The album title was inspired by the Kalle Lasn book Culture Jam . As Boerdam explained in a September 2013 online article, “From memory the term went something like this: ‘We sit around on couches, buying what we think makes us who we are, like a hungry ghost’. I looked…
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A video for the song “In The Aisle” was released on 16 July 2013. Directed by Tristan Houghton, the video documents a nude cyclist riding around Brisbane distributing flyers for an actual nude bike ride event. Tidswell and Boerdam explained in August 2013 that the video features Brisbane musician and…
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In April 2013, the band revealed via their Facebook account that they were in the process of recording their next full-length album. The album was produced by Moorhead, described by Boerdam as “Brisbane’s version of Steve Albini ” (Moorhead’s main form of employment is tree lopping ), and recorded at…
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Hungry Ghost was identified by the Faster Louder online publication as the fourth-best album of 2013. A reference is made to Faster Louder’ s September review of the album, in which it wrote that the “fingerprints of Shihad, Japandroids, Wavves, Bleeding Knees Club, Blink-182 and Children Collide” appear on the…
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In an interview with Tidswell and Boerdam at the 2013 Push Over event in Melbourne, Victoria, both members explained that they attended a religious youth group as children, while Boerdam was in a chapel band with drummer Richards. Tidswell revealed in 2014 that he is originally from New Zealand ,…
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The band then signed to the Melbourne -based Australian independent record label “I OH YOU” and released a new single called “Tinderbox” on 27 August 2012. In November 2012, an Australian tour coincided with the release of the double-single “Tinderbox”/”Neighbour Neighbour” and a music video was produced for “Neighbour Neighbour”.…
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Violent Soho performed at the 2011 Laneway Festival, followed by an Australian tour supporting Australian alternative rock band Jebediah in mid-2011. The band was then chosen by Les Savy Fav to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that the latter co-curated—together with Caribou and Battles—in December 2011 in…
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On 9 March 2010, Violent Soho released their second, self-titled album on Ecstatic Peace! that consisted of some reworked selections from We Don’t Belong Here . ” Jesus Stole My Girlfriend ” was the first single release from the album. The single was also re-recorded with new vocals by Boerdam…
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The band relocated to the US prior to the early 2010 release of Violent Soho and shared an apartment in the “poorer parts of Brooklyn” in New York City . However, due to a hectic touring schedule, the band was rarely at home and played five-to-six nights each week. While…
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Following the release of their debut EP, the band continued to play shows in and around Brisbane as well as several shows in Sydney , Melbourne and elsewhere on the east coast of Australia. During this period, Magic Dirt’s Dean Turner —who died in April 2009—commenced managing the band. Violent…
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