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Heavy Pop presents Vienna Ditto - Flat Earth Album Launch

- Vienna Ditto -

"Portishead doing a Tarantino soundtrack" - Huw Stephens, Radio 1
"a snarling, glitter stomping synth-soul-rockabilly racket ... a thing of absolute wonder." - Nightshift Magazine

Stalwarts of the UK DIY music scene for over 10 years and much loved by Radio 1's Huw Stephens, Vienna Ditto are back, finally promoting the album that nearly broke them. Written and recorded in 2014-16, Flat Earth is a bleak, dystopian vision of the future that has almost entirely come true.

Well, at least it's nice to be relevant.

Following a successful crowdfunding campaign, the band split, leaving the album unreleased. However, we persuaded them to get back together for a one-off appearance at the 2019 Down at the Abbey Festival and, although they're going to be mainly based on Patreon from now on, they'll be doing a couple of live gigs to promote Flat Earth, due out in late March/early May- be sure to catch them now before they split up again!

About the band:

Vienna Ditto twist Blues, Gospel, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop and psychedelia into a dark, electronic rock 'n' roll cocktail of their own creation, with primitive synths and Nigel's echoey surf guitar offsetting Hatty's haunted vocals. Their oft-demented live shows hotwire the sound, creating a vibe akin to prayer revival meeting at a squat rave.

- The Pink Diamond Revue -
https://youtu.be/q-p2VSHqZP0

"It sounds like Dick Dale, Kraftwerk and Ministry dropped a bunch of mushrooms together and invented Death In Vegas twenty years too early. It?s simple, highly effective and brilliantly hypnotic." Nightshift

The Pink Diamond Revue are a 3 Piece Electro/ Dance/ Psych band fronted by Acid Dol, a model from another dimension.

The bands live shows have had many different comparisons but most mention the bands ability to combine their music with the visual images they display behind them, to produce a show with a massive crossover appeal.

- The Keep Cats -
?one of the most exciting bands playing right now.? Explore Reading

This indie/post-punk 4-piece were recently name-checked by Reading darlings, The Amazons, as ones to watch.

Following the release of three singles last year, the guys are also firmly on the radar of BBC Introducing and John Kennedy, with both BBC and Radio X radio plays.

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21 South Street,

Reading,

Berkshire,

England,

RG1 4QU.