'Optimism is not a Curse' and 'Patterns of Behaviour' are now available to download through iTunes (UK, US and Japan). £7.99 each or £0.79p per track.

Yes, we are still very much alive. But we can forgive you for thinking otherwise! Its been a strange year for us. For the first time not one band member lives in our adopted home town of Glasgow. When we started Viva Stereo we all lived in basically the same postcode, but now hundreds of miles separate each of us...but we shall soldier on.

We are now in our 5th year as a band, and we?ve seen many of our peers come and go, watched so many next big things wither away, and so many bands split up over this time. However, maybe because of our sheer bloody mindedness or indeed our will to keep experimenting with different styles we find ourselves preparing the release of our third album and feeling the same anticipation as we did back at the beginning.

Yeah, it does get frustrating. Or it did. Being out of the Glasgow loop has helped us get on with doing our own thing without getting worked up about not getting that elusive festival slot or mentioned as "a band to watch". After all, five years is along time to be "the next big thing". Anyway, enough soul searching! We are pleased to announce the release of a brand new EP. The 'Miles Apart' EP will be available to download FREE OF CHARGE for a limited period only through our myspace site yes, four brand new tracks completely free of charge so you?ve no excuse apart from laziness. So DO IT NOW!! We will be changing the tracks around xmas time, so get in while you can.

The lead track from this Ep is taken from our forthcoming third album, 'Roar, Lion, Roar', which will be released early 2008. We?ve been working hard on the album at Diving Bell studios and we?re really pleased with how its sounding so far. We hope yet again to enlist the help of some special guests to give the songs an extra something but we have about 9 somgs almost complete with a further 2/3 in the wings. To coincide with the EP release we will be playing the following Scottish dates:

Saturday November 17th, Barfly(upstairs), Glasgow
Special 'Biff Bang Pow' and official EP launch night, with live sets from ourselves and dj sets from Onthefly and Paul from My Latest Novel until 3am. As well as free entry to the club downstairs. Tickets can be ordered from BarFly

Wednesday November 28th, Tunnels, Aberdeen

Thursday November 29th, Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh

Friday November 30th, Monty's, Dunfermline (Is This Music? Night)

We can't emphasis enough how sporadic Viva Stereo gigs are these days(this will only be our third Glasgow gig of the year. We used to play 3 a month!) so if you want to catch us live anytime soon, these are the gigs to go to.

We've been busy in the studio. Rob, Tim and 'OnTheFly' have been blazing a trail on the new album. So far we have drums, bass and some guitars for about 4/5 of the tracks.
Stuart and Doug have still to put in their final recordings in for these. We hope to have it completed this year, but time we're not promising anything.
On a Live note, we're not playing again live till around November, so these are the last gigs while we invest some time pulling the album together.

Two exclusive tracks, one side of 10" vinyl. We are very pleased indeed to be taking up space on one side of a 10 part limited collection of Vinyl. 20 Fence artists in one box by the end! Go here and buy them all: De-Fence Records