blueFROG's take on Vandalism
Vandalism have completed over a dozen international tours in the last 3 years, which included gigs at the world’s leading Clubs & festivals in London, Ibiza, Greece, Zurich, Sweden, Moscow, Canada, Korea, Poland, Ireland & New Zealand, to name a few. They’ve performed alongside some of the world’s leading DJs & acts, including David Guetta, Eric Morillo, Steve Aoki, Prodigy, MSTRKRFT, Boys Noize and many more.
About Vandalism
Australia’s leading Electro/Dance outfit Vandalism has been enjoying success as one the most sought-after electro artists in the world. With the increasing demand for their distinctive live shows, they have been touring across the globe with their ‘in-yer-face’ performances, featuring Andy Van tearing up the decks and vocalist Cassie Van with her head-turning live performances. They have completed over a dozen international tours in the last 3 years, which included gigs at the world’s leading Clubs & festivals in London, Ibiza, Greece, Zurich, Sweden, Moscow, Canada, Korea, Poland, Ireland & New Zealand, to name a few.
Australia’s leading Electro/Dance outfit Vandalism has been enjoying success as one the most sought-after electro artists in the world. With the increasing demand for their distinctive live shows, they have been touring across the globe with their ‘in-yer-face’ performances, featuring Andy Van tearing up the decks and vocalist Cassie Van with her head-turning live performances. They have completed over a dozen international tours in the last 3 years, which included gigs at the world’s leading Clubs & festivals in London, Ibiza, Greece, Zurich, Sweden, Moscow, Canada, Korea, Poland, Ireland & New Zealand, to name a few.
They’ve performed alongside some of the world’s leading DJs & acts, including David Guetta, Eric Morillo, Steve Aoki, Prodigy, MSTRKRFT, Boys Noize and many more. To date Vandalism have released a barrage of top-shelf singles, including She Got It, Throw Your Hands Up, Smash Disco, Never Say Never, Hablando, Bucci Bag & some of the biggest remixes in Clubland over the last 5 years, including Creeps , Rise Up, Heater, Toca’s Miracle, Blue Monday, Get Shaky, Right In The Night, I Believe, What’s It Gonna Be, He Not In, Girls & Boys, Back Once Again & Automatic Machine, most them achieving #1 positions on Beatport, Djdownload.com & other DJ download sites (see bottom of Bio for more info) The first sounds of Vandalism originally began in 2004 when Andy Van & Kam Denny hooked up to bootleg & mashup electro & house tunes.
From there they started remixing other people tracks, the first was their massive Remix of “Creeps” by The Freaks. Cassie joined the group as the lead vocalist and lyricist in 2005. They have enjoyed an amazing rise to become one of Australia’s leading Electro/Dance Outfits.
Andy Van has been one of Australia’s leading DJs for over 2 decades and has spun at virtually all of Australia’s biggest clubs & events including Summadayze, Gatecrasher, Stereosonic, One Love, Platinum, HQ, Family, Kink. (to name a few). He has also spun out to hundreds of thousands of clubbers across the globe…including performances at Love Parade (UK), Creamfields, Manumission, Space, Bora Bora, (Ibiza), Ministry UK, as well as gigs in Russia, Miami, Korea, Japan, Sweden, Greece & Holland alongside the world’s leading DJs including Pete Tong, Eric Moriilo, Roger Sanchez, Armand Van Helden, Fatboy Slim, Angello & Ingrosso, Sasha & John Digweed. On radio he’s trounced transmissions via Britain’s Radio 1 (alongside Danny Rampling), Australia’s Austereo Network (on the Loaded Dance show for 3 years) and Melbourne’s agenda-setting Kiss FM.
When not wreaking turntable havoc, Van’s swung a bat through the record industry with his internationally-renowned Vicious Dance Label, home to artists such as Dirty South, The Potbelleez, AVICII, Angger Dimas, Cabin Crew, mrTimothy, Mind Electric, Mic Newman and many more. And in between all of this, he’s also achieved massive success with his producers hat on….including 2 million plus sales of Singles & Albums and #1 UK & Australia chart placements as one-half of household invaders Madison Avenue, with their Hits “Don’t Call Me Baby” & “Who The Hell Are You”.
And his remix of Tom Novy’s “Your Body” was massive Dance & Pop hit around the world. He’s also delivered a constant flow of mix CDs (including three MOS Annuals & 2 Pacha Compilations) achieving sales well over half a million copies.
Cassie Van is one of Australia’s most exciting vocalists, lyricists & performers. Her sexy vocals, commanding stage presence & show stopping outfits are now being recognized world wide. She has performed in some of the best clubs and festivals in the recent years all over Europe, Asia, UK, North America and her home country Australia. Cassie has been on the stage since the ripe age of 4 and packed her bags at the age of 17 to move from the small country town she grew up in to Melbourne to establish her showbiz dreams.
She became a professional dancer straight away, dancing for many recording artists including Kylie Minogue, Madison Avenue, Peter Andre, Meatloaf and many more. She also became the host of the basketball television show 'SLAM' on Channel 10 which took the viewers on a journey behind the scenes of NBL Basketballers. She then joined her first band ‘Girl Mansion’, an all girl covers band performing classic 80’s new wave songs while perfecting her rock attitude.
It was during her days as a lead dancer for the hugely successful disco/house artist Madison Avenue that she met Andy Van & eventually their passion for dance music bought them into the studio together. Her first song with Vandalism ‘Never say Never’ became a huge club hit around the world. And so also began the start of her professional song writing career by penning the songs ‘She Got It’, ‘Smash Disco’,‘Twisted’, 'Throw Your hands Up' and 'Vegas'.
