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About DVS
DVS history in short.
Sean Carr – Lead vocals
Mick Lake – Guitar, backing vocals
Sergiy Lukashevych – Bass guitar
Sergij Ozeryan – Lead guitar
Volodymyr Butiaiev – Drums
When musicians from different countries and cultures get together and put their creative energy to a new project, it usually becomes very powerful…Well, this one definitely is…; ) Thus in January 2005 the DVS (Death Valley Screamers) rock band was formed. The experience of three Ukrainian musicians – Volodymyr, Bogdan and Sergiy (ex -«Lazy Town»), and of two British - Mick and Sean (ex-infinite number of musical projects), crossed. The band started with the old well-known rock and with the songs written by Sean and Mick 20 years ago – well, some things never change!
The front man added a new colorful biker page to the band's history. In July 2005DVS for the first time came on to the bike-scene of «Tarasova Gora» (Taras' Hill) biker’s festival. The band dipped into extreme festivals, bikes and gained attention of the new fabulous audience. As soon as Sean and his band have discovered rocker world, with the same speed this world accepted their new rock band. After all, Seamus (this is Sean's biker name) knows very well how to appeal to this audience, knows how loud and professional the sound should be, in general – he knows what bikers and rockers want because he is one of them.
From the very beginning friends and irreplaceable helpers - «Borsch» band, always were there in the beginning and supported DVS in everything. The bands played together several joint concerts. The friendship came to its peak during the joint tour in February 2006, crowned by the hit “Far Far Away”, which came 1st in M1’s charts that winter. Then DVS first solo concert took place and it got off!
In February 2005 the first album «Just Crazy» appeared. The album caused a great wave of interest among mass media representatives, critics and fans.
In summer 2005 the next biker concert this time spurred Russia, Krasnodarskiy Kray, famous Taman’ rocker festival. Local bikers met DVS with a powerful support and went as crazy as they could. The majority of shots in the video «Just Crazy» are just from this crazy gig.
In 2005 the band played in support of Eurovision Song Contest, and the next day on Eurovision stage in the Eurocity on Trukhanov's island.
After that the band performed at the Independence Day concert in front of a 250-thousand audience on Independence Square (Majdan) and the songs «Blown it» and «Just crazy» were met with a considerable noise and dancing on the part of the multi-aged audience, even the hutsul inset in rock arrangement looked as a natural addition to the «Just Crazy» song which later was named «Crazy Kozak».
Rock ‘n’ roll life can't be trivial, and at Sean's and Zhenya’s wedding in October 2005, DVS played on live broadcast for all Radio Rocks listeners.
In January 2006 (at their anniversary!) the first video «Just Crazy» of the first album «Just Crazy» has seen the light! The viewers of popular rock Enter-Music channel were the first listeners of the song which was calling to end the war.
In the same year a 23-day tour took place, where during their stay in Donetsk Sean was proposed to take a closer look at miners' real life and to go down to the common for them depths. Sean didn't refuse...
Miners work conditions made a strong impression on him and his experience later allowed him to reflect his strong feelings in his lyrics. He promised that the band would without fail write a song dedicated to miners of Donetsk, their non-real, life threatening literally deadly work conditions. Of course this song must have real miners in it. Friends from Donetsk have helped DVS to get together a choir made up of real miners.
During the friendly cooperation with «Borsch» the hit «Far Far Away» is recorded. The video was recorded at the newly designed terminal in Boryspil international airport and even on the runway at -20 degrees Celsius. During the first several weeks it hit the first in Ukraine's charts, the 12th place in Russia and the 8th in Israel. As a result of this thecollection «Far Far Away», and also the video «No Reason to Hate» appeared.
After a vibrant concert at a biker gathering in Lviv, the band went to «Tarasova Gora» (Taras' Hill) bike festival near Cherkasy for the second time. Later it played at Tavria Games festival, most popular 10 year old music festival in Ukraine. And in January 2007 a tour throughout Western Ukraine took place.
On July 5th DVS have represented new album «BIG FISH»! In support to the new album Crash Landing song got her visualization through video directed by well known Stekolenko brothers. Video has hit the charts on several Ukrainian music channels.
On September 22nd 2007 the band came up with new project. Sean didn’t forget his promise and a Fallen Friends song and video dedicated to miners of Donetsk were released. Video was directed by Igor and Olexandr Stekolenko. This was the first social project of the band. Presentation was held in Donetsk with support of Kyiv Chamber Band Napoleon and Donetsk Miners Choir. Shortly after on request of families of fallen miners two additional presentations were held in Lugansk and Rovenky.
During autumn 2007 DVS starts working on their next album. There is a lot of creativity; new bass guitar player appears in the band – Sergiy.
