Born and raised in a trailer park of a town called Burgerville, The Wife Beaters are the product of a sawdust Caesar environment, thumping rudely on the door of success and daring it to come out and face them...
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They are nothing but lawless out-of-luck redneck garage punk rock 'n' roll reprobates from a trailer park called Sin.
The Wife Beaters started off in Burgerville with some stolen instruments because they were - and still are - dirt-poor trailer trash. They didn't know how to play but damn they knew how to kick up a noisy row. About three months in they broke into a recording studio and laid down their first album live on tape. The session became The Wife Beaters' near-legendary 2011 self-titled debut record. They got the crowds rockin' and rollin' and proved so dangerous people began spitting on their name when they were billed outside. One of Burgerville's bars was so disgusted they vowed never to put on live music again. A year after capturing their rabble-rousing first 14 songs The Wife Beaters recorded their second album, 'Hit 'em Again!', unleashed on an unsuspecting public in October 2012. Even the loss of founding member Lew Lewis and unwavering public apathy couldn't prevent the rowdy rabble from continuing - and they returned in the summer of 2013 with their raucous 17-track comeback LP, 'The Beat Goes On!'. That was followed by a ghoulish limited-edition Halloween-themed EP titled 'Trailer Park of Terror!'. |
THE WIFE BEATERS ARE...
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VIC VITOLGuitar & Vocals
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PARENTAGE unknown but suspected to be son of a prostitute and gambler from the town of Burgerville.
Raised in an orphanage until he was old enough to be sent to borstal for burning it down. Institutionalised and schooled in criminal activities. Convicted of graverobbing at the age of 18. Charged aged 20 with shooting a postman he said was trying to break into his letterbox. Not much is known about his life after this except rumours and wild speculation...until he started The Wife Beaters. |
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ALEX ANGER
Drums
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BASTARD son of WWF wrestler Earthquake, Alex Anger was raised by the military to become a rhythmical killing machine - but was too insane for them to control.
After a courageous escape, and 438 bodies later, Anger rode into Burgerville to start an underground meth-fuelled fight league. He met Vic Vitol in a knife fight and was convinced to play drums for The Wife Beaters in exchange for free whiskey and all the sparklers he demanded. |
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EDDIE EVAL
Bass
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RAISED by wolves in deepest, darkest Siberia, Eddie Eval fled the pack to begin a new life as a Hollywood stuntman.
He quit showbiz in 2005 after accidentally leaving his stash of TNT in Charlie Sheen's trailer - with bizarre consequences. He fell in with Thai drug lords while taking time out of the movie business, and rose through the ranks to become the most feared man in the game. Haunted by memories of back-alley drug-pushing and blood-thirsty torture chambers, he joined The Wife Beaters after his daring escape from a Bangkok jail. |
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JIMMY JAIL
Lead Guitar
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A NATIVE of Burgerville, Jimmy Jail fell into a life of crime at an early age.
By the age of 14 he had gathered an extensive list of convictions, largely for petty shoplifting and abstracting electricity to power his remote-controlled car and ham radio. Well known to the County Sheriff, Jimmy had spent a considerable amount of time behind bars by the time he hit 21 - and had developed a taste for drunken violence and vandalism. He has recently been released from the state penitentiary after serving a five-year sentence for viciously beating an elderly gentleman who spilled his drink over Jimmy's shoes. He may not be the toughest member of The Wife Beaters, but he is certainly the most dangerous. |
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THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY....
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LEW LEWISLead Guitar (2009-2012)
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SON of a moonshiner from Burgerville woods, Lew Lewis grew up brewing up. He left home aged 15 on a motorcycle knowing the banjo - but was in his first bands on guitar by the late '60s.
Lew learned his craft and his musical journey took him all over the world until he retired in 1980 to the South of France. He spent the rest of the Cold War in Germany, and pitched up back in Burgerville in the '90s when The Wall came down and Communism collapsed. Lew was back where he started and it was a different world, but that didn't stop him drinking. He came out of retirement for The Wife Beaters - still a rock & roll warrior in his 50s - proving his imperious character on two albums of punk rampage that defied his years. Not long after the release of the second of these albums, Lew Lewis died of cancer in December 2012. He will be remembered as a brother in arms. |
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TOM TEMPERBass (2010-2012)
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BURGERVILLE born and bred, Tom Temper was chosen to play the church piano - but asked to leave because of his rage-filled explosions of blasphemy.
In frustration, Tom borrowed a bass from someone who was out of their house at the time, and joined The Wife Beaters. After a couple of years, two albums, and several destroyed bass guitars later, Tom escaped the clutches of the band and went on the run. Reports have surfaced of him posing as a freelance surgeon, which, if true, mean he has finally found some patients... |
