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Forthcoming Shows:

A great show this Friday as The Barracudas and The Surfin’ Lungs return to the Dirty Water Club, aided and abetted by members of Venus Ray and The Scoundrelles.
The show is being filmed for a forthcoming DVD, so let’s hope they can find the stage...

The Barracudas
+ The Surfin’ Lungs
Friday 21st May
Dirty Water Club at the Boston, 178 Junction Road, London N19 5QQ opposite Tufnell Park tube.
Bands til midnight, DJs til 3am. £6 or £5 with flyer http://www.dirtywaterclub.com

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Vic Goddard and Subway Sect + Venus Ray
Saturday June 5th
The Borderline, Orange Yard, off Manette St, W1
Admission £7.00 Advance Tickets from the Borderline ( 020 7534 6970) , Ticketmaster, or at The Astoria box office

The band have been busy recording in a dingy North London studio, laying down a Herculean 35 tracks in 3 days. The resulting material is now at the Negative Sonic Laboratory being processed into the next VR release.

The most recent Venus Ray album The World Woke Up Without Me was released on April 21st 2003. You can order it now direct from Negative Records for the special UK on-line price of £9.99 inc P&P (a little more for the rest of the World). Click here to order this and other Negative titles.

Tony and Diggory can be heard as half of The Scoundrelles on the acclaimed compilation album The Sympathetic Sounds of Toe Rag recorded by Liam Watson on the all-conquering Sympathy For The Record Industry label. The Scoundrelles album is finished, and should be released early next year. For more info visit www.scoundrelles.com

Barney has been working on music for the upcoming BBC film Brenin. Based on research into the theory of Elvis Presley's Welsh ancestry, it explores an imaginary cult of the King in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire.

The last single Hurricane was released on very limited clear square vinyl in February, but has now sold out. Sorry to all those unable to snap one up.

A tribute page to the much-missed Steve Smith is now on-line, along with a guestbook where you can post messages and memories. Click here to visit.


The World Woke Up Without Me - A track by track rundown of the 2nd album, plus reviews and press release

Chuck Berry vs IBM - Commentary on the 1st album, along with press and radio reactions

Who are Venus Ray? - For some basic background stuff

Discography - Details of all Venus Ray releases to date

Audio - Featuring daily selections from the Venus Ray Reel-to-Reel

Links - A few of our favourite urls

To order Venus Ray releases online, go to www.negativerecords.co.uk

Contacts

To contact the band or join the Venus Ray mailing list, email info@venusray.co.uk, or info@negativerecords.co.uk

For press and promotional information, contact Ken or Pam at Hermana PR on +44(0)20 7733 8009, or email pam@hermana.co.uk

Write to Venus Ray, c/o Negative Records, 27 Wolsey Road, London N1 4QG, UK

last updated 17.10.03