Charged with a desire to craft wide-open and expansive heroic songs Andy Vaughan (Boy Girl Soup) formed Victory Through Sound with Spencer Parker during the winter of 2015 in Brighton. Michael Groves (Ex – Crystal Trip) joined on bass guitar mid 2016 and in the autumn, Al James completed the line-up on drums.
In 2016, the band were approached by Lester Square (Ex-Adam and the Ants, The Monochrome Set guitarist) and together they wrote the instrumental track, Ricochet. Andy went on to feature on Lester’s album Serotonin. Further to this, the band released Circus Girl featuring guest lead vocals by James Atkin, Ivor Novello winner and frontman to the globally successful band EMF.
Victory Through Sound weave classic guitar driven melody over everyday tales of loss, hope and love while name checking philosophers, painters, writers, nautical disaster and 50’s Hollywood stars. Musical references are extensive but draw heavily from 80s post punk and 90s indie.
In 2017 Victory Through Sound made their first appearance at The Great Escape (in association with End of the Trail Records and Fierce Panda) the globally recognised music event held in Brighton featuring the best in unsigned artists. The band have gone on to support Echobelly in association with Lout Promotions and 90s indie Scousers Space.
Spencer Parker and Al James left the band in 2022, Andy Vaughan relocated to Hastings and Matt Tooke was recruited on drums, followed by Yueko Ishida on guitar. The debut album was recorded, partly in Brighton as well as Brixton with Graham Coxon, The Damned and Republica drummer Stephen Gilchrist at the controls. The debut album is out now.
VICTORY THROUGH SOUND ARE:
Andy Vaughan – Vocals/Guitar
Michael Groves – Bass Guitar
Yueko Ishida – Guitar
Matt Tooke– Drums/Percussion