Band keeps rock’n’rollin with the gigs all around Ukraine and abroad, plays at the festivals. Material for the new album is growing on and on. Some of the new songs are included on the gig playlists and are greeted well by the audience.
At the beginning of 2009 DVS will shoot a new video for the song «Bonnie and Clyde». New album is coming soon.
Historycontinues.
Discografy:
BIG FISH (2007)
FAR AWAY (2005) – DVS vs Áîðù
JUST CRAZY (2005)
Videos:
Fallen Friends (2007)
Crash Landing (2007)
No Reason to Hate (2006)
Far Away (2006)
Just Crazy (2006)
Sean Carr
Born in a small village called Thorner just outside Leeds. Sean’s earliest interests were his bike and his gun. He spent many a day in those early years practicing the skills that would later benefit him in his chosen way of life, the life of a biker.
At a young age whilst siphoning fuel from a vehicle he swallowed an almost fatal amount of petrol. After many worrying week in hospital, tests revealed that Sean had a rare blood condition. An unusually high level of the chemical JD ¹7. Seemed to be what was required. Once doctors realised and administered high doses of JD ¹7, Sean made a speedy recovery, although not without side effect, such as double vision and early morning flatulence.
Sean grew into a healthy and strong teenager and took up boxing and swimming. He won competitions and junior championships. About this time, Sean moved to live in Spain with his Father, where he learned to speak fluent Spanish, cook paella and drink sangria. But he returned to Leeds in his late teens and to his passion for bikes. By now he could strip a bike and reassemble it and started considering building a bike to suit his own needs.
He worked in the family business as a cobbler in Leeds market and became a well known face amongst the market traders and a regular in The Diddley Dee Irish pub, where he still visits when back in his home town.
At this point in his life Sean decided to try his luck in the rock’n’roll business, as a singer. He teamed up with friend Paul and formed a band. It was named Paris In The Fall.
Paul introduced Sean to Mick Lake who joined also and they started writing and rehearsing songs together. Most of the first DVS album was written in that period of time.
Paris In The Fall stayed together, for about 4 years in which time Sean realised his desire to sing rock on stage wasn’t going to fade.
The rock’n’roll life style suited him perfect. He started to sing for a band called Jelly Fish Kiss but it didn’t last long. They just weren’t rock’n’roll enough for him.
Sean went on his travels again. He rode his bike to France and fell in love with the beautiful Alpine mountains and decided to start a business there making leather goods and learned to speak fluent French.
But he still needed the adrenalin rush that singing on stage provides and so formed a band with some French musicians. They named it F.T.W. It remams a secret what this stands for. However after about five good years in France Sean returned to England to help his ill father to run the family business.
Sean’s girlfriend at the time gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and so Sean became a father. They called their daughter Charlotte. But just like so many other relationships, Sean with Charlotte’s mother was not to last.
Sean concentrated on work, enjoyed his bike and also took up Scuba diving.Then one day whilst on a diving holiday in Egypt, a young attractive woman caught his eye in the hotel lobby.
Her name was Zhenya!
Mick Lake
The date was 28th January 1964 in the city of Leeds, Yorkshire, England. The day that Brenda Lake, wife to Delan Walcott Phygara Augustine Lake (better known as Wally), gave birth on a bus to their second son. They named me Michael Joseph.
As a young child I was painfully shy. I had a speech impediment, so few people could fully understand what I was saying most of the time. Later, after time spent with a therapist, this was diagnosed as a lazy tongue. I now exercise my tongue frequently to prevent lapsing into incomprehensible slurred gibberish, although still feel isolated and misunderstood most weekends.
I grew up with my older brother, John Anthony, in an area called Whitkirk. Along with our friends we built dens, started fires, broke windows and all the usual antics related to estate life. I was 11 years old and joined my very first band called ‘Together’. I played an electric fan operated organ but soon realised at this early age that the guitar had to be my chosen companion, deserving my love and faith to guide me through the years on the rock ‘n’ roll highway to God knows where.
I started writing songs and in 1976 wrote a Christmas carol entitled ‘He came and he’ll come again’ for the school Christmas concert. However, when I plugged my guitar into my Tube Screamer distortion pedal the Headmaster decided the concert programme was too long and one composition would have to be omitted. No prize for guessing whose.
My early influences included Slade, Wizard, The Partridge Family, Benny Hill, T.Rex, The Goodies, Kojak. Then later, as a teenager I discovered punk, though I can’t claim to have made any discovery, it was more of an introduction. John Schoffield was a short kid with a corflick who no one took any notice of, until one day when he turned up at school with a copy of God Save The Queen by The Sex Pistols. In my eyes his cool rating went up ten fold. For the following 5 or 6 years I spent my money on building my record collection. Bands such as Gang of Four; Siousie & The Banshees; Killing Joke; UK Subs; The Dead Boys; Bauhaus; Crass; The Mekons; The Cramps, to name just a few. There were hundreds more worth mentioning. For me it was a magical time of self expression. Any punk could be in a band and most of them were. Some talented, some shite, but all buzzing from the same energy, sharing the same dream and taking full advantage of the freedom that the punk revolution offered.
