Biography
Started in 1993 as a duo, Three Archibeque (now a clothing Designer and host at San Francisco's club TRUCK) and Angelique X (featured in bands East Bay Drifters, Charm School Dropouts and currently as a puppeteer/drummer/singer/Theramin player in the Shadow Circus Vaudeville Theatre and leade singer in Alt. Country group T&A) found each other in Modesto, California.
They then added bassiest Sonya Westcott (Rogue Wave), former violinist Justine Miller, and drummer Sandi Powell (Chapter Black). As Venus Bleeding evolved, drummer Corey Moore ( SLA) replaced Powell and Jenn Slatten(Space Vacumn in Outer Space,ArmagetIon) took over on electric violin.
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Venus Bleeding moved to the SF Bay Area in1997 where they played such stages as The Fillmore, The Great American Music Hall, Bottom of the Hill,Slim's,The Usual, Cactus Club and legendary Gilman St. In Berkeley, Ca..
They have played with The Fixx, Le Tigre, The Fuzztones,Gene Loves Jezebel, Berlin, the Groovie Ghoulies, Pansy Division, Wire Graffiti, Castles In Spain and the Gun & Doll Show to name a few.
They had 3 releases, Self-Titled, 9-Volt & Dye, and Fakelore. New Orlean's director Mia Salsi of Spiral Pictures produced/directed of video for "E" from the Fakelore album. Venus Bleeding won "Best Rock Band of 2001" by the SF Weekly Music Awards and has appeared on a few nationally released compositions.
Nadine Condon coined them the "next Heart" and comparisions ranged from "Blondie" (San Jose Metro) and "Concrete Blonde cum Wilson Sisters (BAM Magazine) and described as a fusion of New Wave and Punk. Venus Bleeding was feature on the cover of UrbanView (Oakland) and the East Bay Express News weekly in 2003. With a 4th release to be produced by Bill Cutler (Spike 1000) in the works Venus Bleeding called it quits in 2004.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.