Liberty Valance

Who is Liberty Valance?

To explain the sound of Pretoria's Liberty Valance, would be a Sisyphean exercise in futility. If forced to attempt, the most often mentioned features would be the combination of intelligent lyrics, frustrated anger and reason.

Liberty Valance takes you on a journey spanning from the 70's British punk-scene with its raw, nihilistic tendencies, through to the aggresive energy of the hardcore movement, straight to the varied and calculated emotional range of modern underground music.

Who is Liberty Valance? Through the machine-gun barrage of music, a thinking listener will pick up on the themes of Liberty Valance: Life, Love, Hate, Death, and the growing and decaying of personal relationships in a disorientating, Kafka-esque world, as seen through the whiskey-soaked, smoke-filled eyes of a twenty-something year-old.

With these themes in mind, Liberty Valance's music has progressed into a trademark sound of conviction, sincerity and power.

Liberty Valance finds pleasure in what they do, and the five members convey a message deeper than just a mohawk and a middle finger. With their dedication to their music, their devotion to punk rock and their powerful messages, Liberty Valance is set to receive the respect they so righteously deserve.

Who is Liberty Valance? They are your conscience. They are the small voice that thunders in the night, the watchdog who howls against the wolves, they are the father confessor. They are Liberty Valance.

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Who is Liberty Valance?

To explain the sound of Pretoria's Liberty Valance, would be a Sisyphean exercise in futility. If forced to attempt, the most often mentioned features would be the combination of intelligent lyrics, frustrated anger and reason.

Liberty Valance takes you on a journey spanning from the 70's British punk-scene with its raw, nihilistic tendencies, through to the aggresive energy of the hardcore movement, straight to the varied and calculated emotional range of modern... (read more)