Private Vices

PRIVATE VICES was a band based in the UK that included members of French origin. Their first gig was in December 1978 and they would play alongside bands such as Generation X, Motorhead, The Damned, Dickies and more!

Christophe Rühn (aka Christov Brilliant, guitar, vocals) and Bruno Blum on bass were joined by Antoine Heidler (drums) and Christopher McCullough (aka Noggin) on guitar and vocals. Noggin had been in Paradox with Bob “Derwood ” Andrews who had joined Generation X. Now like Derwood, his hair was suitably shorn and he had also roadied for Gen X for a while.

Private Vices started playing pubs and played many club shows in London, including The Marquee Club, The Nashville, The Acklam Hall and The Electric Ballroom, toured Great Britain (including with The Dickies) and split up in Paris, December 1979 after a series of gigs at the Gibus Club.

Two tracks were recorded in April, 1979 at London’s Rockstar Studios, “Paris 84” and “Total Control.” They were supposed to be released on the Cherry Red label in London, but it never happened. These two tracks were released on 1987’s Les 30 Plus Grands Succès Du Punk compilation of vintage French punk, alongside contemporaries like Metal Urbain, the Dogs, Guilty Razors, and Gasoline. 

They are both absolutely killer tracks and heavily influenced by The Stooges Raw Power and Heartbreakers sound. And there is really the problem because if they had been released it would have been 1979 not 1977.

These tracks by Private Vices would later be released in 2018 with the rather dodgy picture sleeve above that Adam Ant would probably have been proud of in 1977.

Noggin would later be in the band Red Rage and release Total Control as a single on Flickknife Records in 1980. Bruno Blum designed the cover.

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