"The band is skillful, interesting, and ambitious. Check them out." - Richard Hell, Richardhell.com web forum (7 October 2008)

"World Class." - BBC Introducing.

"DIY's coolest couple." Noize makes Enemies

“I haven’t liked any Brits this artsy-farsty since… well, it’s been a long time. 8/10” – Chuck Eddy, PaperThinWalls review of Motorman (Village Voice, Rolling Stone, etc.)

“Artrock epitomised…Suffocatingly intense…Bloody brilliant!” – Drowned in Sound, review of Jacques Rigaut single

"Layers of noise-making... grunge meets art meets rock meets art." – Artrocker, live review

“That was fantastic! Were you kicked out of the choir?” –Michael Eavis

“They have the kind of songs that can’t be confined to headphones…I’m not going to gush anymore about how much more interesting it is than, well, you know all that tepid other stuff... I’ll just tell you to buy Motorman. Because it’s a great album, deep and complex, literary and rocking.” (Chris Glynn, Drunken Werewolf zine feature)

"I was thrilled to learn that art-punk trio Venus Bogardus were kicking off tonight's billing. I've written about Venus Bogardus before, simply because they're one of the most original British indie bands I've heard in years.

"Indeed, the Bath based three-piece are one band who can truly claim to sound like no-one but themselves - These days, claiming to be original, and actually being original are poles apart, but Venus Bogardus are in posession of a sound, and a brilliantly crafted lyrical flair, that is truly of their own design." - Paul Towler, Bristol Rocks, Feb.2008

"Motorman, the album, is a wired up rush of post-punk psych-edged swirling energy. An urgent trip that never stops...sliced to hell glam-slammed psychedelic punk rock...sleep is no longer an option – on to the layers of Venus acid-pop grunge-art psychic TV intensity and oh look just go explore and taste for yourselves." – The Organ

"Venus Bogardus have the image and song subjects of a cerebral art band, but they rock with a capital R on stage. The engine that powers this left-bank 'Who' is the guitar of James Reich who eschews the jangle and lo-fi clank of many art bands for deliciously overdriven long tones, penetrating treble and heart-stopping chunk." – Charley Dunlap, Bath Chronicle, charleyspace.com, live review

"If I only had one word to describe what I think of them I’d have to use the word 'thrilling'. I can’t get enough of them." – Gary Smith, BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Introducing

“Artful pop-punk shards linked together with bizarre snippets of pseudo-pulp dialogue…like a caffeine driven narrative of wired hipster poetry…summoning up shades of Blank Generation angst with pedal-on-the-gas nuggets such as Birds, Autoclave, Analog Underground, or the Age of Sinatra, the latter of which has to be a hit single waiting to happen.” – Hugh Gulland, BucketFull of Brains

“(Venus Bogardus) rocks. Art-house punk! Gloriously good…Despite the frenetic pace and fuzzed up sound it's actually terrifically popcentric. Great stuff.” –eFestivals

"I've said it a thousand times to a thousand different people, [Venus Bogardus] are the most, if not the only, interesting band around at the moment." – The Birds Who Picked the Bullets Up (poetry collective)

“Venus Bogardus prove that electricity comes from other planets.” – OppositionT live review

"Venus Bogardus are something special...This is no-wave jamming with classic pop harmonies...Art, noise, heavens above something to write home about." –Tony Heywood, (Clash magazine, Music OMH, Highway Five)

“One of the most exciting live bands around, without a doubt.” – Bristol Uncovered

“Some people are just cool. Bath's Venus Bogardus are effortlessly so; the type to look like they're wearing sunglasses even when they're not…impassively raucous, louche rock’n’roll…” – Venue Magazine live review

“In their first gig -opening for Forward/Russia- they pretty much stole the show; everyone I talked to liked them best…Future stars.” – Bath Chronicle live review

“Without a doubt the highlight of the night!” - Grrr Grrr! zine

“Catchily fuzzy, lo-fi, this is guitar pop surfin’ on No Wave…Music that bridges punk, goth and psychedelic rock'n'roll, elements borrowed from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Talking Heads, Bis, Sonic Youth and the Pixies. An overwhelming impression of pounding rhythms, swirling guitar and diffident expressions.” – OppositionT live review

“I have tried and failed at not talking about this band!! Venus Bogardus are the definition of CBGB's circa 1977 with a smoking mix of early 90's grunge texture…Theirs is a sound that insists and persuades at the same time as rocking and thrashing! Guitar harmonics, killer riffs, big bass lines, pink hair, cardigans, and lyrics so good you can see them. These guys 'spit it out' so to speak, and they do so in a literary punk way! Yes that CAN exist and does in Venus Bogardus- get listening!” –Moles Club live review