A gig held at The Thunderbolt on Friday 28th July. The event starts at 19:30.
Called a cult legend by BBC Radio 6’s Tom Robinson and ‘a towering figure on the UK live scene’ (The Metro), John E Vistic is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and award-winning songwriter. Vistic's live set is a fireball of punk rock n roll fury and psychedelic mayhem, his five-piece band setting off a stratospheric wall of sound. As BBC’s Sam Bonham says, ‘Vistic doesn’t do things by halves…’.
His musical influences include The Jesus and Mary Chain, Marky Ramone, Jesus Lizard, PIL, Bauhaus, The Stooges, The Birthday Party, The Cramps, Sisters of Mercy, The Cosmic Psychos, Rocket from the Crypt and The Beasts of Bourbon as well as contemporary acts like Idles, Metz and Fontaines DC. Lyrically Vistic’s literary background come to the fore – Shakespeare stalks TS Eliot, Yeats and Pound, Oscar Wilde duals with Malcolm Lowry, and Martin Amis jostles Houllebecq and Harari. October 2020 saw the release of his last album ’Under the Volcano', (a ref to the infamous novel by Lowry) via Deafendling Records, recorded with producer Tom Hackwell (Plainviews, Erotic Secrets of Pompeii etc.) at Bristol’s Coach House Studios. Artwork for the album (as with Das Ubermensch) was by the legendary Johnny Stingray (Urban Voodoo Machine etc). The new album has been described as: 'filthy' by Damien of Mclusky/St.Pierre Snake Invasion fame and as opening track ‘Sublime Architecture Of Life’ explodes into life and hooks into your skin with its “we’re all in this together” refrain, ‘filthy’ is certainly an apt way to describe the cutting grooves and fuzzed out attitude on display.
PLUS SUPPORT FROM WITCH HOOK (intense queer goth punk) and LEATHERS, plus DJ HEIDI HEELZ
Entry requirements:
His musical influences include The Jesus and Mary Chain, Marky Ramone, Jesus Lizard, PIL, Bauhaus, The Stooges, The Birthday Party, The Cramps, Sisters of Mercy, The Cosmic Psychos, Rocket from the Crypt and The Beasts of Bourbon as well as contemporary acts like Idles, Metz and Fontaines DC. Lyrically Vistic’s literary background come to the fore – Shakespeare stalks TS Eliot, Yeats and Pound, Oscar Wilde duals with Malcolm Lowry, and Martin Amis jostles Houllebecq and Harari. October 2020 saw the release of his last album ’Under the Volcano', (a ref to the infamous novel by Lowry) via Deafendling Records, recorded with producer Tom Hackwell (Plainviews, Erotic Secrets of Pompeii etc.) at Bristol’s Coach House Studios. Artwork for the album (as with Das Ubermensch) was by the legendary Johnny Stingray (Urban Voodoo Machine etc). The new album has been described as: 'filthy' by Damien of Mclusky/St.Pierre Snake Invasion fame and as opening track ‘Sublime Architecture Of Life’ explodes into life and hooks into your skin with its “we’re all in this together” refrain, ‘filthy’ is certainly an apt way to describe the cutting grooves and fuzzed out attitude on display.
PLUS SUPPORT FROM WITCH HOOK (intense queer goth punk) and LEATHERS, plus DJ HEIDI HEELZ
Entry requirements:
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