At about the age of 15 I started my first real, serious band. It was called ‘Function 3’ and played many gigs in and around Leeds, the most memorable being at The F.Club. The Professionals were meant to be playing but Steve Jones (ex-Sex Pistols guitarist) disappeared in a whisky bottle somewhere. We went on to play a short set even though we had no drummer at the time. Paul Cook (ex- Sex Pistols drummer) stepped forward and offered to play drums for us but after a quick on stage discussion we decided to decline his offer and he skulked off with his tail between his legs. Sorry Paul.
I left school at the age of 16 to find stardom but instead found Seacroft Council Housing Office where I worked in the tenancy department, filing and swearing back at members of the public on the other end of a phone. If Gipton is the arsehole of Leeds then Seacroft is the shit clinging to it. This kind of life just wasn’t for me. After 4 dismal months I walked out and never returned. Instead I embarked upon a journey into the world of the northern Working Man’s Club circuit as an entertainer in a pop duo with friend Craig Sharp, called ‘Undercover’. We performed hits from the 60s to the 80s. Such classics as ‘Do You Really Want To Hurt Me’; ‘I Just Called To Say I Love You’ and ‘My Ding-a-ling’. We had the suits, we had the moves. The housewives loved us and the husbands paid for our drinks. The northern clubs can be a tough patch, but for three years life was good. We eventually split up when Craig decided to end his glittering career in pop music to become a greengrocer. A wise man.
It was at this point in my life when I was first introduced to Sean Carr, a lanky 18 year old market cobbler who wanted to sing. I was drafted into a rock band called ‘Paris In The Fall’. After a short while we had a solid line-up consisting of Sean ‘Snake’ Carr on vocals; John ‘The Doc’ McMorris on bass; Paul ‘H.K.Harry’ Hazelgrave on rhythm guitar; Simon ‘Dog Mad’ Masters on drums and myself, Micky ‘Psycho’ Lake on lead guitar. We played up and down England for the next three or four years, from party to party, spreading mayhem and leaving carnage in our trail. These were some of my best years but like most band do, we eventually decided to go our separate ways for reasons that I now can’t remember. Over the next decade I played with many bands including The Butter Cookies; Headcorn; Charlotte; Stevie Vayne & The Slaves; Des The Miner; Louie Lucas & The Psychomafia and also performed several times alongside the legendary Johnny Thunders, of The New York Dolls, shortly before his suspicious death. God rest his soul. We miss you Johnny.
The dance scene exploded in England and the shock wave reached everyone. Outdoor parties, raves, traveller sights, there was music pumping out everywhere. For the next ten years or so I put my beloved guitar to rest to be replaced by a computer and focussed upon programming dance music. The technological whirlpool sucked me in further and further. I was hooked. Keyboard player, Adam Smith, and myself formed a band named Big Disco Risk which later developed into a project called Oochi. We played our own brand of dance and chilled vibes and became very popular, playing in clubs and parties mainly around Yorkshire. The live Oochi show was something to behold as it included, amongst other things, 12 UV painted dancers in weird costumes, fire breathers, angle grinders, giant fish, trapeze artist, nudity, bizarre projections, an alien, an electric crutch and a 2 metre high dancing penis. The experience is one that people still talk about to this day when I visit my home town. We released 3 singles and 1 album titled ‘Filmed In Technicolor’, then nature called for Adam and we took time out for him and his lovely wife Jackie to raise a beautiful family. Adam is an amazing bloke and taught me a lot. Cheers Dude.
Now we’re virtually up to date. I met Sean after many years. He had not changed and was still just as keen to play rock ‘n’ roll. Then after many nights of sharing jokes in the boozer he proposed that I move to Ukraine to start a band there. Of course, this to me seemed crazy, but I was persuaded to visit Kiev and spend a month working with musicians to see if I would enjoy it or not. At first I hated it, but after a couple of weeks started to realise the appeal. After a few months of travelling back and forth between countries I decided to take the plunge and move to Kiev to live. It’s not easy but I’m attempting to make a living from music in Ukraine. In reality, we are nothing more than a bunch of guys enjoying playing and having fun. We never aimed to be the most amazingly original band in the world. We are rock ‘n’ rollers. We can only hope that people enjoy what we play. Beyond that we have no control. We like to party and have a good laugh, and maybe you do too. So, remember, God gave rock ‘n’ roll to us, you just have to let it into your soul. Let’s see how the party goes!
TO BE CONTINUED.
