La La Vasquez

Vivian Girls,Beast Coast and Dum Dum Girls are all female fronted sun soaked sounds of America. You would think the same of all female three-piece La La Vasquez but your wrong. They sound like Young Marble giants, Talulah Gosh and early Beat Happening so you have to take note. It resonates that British sound, dreary with a glimmer of hope for the sun to shine. Take a listen 

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Christopher Wayne Illustrator

When we ask for people to create a poster for Out of step we always get excited with what comes back from the artist.

Christopher Wayne not only has a great taste in music but a talent as an eye catching illustator and he's only a first year studying down in London.

He created the La La Vasquez poster for us and it made a few heads turn but the gig was cancelled so the beautiful poster was never to be used.

Now Christopher has created something truly out of step with the this world for April 26th show with Fever Fever and Decadence In Berlin.

Have a look at he's blog HERE

OUT OF STEP ZINE No2

With the cover created by the brilliant Bethan McKnight,here it is out of step zine number two.

It has inside it's photocopied pages interview's with Hot Club De Paris,ATTA Girl Dj and organiser Claire G,La La Vasquez interview and much more all for free.

You can find the zine from the 18th March at the following

Wolverhampton

We Create Shop (Victoria st)

Alchemy bar

Oldies ULTD

One way music shop

SAD building (Uni)

Light House Chub Building

Birmingham

Victoria Pub

Sunflower Lounge

Swordfish records

Island Bar

Yellow Vintage shop (Digbeth way)

email for a delivered copy at a fee of £1.50 for postage

Q AND A

Q AND A

With La La Vasquez

For people unaware of you how would you describe the sound of La La Vasquez?
It's always a bit difficult describing your own sound as we don't try to sound a particular way, it's just the product of the three of us working together. You would have to listen to us to know what we sound like, but i guess for the sake of the interview we sound a bit fuzzy, a bit post-punk, a bit 60s garage. I have also been told that we sound slightly haunting, which i think is pretty cool. We are also labelled 'DIY' but we cant hep being 'DIY' or whatever as we are 'Doing It' ourselves it, isn't contrived or forced it wasn't a decision, we just do what we do....

There’s not much info at present about yourselves, could you tell us how you all meet, how it all came about and also where the name came from? Well we are great, that is all you need to know. joke. We met in Brighton, we met through friends/boyfriends going to gigs and we just thought it would be fun to hang out more and forming a band would make it almost compulsory. Band practices at the beginning used to consist of a lot of booze.. party vibes. Now I guess we actually want to try and be half decent so we spend band practice writing. We are named after the American WAG La La Vasquez, she is engaged to a basketball player (i think). We made a joke of our boyfriends being in bands together. It's also pretty funny seeing people try to pronounce it. For the record it's 'Vas-Kez'.

I read on your myspace you’re big fans of L7 what other influences do La La Vasquez have?yea, that is a quote, we never said that, but L7 are cool. I guess girl punk in general is an influence for us, especially in the inspirational sense. I think people think that we are influenced by what we sound like, but we do listen to other stuff too I mean who isn't a fan of The Ramones, The Black Lips, Ariel Pink, The Misfits etc. I mean we can't change the fact that we have girl voices and therefore sound like other girl bands.

You're just about to go on tour with ‘Girls names’ and a great band to. How have you found the life of being in a band and on tour treating you so far? Well tour hasn't started yet, so we will have to wait and see what that is like. I really don't think they know what they are letting themselves in for.. going on tour with us! ha We have done a mini tour with T.I.T.S before and that was so much fun. We are also going on a UK & EU tour in June with another band that we LOVE it's important to like the band that you are going away with. A band that wants to ride the party train!

At the moment there seems to be this great scene springing up with-in the London and Brighton area that could rival that of L.A’s the Smell with bands such as Pens, Graffiti Island ,Male Bonding etc how do you guy’s feel about being part of that community? I don't think there is any rivalry between LA and London/Brighton. I like to think that if there was no sea we would be hanging out. It's nice to play with bands that you like, everyone is very supportive and we are good friends with them.

The last zine we asked “What are the three records that changed or inspired your life?” What are your three? Ok let's have one each:

Rachael: Francines list - by Pink Section, Turn him down - by The Cupons, .Marin - by Inflatable Boy Clams.

Merida: Hole - Live Through This, Kleenex/LiliPUT

Freya: This is blatant cheating but i would have to say the rough trade Post-Punk Compilation.

Cheers speak soon

Rich

La La Vasquez

We featured a few week's ago the curent London scene that is springing up with band's such as Male Bonding and Graffiti Island and how it could rival that of L.A's the Smell.

Another band well worth your attention are La La Vasquez. A all girl lo-fi punk band,they remind me of Young Marble Giants meet's The Shangri-Las with haunting guitar shoe-gaze and a great harmonies from what we have heard so far from the myspace.

Just go scope the myspace

La La Vasquez will be playing 26th April at Out Of Step

Upsetting the rhythm

After trying my hardest to book band's over the end of the year i kept on stumbling across band's based in London with connections to the label Art Fag.

Currently their seems to be a really rich and healthy punk ethic scene going on down there that could rival that of L.A's the Smell.

Band's such as PENS,Graffiti Island,Teen Sheikhs,La La Vasquez and many more if you go on anyone of the band's mentioned myspace and scope out their friend's list.

Trust me majority of them are all really good.

The one band that i am interested in is Male Bonding at the moment. There like G.B.H meets Abe Vigoda just simple straight up punk.

No doubt pretty soon the Vice reading heads will bum them to death if they already haven't.

Catch em if they play near you!

BLURB FROM SUBPOP

"Made up of Robin Silas Christian (drums), John Arthur Webb (guitar & vocals) and Kevin Hendrick (bass and vocals), and rising from a flourishing DIY scene in their adopted hometown of Dalston, London, Male Bonding became a very real thing in May, 2008, with their first show, at an insane house party called “RAGE!” Male Bonding was born raging and it’s been non-stop ever since. That party evolved in to a split 7” release withPENS on Male Bonding’s own label Paradise Vendors Inc. (which sold out in a week). To date, Male Bonding has dispatched seven releases including a Flipper tribute 7” (on Domino Records) alongside PPM Allstars, Lovvers and Ponytail. The band has toured the UK with Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls and played shows with Lovvers, HEALTH, Fucked Up, Graffiti Island, Mika Miko, These are Powers, NISENNENMONDAI, Magik Markers, and Finally Punk among others. We are excited by, about and for Male Bonding. You should be too."

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