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1.0 History

1.1 Formation, début release (2003-2007)

1.2 Future plans (2008-present)

2.0 Style and Influences

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Viva Machine are a welsh rock band who started out in 2003 under the name Ipsofacto before changing their name and reinventing themselves in 2006 under the name Viva Machine, and later in 2008 adding a second guitarist and synth player Justin Hendy. ^[1]

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History

Formation, début release (2003-2007)

The band released their first single "My Jet Set Radio" on December 4, 2006, which whilst limitedly available, gained a small amount of radio play through BBC Radio 1, as well as being exposed through ITV show The Guest List where the band performed "My Jet Set Radio", "Robot Bodyrox" and "Earthquakers and Love Shakers". ^[2]

Working with Future Of The Left and Duffy producer Richard Jackson the band worked throughout 2007 on tracks for their debut, recording 15 tracks for the album, and then working on around 20 b-sides. ^[3] ^[4] The band finished much of their album in mid-2008 and have since recorded further tracks for inclusion. Rough versions of some tracks that are believed to be on the album have appeared on the band's myspace page, including "Death Star Trucker", "Oxygen", "Futuristic Dracula", "Yo Ho" and "Robot Bodyrox". ^[5]

The band announced on that "Robotbodyrox" would be the first single from the bands album, the single will be available from November 9, 2008, along with track "Go! Go! Go!", the single will be limitedly available on vinyl at the bands shows. premièred also online on October 21st 2008. ^[6] Due to troubles with the bands distributor the release of "Robotbodyrox" has been pushed back to December 2008 on itunes and 7digital, however the band made tracks "Delirious" and "Mercenaries" available to download for free via myspace. "Robotbodyrox" became available on itunes on November 27, 2008, with the full release via Rocklouder Record coming on December 9. ^[7]

Future plans (2008-present)

In September 2008 the band announced the addition of Justin Hendy, stating on the bands myspace "we have one added member. He goes by the name of JUSTIN HENDY. Why? 'cause we can thats why. He makes our sound twice as massive, adds live guitars n' keyboards, freeing Chris up to fling himself off the stage" . ^[8] ^[9]

The band's debut album, Viva Machine, will be released on June 15 2009 by Rocklouder Records after they took a break from live shows so bassist Tom could finish his degree. They have also begun working on new material to perform live, which may eventually appear on a second album. The band will release the track "Earthquakers & Loveshakers" as a free download on June 8th to promote the album's release. ^[8] ^[11] ^[12] ^[13] ^[14] ^[15]

Style and Influences

In an interview with Rocklouder bassist Tom Stephens described the bands style, saying "I think the album is a pretty good reflection of the last year of our lives and all the song titles are part of that’s happened to us" , going onto say "I think we can write about what a lot of other people would write about, but we try to wrap it a different way. So many bands write literal lyrics that mean exactly what they say, whereas on something like ‘A Futuristic Dracula’ you wouldn’t really know what it’s about until you read it and work it out for yourself." . The band draw their influences from such bands as Clutch, Queens Of The Stone Age, Weezer, Jarcrew, Biffy Clyro, Radiohead and The Beach Boys. ^[15] ^[17]

Band members

During the bands song "Here Comes The Speed of Light" Tom formerly played synth whilst Chris plays bass guitar prior to the addition of Justin Hendy, who now plays keyboards, whist Tom and Chris stick to their regular positions on bass and vocals respectively