Biography
Venus Ray, a British pop outfit, came together in the late 1990s with a roster that included Robert Coyne on bass, guitar, keyboards, and vocals, Diggory Kenrick on guitar, percussion, and vocals, Barney Oliver on bass, keyboards, and vocals, Steve Smith on drums and vocals, and Tony Thewlis on bass, guitar, harmonica, and vocals. The band issued the EPs Voyage to the Moon and The Day the Earth Stood Still in 2000, then delivered the album Chuck Berry Vs. IBM the following year. Negative, a U.K. indie, handled every one of these releases. Because the group let its many influences surface track by track, critics placed the music in power pop, alt country, and virtually any other guitar-based rock & roll category.
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