From: Tooting Broadway, London
United Kingdom
The Violet Pets are another of those bands for which the Devil has a penchant that may no longer be in existence. Their myspace site doesn't appear to have been touched for a couple of years and the photos on their Last.FM site all seem to date from around 2007.
The band are/were true to the original traditions of indie from back in the good old days of the Desperate Bicycles, Alternative TV and The Buzzcocks. Producing and distributing their records themselves in limited editions of 100. Usually for free.
If they have ceased to be then they leave behind a veritable treasure trove of amateurish, shambling indie-pop jangle that sounds like The Pastels rubbing The Vaselines all over themselves in a mod club.
Their one claim to fame is an, hopefully, apocryphal tale about them sending a CD in a jiffybag to Xfm's John Kennedy only to receive the same jiffybag back a few weeks later with the CD replaced by some actual poo! Obviously John Kennedy or one of his lackies isn't a great fan of shambling indie-pop more fool them!
Go Try
MP3 - The Violet Pets - No! No! I Can't Say No
MP3 - The Violet Pets - A Little Lost and Found
MP3 - The Violet Pets - Just Shy
These tracks are all linked direct from the Violet Pets Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright.
Go Visit
The Violet Pets - Myspace : Last.FM
For those of you who hanker for the days when music wasn't just another career choice for celebrity seeking non entities check out the brilliant Desperate Bicycles at Derekerdman.com.
If you like this you'll love The Violet Pets...
MP3 - The Vaselines - I Hate The 80s
MP3 - The Vaselines - Son of a Gun
These tracks are all linked direct from the SubPop Records website and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright.