NEWS

Date:	News:
14/03/2012	We were in the studio at the weekend and recorded drums for several tracks to be included on the forthcoming album, Demonic Dinner Dance. The songs recorded were, The Big Welcome, Demonic Dinner Dance, Seating Plan, Head Of The Table, Lionheart, Camp David, Conversation Stopper & Disclaimer. Our next visit to the studio is on the 24th of this month when we will begin recording the bass and guitars.
09/02/2012	First appearance of the year this Sunday folks ... on the radio ... Leith FM. Show starts at 10pm
05/12/2011	A second review on our new CD is now online HERE Also, head over to our online shop and check out our new range of T-Shirts, colours, sizes and images to suit everyone
05/12/2011	A second review on our new CD is now online HERE Also, head over to our online shop and check out our new range of T-Shirts, colours, sizes and images to suit everyone
16/11/2011	First review on our new CD, Tomb of the Eagles is now online HERE
24/10/2011	Our big budget promotional video, featuring the song, Refuse To Play, is now available. You can either view it on our facebook page or on youtube
07/10/2011	Sunday's gig has been moved from Bannermans to Henry's Cellar Bar
03/10/2011	New Single, Obedience School is now available from Amazon, iTunes, eMusic, Napstar, and can be streamed on Spotify
20/09/2011	The new Vantage Point single, Obedience School, will be available from the 3rd of October. It is a digital release, so you will be able to get a copy from, Amazon, iTunes, and stream the track on Spotify. We have also booked the venue for our album launch. This will be at Cabaret Voltaire on Friday the 18th of November, more details to follow, including support band for the night.
02/08/2011	Our next Edinburgh gig is booked for the ninth of October in Bannermans, playing alongside Farseer from Glasgow and Regardless of Me from Italy. Click here for the Facebook Event
25/07/2011	Our next gig is this Saturday at the Dreadnaught in Bathgate, is a battle of the bands affair organised by Rock Radio in Glasgow. There are eight bands in total, we are on last at approximately 10pm.
24/07/2011	Home from the studio with a copy of the new album on CD to check, is sounding great.
17/07/2011	Four days booked in the studio over the coming week, plan is to get all the new songs mixed and then get the whole album mastered.
19/06/2011	Spent the day in studio mixing the recently recorded tracks. Most of the day was spent on the track, Wishing Well, which at just over seven minutes will be the longest song on the album.
07/05/2011	Excellent gig in Bannermans last night, Martin of Maiden Scotland got up and did vocals for 24 Hour Breakdown, and you can see the results on YouTube
09/04/2011	Murray was in the studio this weekend adding the vocals for the new tracks, was a very productive session and only Slow Down remains outstanding.
13/03/2011	Great gig in Bathgate on Friday night at the Dreadnaught along with Dirty Rose, Lethal Tendar & Demonic Sins. The rest of the weekend featured more studio work as we put down all the guitars for the recently recorded songs. Mark of Waysted photography came along and took some photographs and video footage, look out for these on our facebook page.
18/02/2011	We have booked a couple of gigs supporting Maiden Scotland, these are at the Star Bar in Montrose on Saturday the 26th of March, and in Edinburgh at Bannermans on Friday the 6th of May.
12/02/2011	We were in the studio today where drums were put down another six songs for consideration to go on the forthcoming album. Tracks recorded were, High Plains Drifter, Perfect World, Wishing Well, Cashin' In, Slow Down & Wanted. Tomorrow will be spent recording the bass guitar.
20/12/2010	Our 100th gig is almost upon us, if you don't know already it is at Cabaret Voltaire on Thursday the 23rd of December, support comes from Full Metal Racket. Look out for a feature in the Metro on Thursday about the gig.
Oct 2010	We are supporting Canadian band Kobra & The Lotus at the Bongo Club on Saturday the 20th of November. Then just before Christmas we are playing our 100th gig at Cabaret Voltaire, also in Edinburgh.
Sept 2010	Terrorizer magazine #201 features Vantage Point on one of their covermount CD. Track 16 on the Fear Candy CD. Check it out
July 2009	The new CD, Driller Killer is now available, and can be purchased from our online shop. Either for Ł4 on its own, or Ł10 when bought with the Daredevil On The Shore album. You can of course buy the CD from us at any gigs, plus it is also in stock at Hogs Head, South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. The CD was obviously launched at the Ark at the end of June and if you visit either our myspace or youtube pages, you can see video clips from this gig. This includes performances of two songs from the new EP, Stunned & Stressed Out, along with 24 Hour Breakdown, Gemma Gemini & Gripped By The Throat.
