Multi-instrumentalist & award-winning London born (Raised in Australia) Bristol dwelling songwriter John E Vistic plays a unique brand of punk, rock n roll & alt country, described as ‘filthy’ by Damien of Mclusky/St.Pierre Snake Invasion. Musical influences include The Jesus & Mary Chain, Marky Ramone, Jesus Lizard, PIL, Bauhaus, Stooges, The Birthday Party, The Cramps, Sisters of Mercy, The Cosmic Psychos, as well as contemporary acts Idles, Metz & Fontaines DC.
Humanz are Bastardz is a raw, visceral & vicious aural attack, with an existentialist theme taking inspiration from novelists Jared Diamond – ‘Gunz Germs & steel‘, Mikhailovich Dostoevsky – ‘Crime and Punishment’ (With added reference to ChatGpt /the Terminator movies) Karl Ove Knausgård – ‘Every purpose under heaven‘ & Ian Dury (There ain’t half been some clever bastards) – ‘Humanz are Bastardz’. It follows the 2021 album ‘Under the Volcano‘ (A ref to the infamous novel by Lowry) & recent singles ‘Das Ubermensch‘ & ‘Spiderz‘, that received airplay on the BBC, Kerrang and many others.
No stranger to the big stage, as well as appearances at Rebellion/Camp Bestival/Glastonbury & Latitude festivals, Vistic has shared the stage with the likes of Mudhoney, The Sonics, Alabama 3, The Jim Jones Revue, and The Urban Voodoo Machine, ‘A Vistic live show is sweaty, it’s loud, it’s intoxicating..an irresistible, unstoppable, larger than life force of nature..Vistic doesn’t do things by halves’ BBC Introducing Bristol.
Live dates:
4th NOV at Duffy’s Bar, Leicester
11th NOV at Red Lion, 206 Whitehall Rd Bristol – EP launch show with Droogs, Birdman Cult, and The Brizingtones
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