New York punk survivor Sonny Vincent has swung back into action after a long lay-off – and how.
Fresh from three shows in Germany to provide live footage for a Danny Garica documentary about him, he’s doing a run of shows in Spain and releasing a second album with his US-Euro band The Limit.
The Limit features Vincent and Pentagram singer Bobby Leibling and will release their second album, “Another Drop”, on July 31. It’s being preceded by a single, “Part Two, Screw You”, featuring Liebling, Vincent (guitar and vocals) Steve Stevens (guitar) and Alex Schwers-(drums). Album pre-orders are open here.
For the unitiated, Sonny Vincent has released 28 albums and his live and recording collaborators are a roll call of underground and proro-punk rock and roll. They have included Scott and Ron Asheton, Jimmy Reva (Stooges), Moe Tucker and Sterling Morrison (Velvet Underground), Steve Baise (Devil Dogs), Spencer P Jones (Beasts of Bourbon), Captain Sensible (The Damned), Wayne Kramer (MC5) and Bob Stinson (The Replacements).
Sonny disappeared from music for years after a family housefire forced him to return to the US from his base in Europe to look after his badly injured grandson. The onetime frontman for NYC Lower East Side misfits Testors is well and truly back in the saddle.
The Danny Garcia connection is intriguing. His credits include “The Rise and Fall of The Clash “(2012), “Looking for Johnny” (2014), “Sad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancy” (2016), “Stiv” (2019), “Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones” (2019), “Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC” (2022), and “Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel” (2023).