8th October 2008	We have tickets for sale for our gig with Maiden Scotland on the 21st of November. These cost Ł5 each and can be ordered from our online shop through paypal. We are also running an offer on tickets for this gig, if you buy a copy of the Daredevil On The Shore CD along with a Maiden Scotland ticket it will cost only Ł10. In other news we have confirmed two more gigs before the end of the year. As we are playing Ivory Blacks on December the 20th, again with Maiden Scotland, and then we are playing Henry's Cellar Bar in Edinburgh on Saturday the 27th of December.
17th September 2008	As well as being available to purchase in Hogs Head on South Clerk Street in Edinburgh, you can also get your hands on a copy of the Daredevil On The Shore album at Elvis Shakespeare on Leith Walk. You will though of course be able to buy them in person from us at any gig, the next one being this Saturday, 20th of September, at The Ark, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh. We were guests on the Rock Show on Black Diamond FM on Friday just passed, if you missed the show you can now listen in via the following link, http://bdfmclassicrockshow.mypodcast.com/index.html Thanks to DJ Mad Dan for having us the show, playing some of our songs and letting us choose some others to play over the airwaves. The full playlist was as follows, 1. Violent New Breed - Randy Pipers Animal 2. The Law Is Mine - Dangerous Toys 3. Rock & Roll Train - AC/DC 4. Too Hot Too Handle - UFO (Classic Live Track) 5. All Nightmare Long - Metallica 6. Pleasure Slave - Vantage Point 7. I Don't Know - Living Loud 8. Motor Man - Vantage Point 9. Caught In a Mosh - Anthrax 10. 24 Hour Breakdown - Vantage Point 11. Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue 12. That Was Just Your Life - Metallica 13. Livin On The edge - Aerosmith 14. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses 15. Aces High - Iron Maiden 16. Hellion/Electric Eye - Judas Priest 17. Meet Me Halfway - Glasgow 18. Jigsaw - Marillion (Rock Ballad) 19. Rifles - Enjoy Destroy 20. The Unforgiven III - Metallica 21. Feed My Soul - Voodoo Six 22. Hide Your Heart - Ace Frehley 23. Gimme Your Love - MSG (Big Hitter Track) 24. Princess Of The Night - Saxon (Battle Of The Bands Winner) 25. Switchblade Serenades - Sister Sin 26. What's Eatin You - Airbourne 27. What Is This - Lynam 28. Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
1st August 2008	Does the album sound a bit too much like Maiden, Priest & Purple? Well you can read a review of it in the current issue of Powerplay magazine and see what you think. They seem to reckon we show a bit too much of our influences and not enough for ourselves. Though they do redeem themselves slightly by saying that, Gripped By The Throat & Out Of Control are Classic Rock Tracks. Elsewhere we have confirmed a gig at The Ark in November supporting Maiden Scotland, tickets for this will soon be on sale via our online shop. Before then though we have gigs in Dundee and Hawick on the 15th and 29th of August respectively, as well as our own gig at The Ark on the 20th of September. The Hawick gig sees us supporting Scotland's Premier Judas Priest tribute, Junior Priest, so is well worth going along to.
18th July 2008	There will be a track from our new album played on Black Diamond Radio tonight. It will be on the rock show which is on from 8 until 11 on 107.8FM in Midlothian & South Edinburgh. Alternatively you can listen online at www.blackdiamondfm.com
17th July 2008	Episode 23 is another special episode featuring Brian Ross from British heavy metal band Blitzkrieg who took time out from the recent gig played at the Newcastle Academy to talk to us. Thanks go to Brian, Blitzkrieg and Flat Hill Promotions! Keep your eyes on the Ragnarok site as photos from Graspop should be online soon. The track-listing for the show looks like this... Arcane Corps - Anvilized Devian - Scarred Steel Prophet - Church Of Mind Vantage Point - Motor Man Crawler - Whiskey In The Jar Dirty Rose - Insanity The Gates Of Slumber - Dweller In The Deep High On Fire - Deviliution Overloaded - Feeling Overloaded
9th June 2008	The new album, Daredevil On The Shore, can now be purchased from Hogs Head, South Clerk Street, Edinburgh for Ł7.
19th April 2008	The album was officially launched at The Ark, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh last night. Thanks to all who came along to the gig and those who purchased the album. Also thanks to Matt from Bombskare who joined us on stage for 24 Hour Breakdown and Sail On, where he recreated the Hammond Organ parts he played on the recording. If you weren't able to make it along, or were there and spent all your money on drink thus couldn't purchase a copy of the album at the time. They can be ordered securely through paypal on this site and on our myspace page, www.myspace.com/vantagepointrocks for Ł7, or Ł8 if you are outside the UK.
15th April 2008	Album launch is this Friday at The Ark, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh. We will be playing the album in its entirety on stage, with some help from a guest musician on a couple of the songs. Then of course copies of the album will be available to purchase after the gig.
