Basic Information
Label: Skaspot Records (Formerly Skinhead Records), Skaspot Records
Management: Dan Cowan
Members: Jock Strap - sax/ vocals, Legs - guitar / vocals, Count Steve - vocals / steel drums,
VILLAINS
Burnaby, BC, CA
Reggae / Ska / High energy Two Tone ska band
Bio
The Villains - a true story! Very few bands in the history of popular music have experienced exploding on to the national music scene like Canada’s VILLAINS. Shortly after arriving in Vancouver, the band found itself in the middle of an event that made front page headlines and received hourly updates on local and national radio and television. Performing in front of a packed club in downtown Vancouver, the VILLAINS were arrested on stage in the middle of a set by Canadian Immigration Off...
Past Shows
Fri, Jan 21, 2011
Doors Open: 8:00 PM
Ages: All Ages
San Francisco, CA
Comments
NTNA:
Just dropping by to do a bit of shameless self promotion. And to say "hi", of course...
"All right, then, I'll go to hell."
Mark Twain
May 25
NTNA:
Just dropping by to do a bit of shameless self promotion. And to say "hi", of course...
"All right, then, I'll go to hell."
Mark Twain
May 25
VILLAINS:
Whilst supping ale in my local, the ‘Dover Arms’, in the West End of Vancouver, which was just round the corner from where I was living at the time, with the aptly named Landlord, Hunky Bill. I was introduced by a fri...
Dec 09
Press
“The Villains are skinheads.....of the angelic sort. In Toronto, they're doing a benefit concert at the Hospital of Sick Children.”
Villain sighting
Status
Status:
We're number 13 on the ReverbNation World/Reggae charts for Vancouver, BC, Canada. www.reverbnation.com/villains
Blog
Villainous Beginning - How it all began by Count Steve
Dec 07, 2007 at 11:56 PM
It all started when I got a phone call from Greek Jim in early 1979 when he said ‘I have written two songs, got a bunch of young musicians together to record and want someone to do the vocals’. I met Jim, who I knew from the Vancouver Alternative Music Scene at the time. I listened to the two tracks, one track was called Sixth World, a dark ro...