"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Based on 41 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Viet Cong is rated as an impressive live performer, with worthwhile shows overall. Viet Cong concert reviews describe live shows and performances as thundering, intense, thunderous, and frantic.
Viet Cong are now Preoccupations. Since Women's dissolution, the members of the Calgary band have gone on to form various projects, and this includes Viet Cong.
Has Performed With
Freak Heat Waves, Crosss
Critic Concert Reviews
The 13th Floor (New Zealand)
January 22, 2016
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Often the venue is hot, sweaty and jam-packed with fans anxious to start the new year off in a rock and roll frenzy.
“We were up till 7am partying in Leeds last night,” says Matt Flegel, singer and bassist in apocalyptic Calgary post-punkers Viet Cong. This explains why they couldn’t make the interview we were promised. Unfortunately for him, he’s been cornered at the bar for a pre-gig interrogation. Fortunately for us, he’
Starting with two tracks from their 2014 Cassette EP the band demonstrated their tightness and synchronicity by weaving through dissonant riffs and shifting complex time signatures.
Scheduled just after Kehlani's pop/R&B hybrid and before Migos and secret guests Big Sean and T-Pain the Calgary natives found themselves playing to an audience about as receptive to them as Ivan Krasnov.
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