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Vile Evils
12+ albums
industrialelectronicEvilutionbritishunder 2000 listeners
about
Just like Evil Nine, there were 2 of them & Vile Evils were neither vile nor evil, not really. The name came from their favourite punk rock tune, "Ambition" by Subway Sect, which closes with the line "And I won't be tempted by vile evils cos vile evils are vile evils". Can't argue with that now, can you? They were formed when the 2005 reunion of Pop Will Eat Itself (PWEI) failed to become a full-time project. Former singer Clint Mansell had declared himself too busy with his film soundtrack work and that was that. Oh well... Flashing forward to late 2009, the first VE album is inching ever closer and prime 'Evils Graham Crabb and Adam Mole took a third stab at a PWEI reunion in honour of the band's 25th anniversary. The other three erstwhile Poppies couldn't commit to it and didn't see it ever happening; they did, however, seem okay with Crabb reviving the PWEI name. Behind-the-scenes jiggery-pokery took place and, with all of a month left before the planned March 2010 release of Vive Le Vile Evils, Crabb and Mole dissolved their duo on friendly terms and a new PWEI sallied forth. Over the course of the Vile Evils' five-ish year reign of terror, the band's lineup changed semi-regularly. Initially a three-piece (with former PWEI drummer Fuzz Townshend), they parlayed the songs which would have formed the basis of the 6th PWEI album into a 2006/7 tour of the U.K. (along with unsung 'Evils Luke Mole and Matt K). Townshend departed somewhere during the band's extended stretch i