8th April 2008	Copies of the album have arrived at Vantage Point HQ, and they look splendid, shrink wrapped and everything! Not long now until the album launch and a chance for everyone to get their hands on the 13 track metal masterpiece!
15th March 2008	Artwork has been completed for the, Daredevil On The Shore, album and can be seen on the front page now. Separate artwork has also been done for the song, Go To Hell, which can be seen over at our myspace page, www.myspace.com/vantagepointrocks along with artwork from our previous releases.
2nd March 2008	The album launch for Daredevil On The Shore, will be at The Ark, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh. This will be the first chance for people to buy copies of the new CD which features 13 songs, full tracklisting as follows: 1. Fire Island 2. Gaydar 3. Pleasure Slave 4. Motor Man 5. Gemma Gemini 6. Devil's Spawn 7. Go To Hell 8. Gripped By The Throat 9. Out Of Control 10. 24 Hour Breakdown 11. Too Much Work 12. Sail On 13. Daredevil On The Shore
28th January 08	eh, Happy New Year folks!! Been a while since we stopped by and left you all a news update so here goes... New recordings from last year have been mastered and the final copies were handed to band members last week. Sounding great. Really looking forward to getting the tunes out there for you all to check out. We're still working on the artwork for the CD cover with two ideas being considered. Murray, as per usual is way ahead of himself and has already got the tracklisting for album 2 written out. A mixture of some old tunes re-arranged, and some new tunes that we have been working on over the last month or two. Gig bookings are slowly coming in for this year, very slowly! But keep an eye on the gigs page as we shall be adding more as soon as we get back into the swing of things after the Xmas/New Year break. Cheers.
7th September 07	Been a bit quiet on the news front, but don't worry, we've not been! All guitars, drums and vocals have been recorded for the new album. The first un-mixed copy of the latest tunes was handed to us this week for our review.
28th June 07	Liam & Derek were in the studio last week to work on the latest recordings for the new album Power Point. All the guitars were completed for the four latest tracks recorded, these being, Motor Man, Go To Hell, 24 Hour Breakdown, & Out of Control. All that remains to be down for these songs is Murray to go in and record the vocals. Artwork for the album is nearly completed and should be unveiled on the website soon. Final order for the tracks on the album has yet to be decided, but all the songs set for inclusion are as follows, Fire Island, Gaydar, Pleasure Slave, Motor Man, Gemma Gemini, Sail On, Too Much Work, Devil's Spawn, Go To Hell, 24 Hour Breakdown, Out Of Control, Gripped By The Throat & Dare Devil On The Shore.
5th June 07	Just a quick update re our side project Junior Priest who are booked to play Bannermans in Edinburgh later this month, check out the website for details.
5th Apr 07	Almost finished mixing the new tunes, a couple of them can be heard on our MySpace page, go check them out and let us know what you think folks.
5th Mar 07	Picked up the first draft mix of the new recordings last night, sounding great! Great sound overall, and Murray's vocals are the coolest ever! Booked in for the final mixing a week on Saturday after our trip to Shetland, our first 'overseas' gig!!
13th Feb 07	Day Three in the studio: Vocals done and dusted, sounding fanfuckingtastic!
4th Feb 07	Day Two in the studio: Drum and Bass tracks reviewed and rejected!! No, just kidding, some minor points needed correcting then it was onto the Guitars. Sterling efforts were made by both Lum and Del however we still ran short on time so no vocals today!! A couple of video clips are now up on our YouTube pages, and the first of the studio photos are up on the Studio Gallery
3rd Feb 07	Day One in the studio: Drum and Bass tracks laid down for Gaydar, Devil's Spawn, Daredevil On The Shore and Pleasure Slave. Back again tomorrow to review them, sort any fuck ups and then start work on the geetars and vocals. Some photos and video courtesy of Allan, Dawn and Del were taken and will be online in the very near future.
26th Jan 07	For those who have been asking, we are heading back into the studio a week tomorrow to record some of our new material. We plan to record Gaydar and Devil's Spawn which have featured in a couple of our sets, and one brand new tune called Daredevil On The Shore. If there is any time free we may even look at re-doing a cuople of old favourites!
7th Jan 07	New website is finally here folks!
30th Oct 06	Majority of the work has been completed on the new website, hopefully should be online in the New Year
September 06	Started working on our Judas Priest covers for the tribute night later in November. Dawn will be back on the bass for this set.
19th May 06	WE WON! Fuckin' hell, we just won the Radio Border's, Battle of the Bands 2006!!
February 06	Liam steps in to fill Ali's shoes
January 06	Ali decides to take a break from the mighty Vantage Point