glory, iconic and sonic depth from Last Shadow Puppets, pure teenage nostalgia from the Manics, deafening volume from Wombats fans, and another year of Silent Disco madness - this time DJing to Kate Moss and friends apparantly! These are the golden moments, the snapshots of memories that last beyond the comedown.

JEN LONG (OUR SPECIAL FRIEND):
Reading is awesome. Sorry, that's not much of a blog entry, but it's true. Every year I swear it gets better. Where else can you bounce to Chromeo, be blown away by a calypso-ing Friendly Fires, bop to Vampire Weekend and bang your head away to the epicness of Rage Against the Machine. Yeh, sure there's other festivals in glorious surroundings and exotic settings, blah, blah, blah... but in Reading the stages are close together, there's no hippies, and plenty of vinyl vendettas. Which is awesome.

LB – ARTIST LIAISON:
So while my beauteous lady vendettas were rocking the decks by day I was running around with a walkie-talkie and meal ticket allocations looking after the bands back stage. Its probably one of my favourite jobs of the year where I’m lucky enough to mix hanging out with my girls whilst buzzing around helping out TMs in distress and band members who always always lose their sticky passes....but night time is always the right time playing some tunes and busting out some eclectic moves at the silent disco! I heart Reading. Rock on ‘09.

MAKING YOUR WEEKENDS BETTER!!

2008-09-17T11:41:00.002Z

yo friends in sound!

and it is with great love & affection that we greet thee. our saturday night residency @ clwb ifor bach continues ... this month we celebrate a year of making you sweaty & sexy on the dance floor.we also celebrate yet another amazing year at the reading festival...silent disco was a resounding success and it was ace to see thousands of folks with their hands in the air.

this weekend, Beth & Jem take on KRAZY HOUSE in Liverpool on Saturday night (20th Sept), whilst Laura holds down the fort in Cardiff.dancing feet across the land!

coming up on the party calender...WATCH THIS SPACE!!

October
Rumour has it, that Hot Chip will take on The Vinyl Vendettas (Hot Chip after party), for the soundclash of the century!

The Vendetta's go East...Buckinghamshire or London, take your pick!

November
Swn Festival: The Vendettas throw the party of the weekend!

The Vendettas go to The Valleys ... Pontypridd will never be the same again...

Not to mention the fact that we will be holding down the dance-fort at Clwb Ifor Bach EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT PEOPLES!!

see you on the dance floor - make it look gooooood!
xxx

Reading Festival: Silent Disco....

2008-08-24T11:22:00.002Z

over two thousand peeps going nuts to big cheesy dancing tunes...vampire weekend, pulp, hot chip, house of pain, queen, nirvana, jerry lee lewis...smoke machines, crazy dutch comperes, jumping up and down, thousands of hands in air...big time party...

...BIG TIME!!!

Reading Festival 2008: Saturday, 7:06pm

2008-08-23T19:06:00.000Z

And so far, it's been a helluva day! Kids In Glass Houses, Santogold, Mystery Jets...Jemma Vendetta sure was happy happy happy to see Lady Santogold, who was truly ace. Los Campesinos cracked an amazing set on The Festival Republic stage, with dancing & singing galore.

As The Foals warm up The Radio One stage right now, may I present to you photographic evidence of the day so far...

the line up...

beth & jemma DJ'ing....

Los Campesinos!

reading 2008: the preparations...

2008-08-22T10:29:00.001Z

shunning the M4 east for the comforts of first great western (first class no less!), three of the fearless vendettas (accompanied by an assortment of really rather useful sound engineers) set off to reading 2008 - their fourth as the musical puppeteers of the radio one/nme stage...

with thanks to snoozy bands who took their eyes of the champagne on their rider at last weeks V festival, the ladies watched the world whizz by in a blitz of bubbles and badge-bagging (see photo below).

thursday night pre-reading festival means reconiciliations with old friends (the gals from my ex-boyfriends records, steve lamacq, neil pengilly - the man who decides who you see at reading) at various pubs & bars across the river of reading.

friday morning means arriving on site before the bars open, to check out the stage set up, check in with the stage managers, and spread records out across the decks in order to kick off what we know is going to be yet another brilliant reading festival weekend....

READING FESTIVAL: 2008 .... HELLO READING!!!