Sergij Ozeryan
I was born on 16-th December. I began taking an interest in music early in life. At pre-school age I sculpted little men with guitars out of plasticine. I made my first guitar with my own hands, took an axe and shaved a parody of the frame out of a plank. The finger-board was a piece of an old box and the cords were made of concertina wire from an old iron. The second one was made in the same way. But I gave it to my friend (also a guitarist). The third things we have made were drums – empty paint tins and cymbals - pots. Also there was a female vocalist with a "skipping-rope" microphone. That was my first band.
I did well at school. I liked the more scientific subjects. As I studied at a soviet school during jawing communist congresses and foodstuffs programs, as well as bans on normal music, the spirit of rebellion began to awaken in me slowly but surely. I started to compose my music. I played at school evening parties for senior students and at dance evenings (which was not welcomed and encouraged at the school).
Nevertheless after school I all the same entered a technician’s college, the College of Marine Engineers in Odessa. After the first year I was mustered for the army where I understood what home, friends, friendship, native land (not confuse with motherland) meant. After military service I studied one term more and then I gave studies up. I didn’t turn out to be an engineer.
I entered Mykolayiv School of Culture. I successfully graduated from it. From there as a matter of fact my musical career began. I played in many bands. A lot of bad and good ones...
I wouldn’t like to speak about bad things, but about good ones next time.
Though I am pretty fed up with those humming girls and belling boys. Music must be real. WITH BALLS.
ROCK-n-ROLL!!!
Volomyr Butiaiev
This story began on the 4th of July 1972.
I was born and it’s started rolling ...
I grew up in the cosy south city of Mykolayiv, in the industrial area, in the residential blocks, which would be called a slum area now but in childhood it seemed just that was the centre of the Earth.
There were of course all kinds of people so I had to learn to stand up for myself, at first with my neighbours then block against block, it seemed that was the right way, because in my childhood there were no Play stations, mobile networks or Internet. There were our gathering spots, sport, music and CPSU in which for some reason people didn\'t believe and were not welcome to. This way we lived: on even days - music, on odd days - training, in the evenings - friends gatherings. I had to become adult very early in all senses of this word. In general life was busy. At the end of the 8th form my sister was born, who filled my life with many pleasant colours and moments. Our parents are very united and loving people, therefore since my childhood I was very sure of myself, when you feel the family spirit - this always encourages and strengthen you!!!
After the 8th form we moved to a flat, and I entered the railway technical college, by the way - a very musical institution. There were always a lot of people in the assembly hall, for that time there was a decent gear, well, and cultural events naturally went on «in the small room behind the assembly hall».
Here Rock’n’Roll began!!!
We played blues, hard, heavy .... in general all. Time passed in an interesting and learning way. Then in Mykolayiv a Rock club was opened, here bands from all around the city gathered, did gigs for themselves and prepared for our first festival. I played in a band named «Abandoned castle», and our whole repertoire was very “close to the bone” because of the texts. At that time it seemed to the organizers that our texts were too rude and they advised us to change the repertoire, but we agree neither with their opinion nor with their advice and gave out everything we wanted! It was funny everybody liked it.
After the technical college the band «Gaier George» appeared, in which, in consequence, 8 happy years of my life passed. We rehearsed in a small room, at NSI (Mykolayiv Shipbuilding Institute) together with Kostia and Valera Meladze (Big Russian pop stars). Their band was called then «Moon and Revolution». They were elder of course and correspondingly at that time already well-known in Mykolayiv. Meetings with them were always very interesting. They always helped us in our creative work as they could, never refused if a practical advice was required!!!
But everything good sooner or later ends. Kostia and Valera left for Moscow. Our vocalist and leader, Oleg Gorshkov, also made it in Moscow and formed the band there called «Dreaming».
Having been left alone, we didn\'t know what to do. I tried myself at many things but this didn\'t produce considerable results. I couldn\'t find myself (at that moment), I understood that I couldn\'t devote myself to anything, which wasn\'t to my liking.
And then in 2001 my beloved daughter Alexandra was born!
Having realized and meditated a lot, I moved to Kyiv. Being already here I met Ozerian Sergey (guitar solo), Tarasov Bogdan (bass), and Alik Ø. We started a project called «Lazy Town». During one of the several evening pub concerts we met Sean Carr. Sean offered to make a try at rehearsing together a couple of songs. We tried. We liked it. So, we decided not to stop at it. Sean invited his old friend from Leeds, Mick Lake very soon after our first rehearsals. And here began DVS band\'s history, which you can observe yourselves if you wish. You are welcome!!!!
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The date was 28th January 1964 in the city of Leeds, Yorkshire, England. The day that Brenda Lake, wife to Delan Walcott Phygara Augustine Lake (better known as Wally), gave birth on a bus to their second son. They named me Michael Joseph. 
This story began on the 4th of July 1972.