Pretty Vicious - Are You Entertained

1. Who are these fresh faced buccaneers come to save the sinking ship of rock’n’roll?

 Pretty Vicious are an indie rock/punk band from Wales. They have been playing together since 2014. Are You Entertained (Oct’18) is a cynical re-release made in the hopes of drumming up interest in the band’s debut album due in 2019.

2. What kind of tune is Are You Entertained? 

Are You Entertained strives for urgent and angry punk rock and almost lands there. It's a day late and a dollar short in every department but worthy of a golf clap.

3. Who do Pretty Vicious sound like? 

Pretty Vicious are similar to The Manic Street Preachers, VANT, and The Struts. 


4. What have the cut and paste merchants said about Are You Entertained?

“Unapologetic, raw sound” – Born Music Online.

“A primal howl of a single, crackling with electrifying energy” – It’s All Indie.

“Another new anthem” – Discovered Magazine. 

5. Which bands influenced Pretty Vicious? 

Pretty Vicious are influenced by the Sex Pistols, Iggy and The Stooges, and The Bananas.

6. Why should I give Are You Entertained a listen? 

Because it hits an amusing sweet spot lying between the god-honest anger of punk bands like (early) Manic Street Preachers and the theatrics of cock-rockers like The Struts. 

7. What are Pretty Vicious' best songs? 

National Plastics and Cave Song.

8. Any more words?

Are You Entertained is produced by Dan Austin (Twin Atlantic, Maximo Park, You Me At Six).

The 30 Best Indie Rock Songs of 2016 (30 - 21)

No fucking about, here are the 30 best indie rock songs of 2016.

30. PUP - DVP 

PUP are a punk band from Toronto, Canada. They sound like The Bronx and Weezer. DVP (Feb'16) is the song you get seriously fucked up to pre-loading before a dangerous night on the town. A headbanging rush.

29. The Frights - Kids 

The Frights are a surf/garage band from San Diego, California. They sound like SWMRS and Wavves. Kids (Jan'16) is a scathing garage rocker with a poppy beat. Snarky fun.

28. CANVAS - Gold 

CANVAS are an electronic indie rock band from Toronto, Canada. They sound like E.L.O. and Cheap Trick. Gold (Jan'16) saunters along on one fat riff smelling of last nights whiskey and then turns soft and psychedelic. 

27. Beach Slang - Punks At A Disco Bar

Beach Slang are a punk band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They sound like Gaslight Anthem and Japandroids. Punks At A Disco Bar (July'16) is a punk anthem that enters on a guitar-only riff and then rolls along mid-tempo, all impassioned vocals but no fat or flourishes. 

26. Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life 

Japandroids are an indie rock band from Vancouver, Canada. They sound like Death From Above 1979 or Titus Andronicus. Near To The Wild Heart Of Life (Nov'16) is a passionate rock song that will get you fired up to pursue your dreams. 

25. Pretty Vicious - National Plastics 

Pretty Vicious are a punk band from Merthyr, Wales. They sound like early Manic Street Preachers and Oasis. National Plastics (Oct'15) is an incendiary ball breaker that rocks harder than a jailhouse rapist's erection. 

24. FIDLAR - Why Generation 

FIDLAR are a surf/garage punk band from Los Angeles, California. They sound like SWMRS and The Orwells. Why Generation (Feb'16) is a garage rocker and a mosh pit bone breaker with something to say. 

23. The Bay Rays - New House 

The Bay Rays are an indie rock'n'roll band from Tunbridge Wells, England. They sound like The Fratellis and The Vaccines. New House (June'16) is a barn burning rock'n'roller as infectious as a Thai hooker's taint at three in the morning. 

22. The Rifles - Wall Around Your Heart 

The Rifles are an indie rock band from London, England. They sound like The Vaccines and The Jam. Wall Around Your Heart (July'16) meshes elements of punk with modern refined songwriting and production to create passionate pop rock.

 
21. Beware Of Darkness - Dope 

Beware Of Darkness are an indie rock band from Santa Barbara, California. They sound like The Family Rain and The Arctic Monkeys. Dope (July'16) is a classic rock/bluesy stomper that sports riffs as sticky as two hobos fucking in a puddle of piss.

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Pretty Vicious

On the rare occasions I’m tempted to muse on the disappointing nature of a world that allows genocide in Burma or a six year civil war in Syria with 200 000 dead and a million refugees, my friend will punch me in the arm, with a knuckle extended, in an often successful attempt to give me a dead arm and this sage advice, “harden the fuck up.” National Plastics (Sept’15) is the musical equivalent of that dead arm. The tune only has one gear, fast and furious. This song took me back to the day in 1991 I put the needle down on The Manic Street Preacher’s first release “Motown Junk” and was blown away by the blistering assault that announced the arrival of one of the greatest rock and roll bands in the world at that minute. Both bands are from the Welsh valleys. Just saying. National Plastics is a song about grabbing life by the scruff of the neck and has been called a “...tour de force of incendiary, visceral and youthful guitar rock.”

 

 

Pretty Vicious are an indie punk rock band from Merthyr Tydfil in Wales and have played some big festivals like Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds. Pretty Vicious started in 2014 and are all 16 and 18 years old. National Plastics is their second single, the band have been signed up by Virgin EMI and are hot shit with people who matter everywhere. The band have been compared to The Clash (early doors), The Libertines and NME said Pretty Vicious sounded like Jake Bugg fronting the Arctic Monkeys with Sex Pistol's anarchic spirit. Pretty Vicious' influences are The Sex Pistols, Iggy and The Stooges and The Bananas. The band called National Plastics "a ball breaker" while others commonly throw around adjectives like "incendiary" and "visceral". National Plastics rocks harder than prison rape and is one of the best indie songs of 2015.
 

“Moping around
The time will come when you will see
That hangin' about don't bring no opportunities!”

 

 

Shit you need to know:

Pretty Vicious's music has been called by Clash magazine "...a series of indie punk anthems."

Amazing Radio felt the band are "...one of the hottest prospects in music at the moment."

The band say their influences are, "everything."

The band supported the Manic Street Preachers this year.

When the band signed to EMI they were given the original contracts the Sex Pistols signed and signed copies of Never Mind The Bollocks.
 

Pretty Vicious will take to the stage next week at The Brixton Academy in London with The Vaccines and Palma Violets. Good company to keep.

 Other Pretty Vicious songs that burn with righteous indignation are Cave Song , It's Always There and Are You Entertained.

 

 

 

Slippery seconds is from Welsh alternative rockers, and one of the greatest bands to walk the earth back in the day, The Manic Street Preachers. This is their finest Repeat (UK) (1992) from their never equalled first testament Generation Terrorists (1992).

“Repeat after me
Fuck queen and country”