Viji by Nicole Ngai
With her debut album So Vanilla due for release next month on Speedy Wunderground, our latest Artist Of The Week is Viji.
WHO?
I’m Viji. I’m a solo artist but my live band consist of Ollie (guitarist), Zach (drums) and Suzy Clue (bass).
WHERE?
I’m from Vienna, Austria, mostly.
WHEN?
I started playing guitar at like 7, I should be a lot better at it than I am haha.
WHY?
I think most of the music I listen to is 90s early 2000s. The album is inspired by Elliot Smith, bikini kill, that dog. kind of era of music.
HOW?
My older cousin was in a band and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. His band mate gave me his old electric guitar which was the first one I ever had. Kind of spiralled from there really early on!
PAST?
I used to be a froyo girl, that was probably the funniest. Also bars, rehearsal/recording studios. I studied music production.
PRESENT?
I would say it’s alternative rock music, indie sleaze. Lots of guitars, soft husky vocals, pretty bass lines.
FUTURE?
Lots of writing, lots of touring round the world. I really want to go to Japan and Korea to play some shows.
DID YOU KNOW?
We went night swimming after a festival in the south of France, we did it a few times, it was super pretty but that night our drummer got stung by a jellyfish. He almost peed on himself, but then the festival rep scraped off the poison (with a bank card) and gave him a hot water bottle to put on it. Didn’t know that’s how it worked.
WHAT’S NEXT?
My single Karaoke just came out last week, there’s one more in a few weeks and then the album October 27th. We’re playing record stores around album release and other shows October/November.
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