BLOOD OF THE BULL

Like we mentioned in our previous post, our guitarist Hillary has her own personal musical project called BLOOD OF THE BULL.
Her music is really melodic, simple but not simplistic, and has a dark, brooding sense of foreboding bubbling just under the surface. To these ears she follows in the lineage of people like Mary Timony/Helium, Lois, The Spinanes and Heavens To Betsy, recalling the early days of the Kill Rock Stars and K record labels. It's great stuff!

The debut Blood Of The Bull ep has just been released on WINNING SPERM PARTY and is available to download for free, so there's no reason to not have a listen! Rory, who plays drums in Blood Of The Bull, also plays in THE BALLAD OF MABLE WONG (alongside Laurie from ULTIMATE THURSH). They've also had their debut ep released on WSP too, so get that too!!
Hillary and Rory are playing tomorrow night at The Captains Rest in Glasgow (also on the bill are our label-mates LOUISE McVEY & CRACKS IN THE CONCRETE, who have just had their debut ep released on OPTIMO MUSIC) - they don't get the chance to play live so often, probably because we swallow up almost all of Hillary's time musically, so those of you who are able, you should make it down to the show!

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MISTLETOE AND GRIND

Have you noticed? It's Christmas.

To celebrate the day when we all get together and give each other things (and the day the pope got a doing) we've got some presents to offer you by way of FREE MUSIC.
Here's a live mp3 of "Death Of You" by Comanechi (featuring VSO, Andy and Sinead from Divorce = COMANECHIVORCE!!) live at their album launch from December 11th in London in all it's filthy, fetid glory!!! DOWNLOAD!!!
Also, don't forget you can still get the live bootleg of our set with Deerhoof from Edinburgh on December 8th at the Winning Sperm Party website -- GET IT HERE!!!
Winning Sperm Party have also unleashed FOUR NEW RELEASES TODAY!! Among them is the debut EP by BLOOD OF THE BULL, which is our guitarist Hillary's own personal musical project. Her own songs are minimal, melodic and brooding, sort of harking back to the early days of Kill Rock Stars/K Records (Lois, The Spinanes, Mary Timony etc), sung by Hillary herself. She's a talented lady!! As with all W.S.P. releases, they're available to download for ABSOLUTELY FREE!! GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL!!!
Hope you all got what you wanted and some of you got what you needed. See you at hogmanay!!!
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C O M A N E C H I V O R C E

When we went to London to play at Comanechi's album launch, Simon & Keex asked us if VSO & Andy would join them on bass & drums for their last few songs - here's some brutal footage of us doing 'My Pussy' and 'Death Of You' - it totally fucking SLAYS!!!!!
Comanechi are absolutely fucking amazing and their album is a work of ferocious, brutal genius!! BUY IT HERE!!!!


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DEATH OF THE DECADE

We're extremely honoured to have been asked by the esteemed Twitch & Wilkes of OPTIMO (ESPACIO) to perform at their epic Hogmanay party at The Fruitmarket in Glasgow!!
It's known as a fact that the Optimo Hogmanay party is BY FAR the most hedonistic, excessive and outright FUN night happening on the night in Glasgow, if not Scotland!! Amazing music, amazing people, amazing party!!!!!
They always put together excellent line-ups for each year too, with the 2009 edition is not looking shabby in the slightest. Sets from DRUMS OF DEATH, HUDSON MOHAWKE, THE NIALLIST and Optimo themselves will be bringing in the new year and new decade. Regarding the Scottish-centric line-up, Optimo themselves explain that "As we leave the 2000s, we felt that it was a good idea to celebrate some of the immense talent that has come out of our fine city in recent years and invite some of the best artists this city has produced to come and perform." High praise indeed, making it all the more flattering that we've been included on the bill!! We'll do our best to not ruin yr buzz too much...!!!
Buy tickets HERE and HERE!!! Facebook info is HERE

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FRIDAY NIGHT = LONDON WILL DIE

We play Comanechi's album launch show on Friday down at El Paso on Old Street in London. This gig will SLAY, no question!! Get yr tickets HERE!!!

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VSO vs. ARI UP

From 'The Stool Pigeon' this month:



This is why we love our VSO
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DECEMBERISM

After our rush of live shows over the last couple of months, we were planning to take December out to do domestic shit like pay bills, eat food and sleep in now and then - but we got these three offers for gigs in December that couldn't be passed up! You can't blame us, look what they are:::

On Tuesday December 8th we return FINALLY to Edinburgh, playing with none other that DEERHOOF!!!!
It's at The Bongo Club, Holyrood Rd - go HERE for ticket info etc!

Then on Friday December 11th we're heading back to London! This time playing withCOMANECHI!!! It's the launch nite of their long awaited (by us) album 'Crime Of Love' - it's gonna be MENTAL!!! It's gonna occur at El Paso, 350-354 Old Street, East London and tickets are a fiver in advance HERE - expect CARNAGE!!

Finally, on the final night of December, the final night of 2009 and the final night of the 'naughties' or whatever, we'll be playing at OPTIMO'S HOGMANAY PARTY at The Fruitmarket in Glasgow - woooooop!!!! Optimo have been awesome to us this year, releasing our debut EP in June, being hugely supportive in general and great friends, so this is a gonna be a BIG NIGHT for us & we're gonna make sure '09 ends in TOTAL FUCKIN CHAOS!!!! To get tickets go HERE or HERE!

