VENUS FLY TRAP live + SPECIAL GUESTS

VENUS FLY TRAP-DEJA VU re-collection plus rarities collection 1986-2026-release date 12th july 2026-chosen as it was the first gig at stax/northampton 12th july 1986.

Out on GLASS MODERN CD/DL 12th JULY 2026.

https://glassmodern.bandcamp.com/

To celebrate vft will be doing a special gig at the black prince in northampton on september 12th 2026 plus special guests to mark 40 YEARS.

"DEJA VU-happens due to a temporary glitch in the brains memory causing a new experience to feel like a familiar past memory"

TRACK LISTING

morphine-original version

catalyst

desolation railway

up there

rocket usa

cloud 9 lips

europa-12" mix

achilles heel

moscow menagerie-remix

see no evil

pulp sister

13 oclock

metropolis

sabotage

human fly

gemini löunge

vitesse

voodoo voodoo-attrition remix

control addicts

bebe

MARS the debut album...VFT were picked up by French label TUESDAY RECORDS(sub label of DANCETERIA)and the tracks were re-recorded as two 12” singles MORPHINE(1987) and DESOLATION RAILWAY(1988),both these tracks appear on the album MARS,which came out in 1989 on DANCETERIA.

PRESS-

“As dark as intelligent pop ever gets...is a rich concoction totally out of keeping with indie pop,but expected to compete on just such a farcical level.The bands compelling mixture of sublimely irritating lyrics and cutting guitar seen them snapped up.” MICK MERCER/MELODY MAKER 1988

“Gigging alongside the likes of JAZZ BUTCHER,CHILLS,TOM VERLAINE and the MISSION.Dark vocals,schizophrenic guitar bass lines entrap you in psychedelia and grate you with feedback.”HOUSE OF DOLLS-1988

“Venus in furs ? Heroin ? I quite happily attribute this quartet with a wry sense of humour...a feedback assisted,rigidly execeuted rock manoeuvre.”SOUNDS-1988

“Box clever here,a hypnotically rumbling tune unravelling out of a bright cacophony,some clattering song in the catacombs.”MELODY MAKER-1988

MORPHINE video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjjrBkaCALY

DESOLATION RAILWAY video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tSSwNqCJK8

TOTEM the second VFT album originally came out on DANCETERIA RECORDS(FRANCE) in 1989,recorded at RAVEN STUDIOS near Norwich and produced by HOWARD TURNER(NIVENS).

EUROPA videohttps://youtu.be/D20k4rNu_V0

PRESS-

“Their dark malevolent malaise has developed on its own terms.The very fact that eight more songs have sprung forth from the cauldron suggests that VFT aren’t messing about.In other words,the longer they go on playing this scary music,the more convincing it becomes.”ANDREW COLLINS/NME-1990

“All the songs have a hard hitting drum battery,choppy guitars,some clever keyboards,all overlaid with a voice that snarls,sneers and threatens.The press talk about PIL and Bauhaus but VFT have an identity of their own.From swelling keyboards to that mock Arabic wail.”TAB-1990

“VFT are the flowering of a nasty sort of Northampton dream.This record is not on government loan.This record does what it wants in a twisted sort of a way and i commend it to you as something bright.Its the only one of its kind and that counts for something.”PAT FISH/JAZZ BUTCHER-1989

PANDORAS BOX the third VFT album originally came out on DANCETERIA RECORDS(FRANCE)in 1991,recorded at SDH STUDIOS near Rouen/France by JEAN LOUIS(GREIF) and produced by PAT FISH(JAZZ BUTCHER).

ACHILLES HEEL videohttps://youtu.be/HUDNfxkniFw

PRESS-

“VFT have never played by the rules,preferring instead to make their own mark on the music industry by ignoring both convention and fashion in favour of their own belief and conviction.”SPIRAL SCRATCH-1991

“Leather clad msyterions,joy division,suicide hybrid,an album that should find itself clutched to many black clad bosoms.”BRUM BEAT-1992

LUNA TIDE the fourth VFT album originally released on SPECTRE RECORDS(GERMANY) in 1994,recorded at various studios OUTRIDER(UK),FAR HEATH(UK) by ANGUS and MANNI at HANSAHAUS,BONN(GERMANY).

MOSCOW MENAGERIE videohttps://youtu.be/bd_FwGS6_7o

PRESS-

“Semi concept album,darkly suggestive of that pre-goth rock mid 80s period,the musicianship is strong,all overlaid with a nifty doorsy Hammond organ.”KERRANG-1994

“VFT get more spacey in a Hawkwind way...maybe the Doors or 13th Floor Elevators with a hint of goth”.ORGAN-1995.

DARK AMOUR the fifth album originally came out on SOUNDBUSTER(GERMANY)in 1996,recorded at CAGE STUDIO in Coventry and produced by MARTIN BOWES(ATTRITION).

28TH MARCH videohttps://youtu.be/UQi2kL8v16c

PRESS-

“This offering mixes Psychic TV with hints of the Velvet Underground,very dark sparse ambient Hawkwind...Black psychedelic Sisters...futurist psyche outs,paranoia,obsession...classic film noir for your ears...forget everything you ever knew,their last release was good this is radiant.”ORGAN MAGAZINE 1997

“Incredible piece of creativity sees the band exploring new territories.The influences range from gothic rock to industrial and trippy psychedelic hypnotics.Classic.”FIGHT AMNESIA MAGAZINE-GERMANY 1998

“It has a filmic quality that wouldn’t sound out of place in th

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