2008-08-20T10:02:00.004Z

yep, the five ladies from the vinyl vendettas return to the reading festival to keep you entertained for the fourth year running. the crew take the floor in between bands on the radio one/nme stage over the course of the entire weekend, keeping the tent humming with tunes as well as anticipation.

come check us out maintaining the good vibes in between such stellar acts as vampire weekend, blood red shoes, the duke spirit, the cribs, manic street preachers, justice, foals, coner oberst, adam green, yeasayer, santogold and more...

the ladies are on fire at the moment, having warmed up their dancing hands and shoes all over the damn country, including a blazing set at latitude festival.

AND DON"T FORGET SILENT DISCO!
check your head (phones)...once more, hands will be the the air, and the neighbours will only hear the sound of joy, as thousands of folks dance along the the vendettas selection of twisted anthems and twisting dancing madness in your headphones...

we'll be updating our blog over the course of the weekend with photos and stories galore, as well as short crazy films appearing on our myspace...
www.myspace.com/thevinylvendettas.

YOU GOTTA FIGHT! FOR YOUR RIGHT! TO PARTY....

what we gots...

2008-08-04T22:00:00.003Z

as always, the ladies have been keeping busy as busy can be...Jem, Laura & Beth once more had Latitude Festival thrilled to the core, Fi & Beth hit the road to North Wales to DJ alongside some amazing performance art from friends of Vivienne Westwood, Catrin has been keeping them geeky cool local-side.

oh - and we had a photo shoot yesterday. hell yeah! look out for the russian prossie pix coming to page three near you soon! Check out the post-photoshoot sass....

THINGS WE GOT COMING UP...

Saturday 16th August
Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th August
READING FESTIVAL...all weekend @ Radio One/NME Stage
+ special appearances at Silent Disco and some swanky VIP bar

Saturday 30th August
Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

We also have a TBC show or two in London, and plans for a party in New York in October!

A COOL, COOL SUMMER...

2007-09-29T15:03:00.000Z

The Vendetta's have had a hell of a summer...

Kicked off in April with Fionna venturing to New York's Lower Eastside to DJ at Saint Jeromes on Clinton Street, before heading out on tour with HOT CHIP.

Meanwhile, back in Cardiff, Jemma formed a band called HECK & supported The Fall. And the Vendettas got busy at Clwb Ifor Bach on a regular basis. The Venn Festival got a repeat helping after rocking Venn Radio in 2006.

The girls then hit Glastonbury, Latitide, The Green Man Festival, The Radio One stage at Reading (for the 3rd time), Silent Disco at Reading (with My Ex Boyfriends Records) and more...oh - and we had delicious necklaces made for us by TATTY DEVINE to celebrate our appearance at Tapestry Goes West.
Check 'em out...

Now, we are attempting to "settle down for the autumn", and are swooping the festival dust off our records for a Saturday night residency at Clwb Ifor Bach.

Yep ... every Saturday night after 11:00pm, Womanby Street Cardiff will rock with the sounds from the ladies V.

Vendettas across the world...

2007-02-28T10:30:00.000Z

yep, the ladies vee love to kick it international stylee, and soon Beth Vee will be heading off to SXSW and a road trip through Phoenix, Arizona & California, and Fi Vee will be taking care of business for Hot Chip on their April US tour. Whilst in NYC, Fi Vee is going to be DJ'ing at a little Lower East Side bar called St Jeromes...more details to come.

Check out Hot Chip:

Fri 20th - Webster Hall, NYC
Sat 21st - 9.30 Club, Washington
Sun 22nd - Orange Peel, Ashville
Mon 23rd - Emory Uni, Atlanta
Wed 25th - Antones, Austin
Thu 26th - Granada Theater, Dallas
Sat 28th - Coachella Festival, Indio

Love the ladies vee..
x

It's about time the VV's had some news...

2007-02-07T13:55:00.000Z

Fi Vendetta has just returned from a tour of New Zealand & Australia with Peaches. Along the way she DJ'ed at Lilyworld at the Perth Big Day Out, kicking out the rock jams and impressing folks from all over the place, including Crystal Method DJ's and Spank Rock. Her new heros are Justice, Hot Chip & The Presets. She's also recruited some ladies to get The Vinyl Vendettas party started in Melbourne. And you don't stop...

