Date: 12 / 12 / 04

Kevin Coyne
The death of Kevin Coyne is a huge blow to generations of music fans, from John Peel to Johnny Rotten. England`s answer to Captain Beefheart was also a successful author and painter, and even turned down the offer of replacing Jim Morrison in the Doors. Kevin was the father of singer Eugene Coyne and Venus Ray`s Robert Coyne, who also played together as Silver Chapter and Mean Vincent. Rob toured regularly with his father, and co-wrote and performed on all his recent albums.

Date: 12 / 12 / 04

Kevin Coyne
The death of Kevin Coyne is a huge blow to generations of music fans, from John Peel to Johnny Rotten. England`s answer to Captain Beefheart was also a successful author and painter, and even turned down the offer of replacing Jim Morrison in the Doors. Kevin was the father of singer Eugene Coyne and Venus Ray`s Robert Coyne, who also played together as Silver Chapter and Mean Vincent. Rob toured regularly with his father, and co-wrote and performed on all his recent albums.

Date: 6 / 8 / 04

Hold the virtual front page!
Our friends at the Dirty Water Club have swiftly arranged another show for Sky Saxon this Friday, whilst members of Venus Ray and The Scoundrelles reincarnate The Seeds behind him. They’re also recording an album together for release early next year.

Anyone who saw Monday’s show will know to expect a mixture of awesome hits and floundering misses, but when it hits it’ll certainly be spectacular. Or, like Sky, you could drop some acid and it’ll all be transcendent.

Plus another top recommendation for your tired ears, and the ‘Cudas film at Portobello Film Festival.

Friday 6th August
Sky Saxon and Friends
+ The Punkles (The entire Beatles repertoire as performed by The Ramones, apparently)
Dirty Water Club at the Boston Arms, 178 Junction Road, London N19 5QQ opposite Tufnell Park tube. Bands til midnight, DJs til 3am. £6.00

Date: 4 / 7 / 04

Saturday, July 24 at 7:00 PM
Penny Black Music presents Penny Black Music Night featuring Glen Matlock / Venus Ray / Televise
at THE SPITZ: 109 Commercial St. Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 6BG
Tickets £8 on the door or £6 in advance from Ticketweb on 08700 600 100 or online at www.ticketweb.co.uk

Date: 21 / 5 / 2004

Saturday June 5th

Vic Goddard and Subway Sect + Venus Ray
The Borderline
Orange Yard, off Manette St, W1
Admission £7.00 Advance Tickets from the Borderline: 020 7534 6970
www.borderline.co.uk , Ticketmaster, or at The Astoria box office

“Ridiculously underrated London pop-rock combo the Ray kick out deliciously droney space-garage-pop, flavored with a touch of dubby synthedelia for that little something extra.”
Well Hung At Dawn, Rolling Stone

Date: 21 / 5 / 2004

A great show this Friday as The Barracudas and The Surfin’ Lungs return to the Dirty Water Club, aided and abetted by members of Venus Ray and The Scoundrelles.
The show is being filmed for a forthcoming DVD, so let’s hope they can find the stage...

The Barracudas
+ The Surfin’ Lungs
Friday 21st May
Dirty Water Club at the Boston, 178 Junction Road, London N19 5QQ opposite Tufnell Park tube.
Bands til midnight, DJs til 3am. £6 or £5 with flyer http://www.dirtywaterclub.com

Date: 28 / 4 / 2004

Tuesday 11th May

Venus Ray and Bikini Atoll play The Comedy in Piccadilly 7 Oxendon Street, Piccadilly, London SW1Y 4EE

Enquiries: 020 7839 7261 Box Office: 020 7839 7261 A Pennyblack Music presentation. www.indiemusic.co.uk Tickets £t.b.c.

And on Friday tickets go on sale at the Royal Festival Hall for an intriguing but probably misguided reincarnation of the New York Dolls, and (perhaps a safer bet) an evening of film, including the legendary Lipstick Killers and an unseen Dolls documentary.
Call 08703 808 300 or book at www.rfh.org.uk

Date: 5 / 3 / 2004

Monday 8th March

"Channelling From 6th Density Realm-Border Crossing"
The Pleiadians
The Bonnington Centre, 11 Vauxhall Grove, SW8 from 8pm

The Pleiadians are:
Horst N.
P.D. Ouspensky
Nosmo Finlandia

Augmentation: Yamaha PSS 6th Density Tone Transducer/ Roland Virtual Studio 1680/ Electronic Drum Magnetotronic Loop System/Shem Conductor.

Date: 4 / 2 / 2004

A great night in store this Saturday as Venus Ray join Vic Godard and Subway Sect under the wings of PennyBlack Music. With the irreplaceable Barney Oliver on an extended walkabout in the Australian outback, the show will mark the Venus Ray debuts of newcomers Jake Tassell on toy organ, sartorials and electronics and Gavin Mulcahy on the bass guitar. Venus Ray will be unveiling songs from their forthcoming 3rd album, due out in August.

The Spitz is a great venue with restaurant and art gallery, 5 mins from Liverpool St and Brick Lane’s finest eateries. Should be fine just turning up on the door, but it seems you can reserve tickets by calling Spitz Box Office and pay for them when you pick em up on the night. More details below.


THE SPITZ. 109 COMMERCIAL ST. OLD SPITALFIELDS MARKET. LONDON. E1 6BG
www.spitz.co.uk/venue.htm
Spitz Info & Box office 020 7392 9032
Call Way Ahead (24hr ticket line) 0871 22 00 260 or visit their site
The Spitz is situated on the edge of Old Spitalfields Market
Nearest Tubes: Liverpool Street & Aldgate East.
Doors open at 7pm. Admission £5 First band on at 7:15.

Vic Godard's leading position in the Subway Sect placed him squarely in the eye of the storm of the emerging punk scene back in 1976, working with the likes of now legendary manager Malcolm MacLaren and sharing stages with The Clash, The Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks. Subsequent years saw him turn to Northern Soul, swing, beatnik jazz and rockabilly.
If NASA found a garage on the moon, Venus Ray are the band who would be playing inside. Their second album The World Woke Up Without Me took their garage-rocking, Joe Meek-style soundclash into previously uncharted territory. “Venus Ray rock like Clinic with a youthful Lou Reed on vocals” NME.

Date: 4 / 1 / 2004

The band have been busy recording in a dingy North London studio, laying down a Herculean 35 tracks in 3 days. The resulting material is now at the Negative Sonic Laboratory being processed into the next VR release.