Vitabeats | Musician/band
Vitabeats
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24.01.2022 Swoops down from America.
24.01.2022 Pioneers Reunion Concert at The Distillery 2013 Andrew & Lissa with Michael Galeazzi on bass, Michael Quigley drums, and Neil Barnett on Keys and guitars. A welcome return to meet the new kids.
23.01.2022 Revisit the amazing voice of Lissa Barnum here for the world: https://spoti.fi/2s0qp4U
23.01.2022 Turning back time in a moment of reflection. Photos by Peter Carrette (Spanners) Anon (frame live Hip Hop Club) Paul Nicola (Audrey clip) Bob Baxter (Mex 90s)
21.01.2022 Shout out to Andrew Clarke Breakfast On Tyga-Fm in Tasmania for playing 'One world rhythm' and 'Nothing more than this.' Cheers! Listen on Spotify too: https://spoti.fi/2s0qp4U Marshall John Cullen
18.01.2022 Vitabeats: Hear Spot the Spanner album on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/album/79hblTsgdKdaMutDjiFpwe
16.01.2022 Beautiful Lissa Barnum sings live on SBS-TVs 'Eat Carpet.' 'Slice of life' is an unrelaesed Vitabeats track. https://youtu.be/7bMPwXor_vo
15.01.2022 Merry Xmas from Andrew, Lissa and Cayenne!
14.01.2022 Good times for Andrew & Lissa. Arrived in Sydney, returning from Los Angeles to live by Easter 1982. Little did we know what was to come. Thanks goes to Tony Wong Hee for delivering our 'Live Nude Girl' demos (our post-punk art band) to producer Mark Moffatt at Festival Records in Pyrmont. This led to our first single 'Tough Guy/Tokyo' released in February 1993 https://youtu.be/6mhObG3q0aY with the help of Sam McNally on keyboards, drum machine and his Rose Bay front room.
10.01.2022 Great to be playing our songs at the Carmel For Gilmore launch at The Dish And The Spoon Cafe Go Greens In Gilmore. Vote for change!
08.01.2022 Vitabeats Spot the Spanner. Review of track 'Savages' by author Michael Faber: 'This is still a superb piece in my opinion. Indeed I would go so far as to say that it's one of the high points of 1980s Australian music. If Vitabeats had managed to create only this one track and nothing else, they would still have earned a place of distinction in music history. 'Savages' is a quite an extraordinary synthesis of styles, but rather than being a messy mixture, it carries itself ...with absolute confidence and (uniquely for the material on this LP) a sense of dangerous potency. I don't know you felt when you made it, or how you feel about it now, but from where I sit, I get the impression of a band who've brought something into existence that's bigger than they are, something that could turn round and stomp on them. Does that sound too fanciful? If so, just take it as my way of telling you that this piece still thrills me after all these years and after all the thousands of pieces of great music I've heard since then. It occupies a stylistic intersection of funk, reggae, rock, electronica and pop, never losing its poise, never going too far in any of those directions but maintaining the fusion. Every aspect of it is chosen & developed with clarity of purpose. Michel Faber (Author: The Crimson Petal and the White, Vanilla Bright like Eminem, The Fire Gospel (The Myths) Patrick Campbell
04.01.2022 Vale Andrew ‘Greedy’ Smith. And thanks @markmordue for some great Mentals context. Greedy’s passing sends a shiver through the Aus music firmament. A dearly loved frontman of a very influential, and cherished Sydney art school-band. Vitabeats did one support with them at Doyalson RSL (proud memory). Mental as Anything freed up an expressive space for an Australian identity that paved the way for everyone.
01.01.2022 Barnum Family are singing live for change. https://www.facebook.com/events/637370016730121/?ti=ia
01.01.2022 The Vitabeats family (Andrew Barnum with Lissa & Cayenne) will be performing in the Shoalhaven Saturday Feb 23rd. Get your tix here: https://events.humanitix.com.au/local-stories-at-dusk