Meanwhile, back in the UK, Bethan & the gals are re-uniting with the fabulous My Ex-Boyfriends Records collective (ah, remember Silent Disco @ Reading 2006 ladies?) for a knees-up at THE SOCIAL in London on Valentines DayMake a date with the ladies, wear impractical shoes;
get the fucking party started...

photos from the (northern) summer...

2006-12-14T02:44:00.000Z

seems like us v'vees are big myspace whores and have been neglecting the highbrow world of la blogspot. so lettuce share some pix, from our summer...

reading 2006 line-up (we're on there somewhere!)

the vinyl vendettas deli-tray, reading 2006

beth, complete with rainhat (no rain) watching primal scream at reading 2006

the vinyl vendettas & elis, backstage at the radio one stage, reading 2006

the vinyl vendettas & the artist services team, reading 2006

the vinyl vendettas dj'ing at THE GREEN MAN FESTIVAL 2006

a vinyl vendetta in australia: soundclash!!

2006-04-07T08:05:00.000Z

you know the vinyl vendettas are an international collective of sisters in sound, right? well last friday, fi vee, who is back in australia, played the first of a regular monthly series of events, MUSIC vs MUSIC: A DJ SOUNDCLASH.her partner in crime is dashing rock'n'roll hairdresser & all-round debonair gentleman, john paul rosette.

man, there were girls dancing with girls who were taking photos of their breasts! there was war on the decks, sir mixalots "baby got back" fighting it out with queens "fat bottom girls"...it was friday night dj-ing heaven.

HIGHLIGHTS - TERRA FIRMA, FRIDAY 31st MARCH
just what i needed (the cars)
cum feel the noize (slade)
back in black (ac/dc)
common people (pulp)
burning down the house (talking heads)
under pressure (queen & david bowie)
i know what boys like (the slits)
baby got back (sir mixalot)
jet boy jet girl (the damned)
the model (kraftwerk)
rebel rebel (david bowie)
sweet child of mine (guns n roses)
rapture (blondie)
millkshake (kellis)
thriller (michael jackson)
wouldn't it be nice (the beach boys)
message (the grates)
mr pharmacist (the fall)
take me out (franz)
cherrybomb (the runaways)
cha cha twist (the detroit cobras)

vinyl vendettas: the collective

2006-04-07T07:59:00.000Z

THE CARDIFF MASSIVE: SAT 25TH MARCH
CLWB IFOR BACH, CARDIFF

So you want the gossip then? Yes, Saturday night was a good 4-hour warm up for Vendetta deck action. New Vendettas Cat & Jem came armed with some gems of dancability weirdness, with Oliver the musical getting the strangest reaction of spontaneous singing ever seen in Clwb on a Saturday - actually no, rugby nights probably beat us hands down on that score. Just.

Huge thanks to Cat's 'New York via Swansea' possee that shimmied and strutted around the middle bar with enough style and elegance to make us proud! And we apparantly have our very own French boy groupie who said he doesn't get 'cool' music back home - yummie!

Here's select tracklisting highlights - til we couldn't be bothered to write any more down...

Holly Golightly - Walk a Mile
Piney Gir - Crying
Bonzo Dog Do Da Band - Canyons of your mind
Jeffreyson Airplane - White Rabbit
Frank Zappa - Wowie Zowie
Guided By Voices - As We Go Up We Go Down
Make Up - The Prophet
Deerhoof - Gigadance
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
The Kinks - Yes Sir, No Sir
Royal Trux - Waterpark
Sleater Kinney - Faraway
Fiery Furnaces - Single Again
Mary Jane Hooper - I Got Reason
Slits - Grapevine
Dr John - Jump Sturdy
Whirlwind Heat - Orange
Capt Beefheart - Zigzag Wanderer
Liar - Mr, Your On fire, Mr
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Honolula Rock n' Roll
Del Shannon - Runnaway
Stones - Street Fighting Man
Bow Wow Wow - C-90
Roxy Music - Virginia plain
William Shatner - Lucy In the Sky
Style Council - Shout to the Top
Squeeze - Cool for Cats
Bowie - Jean Jeanie
Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach
Stones - Brown Sugar
Wire - Dot Dash Dot Dash
Sex Pistols - Holiday In the Sun
Suzie Quatro - Devil Gate Drive
Dion - Runaround Sue
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
....Oliver - Oomphpahpah

we have a space, some gigs, and the beat!!

