Australian-raised singer, multi-instrumentalist and award-winning songwriter John E Vistic plays a unique brand of punk, rock n roll and alt-country, described as ‘filthy’ by Damien of Mclusky/St. Pierre Snake Invasion.
Musical influences include The Jesus & Mary Chain, Marky Ramone, Jesus Lizard, PIL, Bauhaus, Stooges, The Birthday Party, The Cramps, Sisters of Mercy, The Cosmic Psychos, as well as contemporary acts Idles, Metz and Fontaines DC.
No stranger to the big stage, as well as appearances at Rebellion/Camp Bestival/Glastonbury and Latitude festivals, Vistic has shared the stage with the likes of Mudhoney, The Sonics, Alabama 3 and The Jim Jones Revue.
Most Recent Release:
Humanz are Bastardz EP is a raw, visceral and vicious aural attack, with an existentialist theme taking inspiration from novelists Jared Diamond – ‘Gunz Germs & steel’, Mikhailovich Dostoevsky – ‘Crime and Punishment’ (With added reference to ChatGpt /the Terminator movies) Karl Ove Knausgård – ‘Every purpose under heaven’ & Ian Dury (There ain’t half been some clever bastards) – ‘Humanz are Bastardz’. It follows the 2021 album ‘Under the Volcano’ (A ref to the infamous novel by Lowry) and recent singles ‘Das Ubermensch’ and ‘Spiderz’, that received airplay on the BBC, Kerrang and many others.
Upcoming Release:
2 new songs will be released this autumn! ‘Authenticate This’, and ‘Sin Sin Sin’ (produced by Stew Jackson (Massive Attack/The Outlaws) to coincide with the Mudhoney UK tour in late Sept /early Oct.
“You will be knocked over by the wall of sound which backs a vocal delivery sounding like Mark E Smith on heat ….. Amidst fuzzed up, squalling and distorted guitars’
– Louder Than War
‘A Vistic live show is sweaty, it’s loud, it’s intoxicating..an irresistible, unstoppable, larger than life force of nature..Vistic doesn’t do things by halves’
– BBC Introducing Bristol