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YOU MUST ATTEND!!!

FOOT VILLAGE are a ferocious four drummer juggernaut!! BEATS & SCREAMS with no need for amplification - no guitars, no electricity, just pure primal punk energy and rhythm!! Absolutely fucking immense!!!

PLUS!!
ULTIMATE THRUSH!!!!
BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI

It's gonna be our last Glasgow gig of 2009!! What an epic finale!!!

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:::CHARMICARMICAT:::

We've all known for AGES that Vickie had awesome taste in music, but now YOU CAN TOO!!
She's got a radio show on Glasgow Uni's Subcity radio station, it's called "Charmicarmicat" and it promotes itself as "an anti generic, sonic assault of ear bleeding, sharp edged, wrong angled Noise Rock, Spazz-core, Gore-core, Sludge Metal and Doom" - FUCKING YES!!!
You can listen to her badass show RIGHT HERE!!
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U P C O M I N G

We're really excited to announce our next couple of releases, which should be showing up in the first few months of 2010:::
1) a split tape with ULTIMATE THRUSH on MILK
2) a split 7" with COMANECHI on MEROK
Expect old classics, new floor fillers and mega-surprises!!
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HALLOWEEN

Our next show is the Halloween Noise Festival at The Flying Duck, on Renfield Lane in Glasgow.
It's gonna be absolutely ferocious, ear-bleeding guaranteed! And the line-up is amazing:::
SISTER IODINE
ULTIMATE THRUSH
BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI
STREETS OF RAGE
INTERNATIONAL NOISE CLUB
and us

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TOUR MEMORIES // EVIDENCE

A couple of weeks ago we spent 5 days going down and up England with our awesome friends (and the greatest touring buddies you could ever hope for) Ultimate Thrush. We had a total riot, seeing loads of old friends, meeting loads of new friends & playing some EPIC shows!!! It was real.

Click on Ross Thrush's bloody face to see our precious memories... (btw the photo album is on Facebook, but that ain't a problem for anyone these days, right?)

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RADIO DIVORCE

Last Saturday Andy & Hillary from our band were asked to talk a bunch of shite and pick loads of awesome records (but not ALL of them, eg Chumbawumba) on the 'She Said' radio show on Subcity in Glasgow.

You can hear the full thing HERE - it's the most entertaining two hours you'll hear in the next couple of hours.

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T O U R

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PART CHIMP

Tomorrow we're playing with PART CHIMP!!! We love noise and Part Chimp OWN NOISE. This is a big fucking deal.
Friday September 25th at Stereo, Renfield Lane, Glasgow
DOORS AT 7.30!! WE'RE ON AT 8!!

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THIS SUNDAY & THE FUTURE

THIS SUNDAY

We're playing at The Captains Rest in Glasgow with THE ERGON CAROUSEL - one of the most ferocious grindcore bands ever invented, members of whom used to play in Beecher and Narcosis & whose music is some of the fastest, spazziest, most aggressive and goddamn INSANE we've ever heard!!!! DIET PILLS are slower and groovier but no less filthy and intense, like a mess of Melvins/Flipper/Eyehategod-type sludge goodness, it's a big satisfying audio vomit!!! YUMMY. As well as all that we're getting to play again with the fucking EPIC HOLY MOUNTAIN!!! It's almost unfathomable how such off-the-scale volume and riffage can be produced by two such unassuming men, BUT IT DOES.

DOORS 8PM ||| DAMAGE 4 GUYS ___________________

THE FUTURE Things are kicking up a gear for us over the next two months - we're playing a shit-ton of gigs, both in Glasgow and down south as well, with some AMAZING bands too!! Here's how things are looking right now::::

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH - GLASGOW
THE 13TH NOTE w/
Teen Sheikhs, Ultimate Thrush and Golden Grrrls

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH - GLASGOW
STEREO w/ Part Chimp

THURSDAY OCTOBER 8TH - LEEDS
TBC w/ Ultimate Thrush and more tbc

FRIDAY OCTOBER 9TH - LONDON
UNIT 3XXX w/ Ultimate Thrush and Ice Sea Dead People

SATURDAY OCTOBER 10TH - BRIGHTON
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT w/ Ultimate Thrush, Wet Dog and La La Vasquez

SUNDAY OCTOBER 11TH - LONDON
CATCH w/ Ultimate Thrush and more tbc

MONDAY OCTOBER 12TH - MANCHESTER
TBC w/ Ultimate Thrush and more tbc

MONDAY OCTOBER 19TH - GLASGOW
STEREO w/ Crocodiles and Golden Grrrls (((BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE HERE)))

SATURDAY OCTOBER 31ST - GLASGOW
HALLOWEEN NOISE FEST at THE FLYING DUCK w/ Ultimate Thrush, Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, International Noise Club, Streets Of Rage and Sister Iodine

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10TH - GLASGOW
CCA w/ Foot Village and Blue Sabbath Black Fiji

That's it so far....!!

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S T A R T

I woke up today & decided to start a Divorce blog, before i'd even had my first cigarette. We're playing our first gig in London EVER this Saturday!! It's at the 'W R I T I N G' all-dayer, hosted by the awesome Club Milk & These People Are Squares - that's the poster down there - L@@K AT ALL THE AWESOME BANDS!!!!
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