On 20 February 2009, Violent Soho announced on their MySpace page that they had signed an “overwhelmingly exciting” deal with Ecstatic Peace! Records , a record company headed by Sonic Youth ‘s Thurston Moore , a hero of the band. They also signaled their intention to spend much of 2009…
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In mid-2009, the band recorded their self-titled second album with producer Gil Norton at Rockfield Studios in Wales . Moore presented the band with several options, including Butch Vig and John Agnello , but the band selected Norton as they wanted someone who would be “a bit pushy”. After a…
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Violent Soho toured with Faker and Grafton Primary in May 2008, playing songs from their first full-length album, We Don’t Belong Here . The album was released on 7 June 2008 on the Emergency Music label, an independent imprint run by Turmer’s band Magic Dirt , who were also friends…
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The band members all attended Citipointe Christian College in Mansfield together, and as of 2008 continued to reside there. The postcode of the suburb, “4122”, appears in the band’s merchandise artwork and frequently appears in band-related images.
Their debut EP, Pigs & T.V. , was released in 2006. Consisting of songs written by Boerdam at 14 years of age, the recording was funded by the sale of Tidswell’s car. The EP was produced by Bryce Moorhead, a Brisbane-based producer and sound engineer who the band discovered through…
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We grew up going to Big Days Out on the Gold Coast… Luke [Boerdam] bought a ticket when he was 16 and his parents wouldn’t let him go so he pegged a cereal bowl at the wall and said “Fuck you”, ran away and went to Big Day Out. I…
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