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Kill It Kid

Formed for little over a year, Kill It Kid make for a stand-out proposition in today’s musical climate, drawing comparison at times to Mumford & Sons, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa and Zeppelin. Fronted by the gorgeous two-part vocal harmonies of lead singers Chris Turpin and Stephanie Ward, the intimate nature of the songs is rendered all the more powerful by the understated interplay between the pair. Buttressed with strings, keys and slide guitar, Kill It Kid blend delta blues, roots and blistering, unapologetic rock’n’roll to powerful effect, recalling Gomez and The Raconteurs while their diverse influences ensure they sound very much their own band. Aged between 20 and 22, the band are in possession of a musical wisdom beyond their years, and it’s a surprising and wonderful moment when one first hears Chris’ voice.

Forming at university, the seed of the band developed from vocalist Chris Turpin’s solo gigs, at which he was occasionally joined by drummer Marc Jones and bassist Adam Timmins. Over time, the band was expanded, settling on it’s current line up by February 2008, and, following a tip off John Parish (PJ Harvey, The Eels) was put in touch with the band electing to record a 4 track ep of songs with the band which became their debut.

The new single and forthcoming album is produced, mixed and recorded by Ryan Hadlock (Johnny Flynn, The Strokes, The Gossip) and was recorded in Seattle, at the same studio Fleet Foxes laid down their debut. Already they have supported Ipso Facto, The Virgins, Phoebe Killdear from Nouvelle Vague and Pete and the Pirates.



Upcoming Dates:
16th July Korova, Liverpool
28th July Rockfeedback@ The Lexington, London
30th July Start The Bus, Bristol
02nd August Y-Not Festival, Derby
06th August Academy, Dublin*
07th August Auntie Annies, Belfast*
08th August Oran Mor, Glasgow*
09th August Ruby Lounge, Manchester*
10th August Scala, London*
27th August Bloody Awful Poetry @Madam JoJo’s

For a limited period (until 21 July) you can download the Kill it Kid track "Date It The Day" exclusive to the Fly53 Blog

DJ Nookie

One of the leading lights in the Drum & Bass scene, DJ Nookie, aka Cloud Nine / Second Vision / New Balance (along with Blame), is London / Herts DJ / producer / artist / remixer. Above DJ Nookie hooks up in Greece with Fly53 Resistance member Tasos Ragavis.

Victeam DJs and Simian Mobile Disco

Simian Mobile Disco are an English production and remix team that were formed from the ashes of Simian in 2005 its members are James Ford and Jas Shaw. In addition to his work with Simian Mobile Disco, James Ford is a producer and has worked bands such as the Arctic Monkeys, Peaches and Klaxons. Simian Mobile Disco are also part of the group of DJ's knwn as DJs Victeam who open Bugged Out parties in Italy. Victeam have also opened for Chemical Brothers and at Bugged Out Milan.

Image below is Jas of Simian Mobile Disco top image is Victeam members.

Bristol Streetart

In the area of St Werburghs in Bristol there is a tunnel that is used to show off the local talent of street artists. The tunnel is situated underneath the local rail lines and is the only way into this unusual and quirky area, with a pub, cafe, city farm and a load of self build houses this is a really interesting area. There is an ever changing cycle of artists spraying there latest pieces only for the next artist to come along and do his piece a couple of weeks later. Here is a snap shot of this tunnel at any particular moment, July 09.

You can check out more of the St Werburghs, streetart at the Fly53 Facebook Fanpage

Long live Bristol street art!!!

Radio Clit

Euro beat doctors Radio Clit are Johan Karlberg and Etienne Tron, whose partnership first hatched into the world as an Internet radio show broadcasting out of London a couple of years back. Their mix of house, disco, B-club, grime and just about everything else. Later they made they name with podcasts, and DJing at club nights such as Hollertronix in Paris with Diplo and MIA and the Vice pub, The Old Blue Last in London.

Curently The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya and Radio Clit) album is out in September and their single with Vampire Weekend is out in July in the US and a bit laters here in the UK.

Roots Manuva @ Gladstonbury

Roots Manuva brings his socially conscious and musically experimental British hip hop to the Jazz World stage @ Glastonbury this year and his man on the decks was rocking the Fly53 Bumper Stuff jacket.

You can check 28 minutes of Roots Manuva highlights over at the BBC site.