INTERVIEW WITH BEKI BONDAGE
OF
VICE SQUAD

VICE SQUAD

Vice Squad are a female fronted UK Punk Rock band that delivers short sharp songs with incisive lyrics spat out over a thunderous rhythm and machine gun Rock ’n’ Roll guitars.

Source: vicesquad.co.uk (please visit Vice Squad Links for more information and history)

Mike: Welcome

Vice Squad – Beki: Hello

Mike: Where did you get the name for the band?

Vice Squad – Beki: I thought it up when I was at school, I thought the ‘Vice’ part was a bit risqué and the ‘Squad’ part suggested an army of Punks.

Mike: When made Vice Squad come about?

Vice Squad – Beki: Juvenile idiocy and the desire to make some noise.

Mike: How would you describe the band?

Vice Squad – Beki: The old recordings sound youthfully inept but quite uniquebecause we couldn’t play and sing properly. The band I toured with from the nineties onwards was faster, louder and more powerful, which is true of lots of other bands like Discharge and The Exploited too.

Mike: What inspires you?

Vice Squad – Beki: Injustice, the pure joy of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Defiance, Endurance.

Mike: What inspires your lyrics?

Vice Squad – Beki: The same as above, but also a desire to touch a nerve and clear my head. It’s satisfying to attack things I feel are wrong, especially things that I have little chance of changing.

Mike: What is your creative process like?

Vice Squad – Beki: It usually involves Paul (lead guitar) coming up with a riff and me writing some lyrics and a vocal melody and several arguments. He often thinks that what I think is the chorus is the verse and vice versa. All the stuff I wrote about from the safety of my bedroom in my parent’s house in the eighties has got even worse now so there’s plenty to write about. Once I left home and moved to London my writing came from a place of stark reality rather than safety so it’s more sincere than when I was writing from imagination.

Mike: Songs like “Humane” had such an impact on me and I would think so many others, how important is it for you to have impact in your lyrics?

Vice Squad – Beki: t’s extremely important, I rarely sing light weight lyrics.

Mike: It has been many years now did you envisage Vice Squad still going strong after so many years?

Vice Squad – Beki: I didn’t think about the following week let alone the long term future when I was a kid. I always wanted to sing and I’ve never embraced the ‘Normal’ life. The longer you do something the better you become , so you have to keep going.

Mike: Do you still enjoy performing as much as you used to and have they changed much?

Vice Squad – Beki: Experience means that gigs can both annoy me and enthral me a lot more than they did when I first started. A good stage with a great sound and an eager crowd is a joyful thing but a badly organised gig with a disinterested sound engineer and lazy promoter is best avoided. I’ve played toilets and stadiums, bigger isn’t necessarily better, it’s all about vibe and enthusiasm.

Mike: Any tours planned?

Vice Squad – Beki: No plans to tour right now

Mike: Is there anything you would advise the young 18-year-old Beki if you could?

Vice Squad – Beki: Yes: Wait.

Mike: Is there anything you would like to say to your fans?

Vice Squad – Beki: Yes, please visit us and support our music at vicesquad.co.uk (links below)

Mike: Thank you so much, Beki of the band Vice Squad for taking the time to answer our questions.

We all look forward to more great music from the band very soon.

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