The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Bored In Belgium

The Victorian English Gentlemens Club’s eponymous debut saw them groping their instruments like over-anxious teenagers, fast, furious and lots of fun. Their second is full of confidence and somewhat brutally, demands your respect.
'Love On An Oil Rig' takes triple distortion, the most obscure of harmonies and refracts them through the prism of pop. Where the first record wore its influences on its sleeve, this one stands alone. The stripped down primal ideas are defined and sharp, retaining their well-developed Art school sensibilities of the absurd, the outrageous and the other.
The album was produced, mixed and engineered by Charlie Francis. ‘Bored In Belgium’ is the third single to be taken from the record, following ‘Parrot’ and ‘Watching The Burglars’ in 2009, both of which garnered lashings of press and regular plays on Radio One, 6music and Xfm.

 Fall-esque drum tumbles, Slits-y female backing yelps and one of the best songs driven only by a girl tunefully whooping." NME
"VEGC’s main mark of distinction is the interplay between the male-female vocalists, best heard on the Sons And Daughters-esque stomper ‘Bored In Belgium’." Uncut
"A genuine leap forward." BBC 
“Moody and angular, spiteful art-pop with killer hooks and yelping vocals.” Time Out
"If Jack White's Dead Weather newbies had heard this prior to laying down a long-player of similarly threatening blues-scorched rock, chances are they'd quit while they were behind, knowing that's where they'd always stay." Clash

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