Midnight Vice

Künstlerinfos:

MIDNITE VICE (later MIDNIGHT VICE) was formed in 1983 by Rick Hart, Rob Furland & Sandy Hyde. A two song demo recording at OCEAN SOUND was made that year but with Rick Hart on Bass/Vocals and another guitarist named Gord Spence. Shortly after this recording, Gord would leave, Rick would switch to guitar and Rod Bruno would be added on bass. Another demo recording was made later in 1983 with Sandy taking the lead vocal position and circulated as the 'Silencer' demo.
Next came a recording project with new material at GRAPEVINE STUDIO with Carlos Tesler handling the vocals. From these recordings a track called 'Shanghai Battlecry' was the only one completed due to time constraints and finally Carlos deciding to leave the band. A new vocalist was soon found by the name of Andrew Marti and a rough demo was put together using bed tracks from the previous GRAPEVINE STUDIO sessions. During the late winter/spring months of 1984 a full length recording was completed and released on cassette known as the 'Vice 'n' Virtue' demo. This had limited circulation within the underground heavy metal scene and received mixed reviews.

The band then made a few live appearances including a memorable night at The Cambie Hotel in Vancouver with a friend of the band, John Hacock, filling in on bass guitar for that show. Not long after the shows with Rod back playing bass and Andrew out, the band began working on new material with another new vocalist named Steve Jack (later a member of 'ROCKHEAD'). These new tracks were recorded for the STUDIO 12 demo including a reworked older track called 'Vice Squad' which was later remixed by Jeff Ulmer ('SACRED BLADE') and included on the 1985 New Renaissance Records release entitled 'SPEED METAL HELL'.

Just prior to the release of SMH, changes with the line-up continued. Both Steve Jack and Rob Furland were no longer a part of Midnight Vice leaving the remaining 3 members Rick, Rod & Sandy to work on new songs and search for replacements. The band then enlisted a new vocalist by the name of Brent Brennan and shortly after Rick Hart would leave and be replaced by guitarist Mick Wood. Midnight Vice finally called it quits in late 1985. Rod is currently playing with 'THE MATTHEW GOOD BAND' and Sandy went on to play with several bands including Canada's 'PRETTY BOY FLOYD' and has for many years been the drummer for the 'MCRACKINS'.

The band is currently finishing a demo track which will uploaded to the bands myspace page.

reprinted by kind permission of Rob Furland