{"id":13236,"date":"2020-09-03T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13236"},"modified":"2020-09-02T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T12:33:36","slug":"vice-squad-announce-new-album-battle-of-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13236","title":{"rendered":"Vice Squad announce new album ‘Battle Of Britain’"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK punk rock band,\u00a0VICE SQUAD<\/strong>\u00a0featuring legendary Punk Vocalist and writer\u00a0BEKI BONDAGE<\/strong>, have announced the release of their new album “Battle of Britain<\/strong>“, out on\u00a0October 16h, 2020<\/strong>\u00a0via\u00a0LAST ROCKER RECORDS<\/strong>\/CARGO RECORDS<\/strong>. The album will be available digital, on CD and\u00a0limited 250<\/strong>\u00a0copies on\u00a0white vinyl<\/strong>\u00a0\/\u00a0250<\/strong>\u00a0copies on\u00a0black vinyl<\/strong>\u00a0can be pre-ordered:\u00a0Here<\/a><\/p>\n

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The first rule of Punk is there are no rules and\u00a0VICE SQUAD<\/strong>\u00a0ably illustrate this with \u2018Battle of Britain<\/strong>\u2019. Written, Recorded and Mixed by\u00a0Beki Bond<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Paul Rooney<\/strong>\u00a0in their home studio. The 13 track album opens with the blistering \u2018Ruination<\/strong>\u2019 which cuts through the bullshit of small time promoters and blaggers with consummate swagger and melody while \u2018I Dare To Breathe<\/strong>\u2019 is an amphetamine driven anthem to paranoia. \u2018When You Were 17<\/strong>\u2019 is almost-tender and tells of first tattoos and under age booze whilst the more chilling \u2018Ignored To Death<\/strong>\u2019 rails against isolation and homelessness.<\/p>\n

The explosive \u2018Born In A War<\/strong>\u2019 rages along like a missile ravaging a third world country and warns \u2018See how they treat refugees? That\u2019s how they\u2019ll treat you and me\u2019. Elgar\u2019s \u2018Nimrod<\/strong>\u2019 reworked with a pulsating industrial bass segues into title track, ‘Battle Of Britain<\/strong>‘ where\u00a0Beki<\/strong>‘s vocals soar like a Spitfire over the crunching de-tuned riff and spit fury over the hypocrisy of putting war memorials before people.<\/p>\n

The dystopian \u2018Poverty Face<\/strong>\u2019 hits you with the opening line \u2018Disinheriting the meek, slyly killing off the weak\u2019 and is counter balanced by the more upbeat \u2018How The Other Half Lives<\/strong>\u2019. \u2018No Evil<\/strong>\u2019 is a relentless attack on the normalisation of the suffering and death of billions of animals for the meat industry. Battle of Britain’s hard hitting collection of anger and riffage pulls no punches in covering topics from austerity and factory farming to the pernicious influence of the Mainstream Media – \u2018Led by lies lambs to the slaughter, tax exiles say who you vote for\u2019. Brexit, fake patriotism and cognitive dissonance all get a good kicking too.<\/p>\n

The penultimate track, ‘You Can\u2019t Fool All Of The People<\/strong>‘ mixes baritone guitar with violin and Celtic rhythms climaxing in an epic James Bondesque heavy guitar\/orchestral blend and breaks every rule in the Punk Police hand book whilst pleading for unity against a rigged political system. \u2018Pulling Teeth<\/strong>\u2019 with its ominous riff and hilariously frustrated lyrics \u2018Dithering jibbering solid as jam, is it fair I\u2019m both the woman and the man\u2019 closes the album in manic style.<\/p>\n

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VICE SQUAD<\/strong>\u00a0are a UK Punk Rock band who\u2019s first single releases included the classic \u2018Last Rockers\u2019 7\u201d in 1981. This was followed by the landmark albums \u2018No Cause For Concern\u2019 in the same year and \u2018Stand Strong Stand Proud\u2019 in 1982 which were both released on EMI.<\/p>\n

Since then\u00a0VICE SQUAD<\/strong>\u00a0have delivered short sharp songs with incisive political lyrics and a dash of humour spat out over a thunderous rhythm and machine gun Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll guitars. Their latest releases are the EPs ‘Born In A War’ and ‘Ignored To Death V2’ taken from the forthcoming album \u2018Battle of Britain\u2019 set for release on their own Last Rockers label in May 2020.<\/p>\n

The band have become 100% DIY since forming Last Rockers Records in 2009. In keeping with the DIY ethic the previous albums were recorded in the band\u2019s own \u2018Sci Fidelity\u2019 studio South London and the new album \u2018Battle of Britain\u2019 continues this with the band maintaining full artistic control with the benefit of global distribution via Cargo. Their last album \u2018 Cardboard Country\u2019 was launched on the back of a very successful Pledge campaign raising funds for the Shelter homeless charity in line with the album title which was inspired by ‘Cardboard City’, the name given to the settlement of homeless people living in cardboard boxes near London’s Waterloo station. Vice Squad is fronted by raucous voiced singer\/guitarist\u00a0Beki Bondage<\/strong>\u00a0who was famed for being a teenage champion of Animal rights long before the current popularity of veganism.<\/p>\n

VICE SQUAD<\/strong>\u2019s song \u2019Humane\u2019 was one of the first ever Animal Rights songs. Beki has been featured on the front cover of a number of influential music tabloids such at Melody Maker, NME, Sounds, Record Mirror and Smash Hits. After a hiatus, Beki formed a new version of Vice Squad in 1997 featuring longstanding members of her post VS outfit\u00a0The Bombshells<\/strong>\u00a0and they have released several quality albums of powerful punk songs that have been very well received across the world.\u00a0VICE SQUAD<\/strong>\u00a0are considered one of the most influential punk rock bands of all time, paving the way for other female Punk and Rock singers and influencing male performers such as\u00a0Dave Grohl<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0Nirvana<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Foo Fighters<\/strong>\u00a0fame who was introduced to\u00a0VICE SQUAD<\/strong>\u00a0via his sister\u2019s record collection.<\/p>\n

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UK punk rock band,\u00a0VICE SQUAD\u00a0featuring legendary Punk Vocalist and writer\u00a0BEKI BONDAGE, have announced the release of their new album “Battle of Britain“, out on\u00a0October 16h, 2020\u00a0via\u00a0LAST ROCKER RECORDS\/CARGO RECORDS. The album will be available digital, on CD and\u00a0limited 250\u00a0copies on\u00a0white vinyl\u00a0\/\u00a0250\u00a0copies on\u00a0black vinyl\u00a0can be pre-ordered:\u00a0Here The first rule of Punk is there are no rules […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5775,1500,3473],"class_list":["post-13236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-beki-bondage","tag-cargo-records","tag-vice-squad","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13240,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions\/13240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}