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Quirks Behind the Music - VITO's Andy PHOTOS BY KATY BLACKWOOD


For those readers not familiar with you or your music, tell us a little about yourselves and your sound?
Straight up Indie Rock, Sal. Like you kindly wrote for our Social Media bio, we just go out and play loud and fast and hopefully people will forget what they’re doing for that half an hour and have a good time. Don’t really go for gimmicks or a certain ‘Indie’ image (is that a gimmick in itself?)

Which artists have inspired you the most? Both individually and as a band.
It’s great to have artists that care about just writing good guitar music getting a name for themselves – artists like Catfish and The Bottlemen, Blossoms etc. We love what they’re all doing at the moment.

Why Vito? Any interesting stories behind the choosing of the name?
We used to just go under Tom Conway but wanted to change the name as we’re more of a collective than a singer-songwriter backing band, and genuinely couldn’t think of anything. No idea how people come up with original names these days. VITO just came about because Tom said it and we all kind of just went ‘well yeah…’ and since then it kind of stuck. With writing bigger tunes and just wanting to have a good time, turns out ‘VITO’ works well with having connections with giving life and then also the Vito Corleone just screams that everything we do should be black and white. Kind of a happy accident…


What's the best and most difficult part of being in a band?
For me the best part is when songs just come at you in a practice room. The amount of times we just sit there and someone has an idea and fifteen minutes later you have the large majority of a tune – all our best songs have come that way. Hardest part definitely has to be finding people that like the same music as you, have similar goals and are a fit to the band like. It’s been really hard to keep a consistent line up recently but we seem to be getting there.



What's your greatest musical achievement to date?
I’d have to say finding people who like the same music as us again!

If you could support any act live, who would you pick and why?
We’ve been talking recently about how great it’d be to play with Frank Turner –he must be one of the best live acts around and you get the vibe that his crowd are really cool people.


Do any of you have a favourite song to perform?
Well it depends which one goes well… My favourite song to play is called ‘Fire’ and it has a guitar solo in it.

So you recently played a gig with 'End of the Trail Records' at Newcastle's Head of Steam. What was that experience like?
Proper good – we love the Head of Steam and End of The Trail records equally.

Which locals bands have caught your eye recently? Who would you recommend going to see?
      I heard that VANT are pretty good. I also really like Deep.Sleep – we’re playing with them on             30th September at Jumpin’ Jacks, that one might be worth checking out.

Any final words? What's on the horizon for Vito?
      We’re recording a lot at the moment so we should be releasing singles from November and then         hopefully an EP from early 2017.
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