The Wivez

“Music has always been a matter of energy for me, a question of fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
- Hunter S. Thompson

A novel metaphor for euphonic stimuli. Music as high-octane, full-throttle, fire-stoking. f#%k-around-and-find-out fuel.

It’s worked as the main source of power for Vancouver band The Wivez since its rubber first hit the road in 2015 when frontman Jordy Birch (Pure, Guilty About Girls), drummer Slam T. Hide or ‘Thunderhide’ (The KLF, Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction) and bassist Rob Edmonds began bonding as each others’ musical better halvez.

Since then, they’ve been playing and producing tunes that tap directly into that ancient, ever-thrumming pulse that powers the seekers and finders. The movers and shakers. The chewed up-and-spat-out. The ne’er-do-wells and malcontents. The beer drinkers and hell-raisers.

In 2023, guitarist Chris Switzer a.k.a. ‘Bean’, (Mystery Machine) hitched a ride and climbed aboard as a fourth, adding a decisive new snarl to the shtick.

Their influences run deep through genres and decades of decadence and debauchery, but there’s a shared sweet spot on the atlas where the the wave of ’60s surf music slams headlong into punk rock - a jangled, bedraggled, roughshod fever dream that never breaks.

The Wivez. Straight fuel for serious consumers.