2006-02-22T11:13:00.000Z

finally, the ladies have gotten it together on myspace. 189 friend in less than a week. come, feel the noise!! you can check us out @ www.myspace.com/thevinylvendettas.
gig listings, cool tunes and a lot of nice mates.

Upcoming international gigs include:

sat 25th march, terra firma, northcote - Australia!!

sat 25th march, clwb ifor bach, cardiff - Wales!!

sat 8th april, fused @ the riverside hotel, cardiff - Wales.

FI VEE'S DANCEFLOOR FILLERS INCLUDE:
The Beatles "Yellow Submarine"
Le Tigre "I'm So Excited"
Boston "More Than A Feeling"
The Rolling Stones "Monkey Man"
Murder City Devils "Boom Swagger Boom"
Mary Jane Hooper "I Got Reasons"
The Rogers Sisters "Emotion Control"
anything by THE SONICS...and a smattering of ROXY MUSIC for good measure...

LE B'S PRIME CUTS OF NOISE:
The Slits "Heard it through the grapevine"
Elvis "Guitar Man"
Minutemen "Felt like a Gringo"
The Trashmen "Surfin' Bird"
Betty Wright "Clean Up Woman"
Les Savy Fav 'The Dollar Bin"
+ anything by Shellac, Sonic Youth, Love, Jerry Reed, Pixies and on and on...

THE VV'S GO INTERNATIONAL!

2006-01-11T12:38:00.000Z

yes...with fi vee on her way back to australia indefinately, the sisters in sound are going international! le vee and be vee are flying the flag in cardiff and beyond with their funky moves, and fi vee heading up the antipodean vendetta chapter, the ladies are in for a wild and creative year, with plans for international radio shows and reading reunions!

stay tuned!

the ladies rocked clwb ifor bach, dec 16 05

2005-12-17T14:47:00.000Z

run dmc/aerosmith "walk this way"
the beatles "yellow submarine"
were a couple of highlights....

snowing in detroit

2005-12-01T19:36:00.000Z

hey hey from the travelling vendetta!

in detroit, ROCK CITY today, for the third show on the travelling circus that is the sinead o'connor/sly&robbie tour.i am assistant tour manager & merch chick. right now the band and crew love me 'cause i organised great sandwiches and gave them $20 to buy dinner.

cheese, our awesome lighting guy (who i met earlier this year on The HIVES/BLUES EXPLOSION/D4 tour) and i are about to take a taxi to see motown records!

cleveland tomorrow....it's good to be back!!!! (ten points to you who recoginse the quotes)

f x

stories from the dj booth...

2005-10-27T18:22:00.000Z

last weekend the VV's dj'ed at clwb ifor bach, at the dudes abide. it was the first time that we'd been together as a proper, power threesome since our amazing rocking of da radio one/nme stage at reading... and our super-fun set (in matching vinyl vendettas cardigans!) ... we were expecting a lot of fun, as shooting at unarmed men had played with big joan...man, we were going to bust out the fall, lightning bolt, shellac and some hip new band that laura & i never heard of but our ever-cool ms elfyn is all over...

seriously though...our first requests were incubus (what do you think?) arcade fire (this is a rock club) and the rolling stones. always happy to oblige, i played the last fella 'monkey man'. an hour later, said fella comes up to me...

drunk bloke: "can you play the rolling stones?"
me: "it's always a pleasure, but i already did"
drunk bloke: "nah ya didn't. what song?"
me: "monkey man, it's on let it bleed"
drunk bloke: "but that's a beatles album!"

what the?

we've got not gigs lined up...but we are doing some crazy recordings and research into a radio show. all class, us.

THE VINYL VENDETTAS GET BUSTED!!

2005-10-12T18:16:00.000Z

JUMP, JUMP...EVERYBODY SAY....

we had the pleasure of dj'ing at the reading festival in august...we played sets in between bands on the radio one/nme stage. we glammed up & made friends with all the security guards. beth announced bands from the stage in her sassy way, and laura triumphed in her sound-clash with steve lamacq (by following his libertines song with the fall's "mister pharmacist"!). i didn't do anything particularly amazing, other than asking someone to use my digital camera to take a picture of us with Charlie from BUSTED!

but now i can't even upload the friggin thing!

waaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!

next year: the vinyl vendettas get their picture taken with cocaine kate.

stay dancin..
the vv's.
x