Sounds From The Junkshop #33 - Vent 414
"Am I the enemy? Is there a better me? You'd take one look and hope to god you'd say there ought to be..." - Vent 414 , Fixer (1996) It's amazing how when you hit your late teens/early twenties and the bands you cut your teeth listening to guitar music to have mostly fallen by the wayside that you'll suddenly see them resurfacing in new guises giving you a whole load of new groups to listen to. Well, for 5-10 years until the bands they were in to begin with reform obviously... I mentioned in the 3 Colours Red SFTJ column a few weeks ago how it was mostly their Wildhearts/Senseless Things lineage that drew me to them and the same is true of Vent 414 who featured legendary former Wonder Stuff frontman Miles Hunt and ex- Senseless Things bassist Morgan Nicholls. Also along for the ride were ex-Clash/Eat drummer Pete Howard and, very briefly at the beginning, ex-Cult guitarist Billy Duffy. So the term "supergroup" was definitely being bandied a...