Most people who are aware of the release of Pandoras Box, Venus Fly Traps second album proper,will probably have little, or no idea of the history of the bands mainman, Alex Novak. When his first band, Religious Overdose, hit the national music press circa 1981, he was described as "facially long and angular, topped with a squiff of black hair". The music was minimal guitar experimentation, a step away from the inanity of the wave of post punk, Three singles later and they were dead. Novak helped form The Tempest and music journals picked up On the band straight away. Musically, they were more structured and Novak, was described by Sounds as " ..A man whose square jaw and hardened features betray his Slavonic roots". Another clue to this man in black. On still further, and Novak became frontman again for established synth experimentalist combo, Attrition. Unhappy in another mans project, and with no media appraisal of his facial attributes Novak forms anew, and triumphs. Based on French label, Danceteria, the Northampton bred Venus Fly Trap are set to grow in stature with their new single Achilles Heel, taken from the new album Pandoras Box and Alex Novak is in the limelight more than ever before.
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