The Vistics are reaping the benefits of a hard gigging schedule.
Tight, lean and mean, they’ve settled on a four-man formation and it’s the best they’ve ever sounded.
‘Livelong Day’ throbs deliciously with sleazy sex offender guitar and Muscle shoals-style keyboards.
Mr Vistic growls with the utter conviction of a lizard king in Cuban heels and they close with a blistering ‘Andre Williams Rock N Roll’.
It’s 35 faultless minutes and they are fast becoming the perfect bar band reeking of gasoline and greasy pork chops.
When it’s all sizzling and smoking like this, the namby pamby dalliances of drum machines, vocoders and dance remixes suddenly seem a ludicrous diversion from the One True Way that is Rock N Roll.
Kid Pensioner. [Venue Magazine ‘Louisiana’ Review Jan 2009]

‘The John E Vistic Experience gathered a host of new (attractive, young and female) fans for the winsome drop-dead gorgeous frontman of this brilliant band.’‘Their sound was amazing, and they claimed the evening as theirs with a great set of songs which proved irresistible. To die for was the guitar work, and the smile on the bass guitarist’s face proved to anyone who doubted it that the right music can bring you the point of ecstasy!’[Trowbridge 2008]Review by James Mackenzie Marshall

‘What  first caught my ear through the slanting evening rain was an electric  lead line straight out of The Doors, pure Bobby Krieger, like hardly  anyone knows how to play any more, flashing diamond light against  black emptiness. That’s one hell of a first impression.’

[Glastonbury 2008]. - full review here

‘Thank the lord for the John E. Vistic Experience!’

[Bristol Evening Post May 2008]. - full review here

The John E. Vistic Experience utterly mauled the crowd with their swampy riffs and surly vocals. John The Revelator opened the set and immediately hooked the audience in, a loud spectacle channelling Nick Cave brawling with The Stooges over a nearly empty bottle of whiskey. Not one for all the family, but utterly captivating from the off.

[Bristol Evening Post April 2008].

‘John E Vistic, the English answer to Nick Cave but with an even bigger Guthrie styled country edge. This is a man with a voice and stage presence to surely end up on one of the main stages here in the future.’ [Glastonbury Festival Review 2007].

‘Mr Vistic has a big, deep mark Lanagan voice, and his band of banjo pluckers and slide guitar outlaws rattle out beefy rockerbilly somewhere
between the Pogues and Johnny Cash’ [Venue Magazine ‘South West Sound’ Review 2007]

‘Dark bruised blues, whiskey rimmed lyrics (I’m trying to resist the comparison to Dylan or Cash though both are hugely tempting) and the sentiment of Leonard Cohen on a bender’ [Glastonbury Festival Review 2007]

‘dirty, rocking, drinking music, terrific!’ – Pilton, [Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Comp Review 2007].

‘like Nick Cave fronting psychedelic era Stones - Yes that good!’ [Bath Fringe Festival Review 2006]

‘Elvis meets Johnny Depp cool’ – [Trowbridge Festival Review 2006]

‘filthy punkabillly country’ – [Ashton Court Festival Review 2006]