BBC Radio One gave the Discopolis remix of Loosen Up a spin late last night! Ally McCRae played it last in his 2 hour show of new music which is well worth checking out (as always!). Have a listen here or paste the link below into your browser. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hj79y
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As promised, here is the download link for the FREE download copy of the Discopolis remix of Loosen Up. We hope you enjoy and that it whets your appetite to get the whole set (JD Twitch Optimo, Fiction & Funky Transport to follow) when they come out in June. This track will only be available [...]
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Check out the link directly HERE or alternatively read below. So previously we mentioned our upcoming Remix EP and details of its impending release. We cant wait to let you hear it so if you cant wait to hear it don’t worry! The Scotsman blog site for new music (Radar) has been offering a sneak [...]
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We have always had a vested interest in cross-overs in music, remixes and collaborations between artists and view it as a healthy thing. As a band we all listen to a fair amount of electronic music and this was especially true since the start of our time running the Dirty Hearts Club club-night. So recently [...]
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We are delighted to announce that we will be playing as main tour support to We Were Promised Jetpacks on two dates of their upcoming Scottish tour. The guys are one of our favorite bands so its with a big smile on our faces that we can announce we will play with the guys on [...]
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Into July now and we have a couple of shows we are holding back to announce for then but for now we can say we will be kicking things off in style on the 1st July at Kelburn Garden Party Festival in Largs. The event runs on the 30th June / 1st July – we [...]
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We are delighted to also add today that we will be performing at this years 2012 Go North event in Inverness. Taking place on the 6th/7th of June, the event is a showcase for Scottish bands in Inverness to play to people in the music industry be it labels, media, management etc and its a [...]
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A highlight of last summer for us and an event we were praying we would get to play again this year is the Insider Festival in Aviemore. Held on the 15th to 17th of June in the grounds of a country estate in Aviemore the event boasts one of the most eclectic line ups you [...]
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On the weekend of the 8th to the 10th of June several thousand mountain biking nutters come to Fort William to enjoy the yearly mountain biking world championships which are held there. This year they have decided to put on a festival (Downhill Downtown) to co-incide with the event and we are happy to say [...]
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For a long time (nearly 6 years) you would likely have found the collective members of The Little Kicks in Aberdeens Snafu nightclub on most Thursday nights and the early hours of Friday morning. Snafu was/ is the home of the Dirty Hearts Club which was the bands own clubnight which after 6 years ceased [...]
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Over the last few weeks we have had several bookings for festivals this Summer – which is exciting! The first of these will be a one day event on the 5th of May at Brew At The Bog festival on Bogbain Farm in Inverness. This is Brewdog’s (craft beer brewers who are slowly taking over [...]
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It is now suddenly April and we are moving closer and closer to Summer which is good! We still have plenty of things to come before Summer and still even have a batch of pretty banging remixes to share with you once they are ready (more on that to follow) and a possible single planned [...]
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So, as of Monday this week our scheduled 2 night stand at the Celler in Aberdeen has been sold out! Which is great and we are really looking forward to it! Last night we had a run through the tracks from both the 1st album (“Boxing Clever”) and the 2nd album (“The Little Kicks) which [...]
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We previously hinted at a special Aberdeen show and we have just realized its all over our Facebook and Twitter but we didn’t post it on here aside from a mention in the gigs section. So here is the scoop. We wanted to play somewhere small and different in our home-town where we could take [...]
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We have just been told that Friday night’s Edinburgh show at Electric Circus with The 10:04s is now SOLD OUT! So hopefully all of you guys who were planning on coming have already got tickets! If you were planning on seeing us play but hadnt got tickets yet, don’t worry as we are back on [...]
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So somehow this year is flying by and we are already at March! Last month we spent a bit of time starting to time again, prepping the upcoming remix release and also played a couple of well received club-night shows here and there but things are about to become much busier with immediate effect! We [...]
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We in The Little Kicks camp are massively chuffed to announce we have been nominated for an award at the 2012 Scottish Alternative Music Awards for Best Live Act! This is a pretty nice thing to be involved in and the bands we are being nominated alongside certainly are good company (We Were Promised Jetpacks, [...]
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We kicked 2012 off in style, as im sure you will have seen, by supporting Frightened Rabbit at their Aberdeen show of their recent small venues / last minute January jaunt. The show was reviewed by website Daily Dischord who gave us a sterling 9/10 for our efforts. You can read the review on the [...]
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We are proud to announce we have been named as one of Radar Scotsman’s Top 5 to watch for 2012 alongside Discopolis, Happy Particles, The Machine Room and PAWS (all top bands!) Check the article podcast and a stream of “Far Too Honest” HERE or paste the link below into your browser. http://radar.scotsman.com/viewpost.aspx?id=622
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Our album and the band in general have been included in the top 5 for January in established magazine Music News magazine. Always worth a read you can read the full publication HERE or paste the below link into your browser: http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1vb72/MUSICNEWSScotland/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http://free.yudu.com/item/details/462779/MUSIC-NEWS-Scotland
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Happy New Year! We are delighted to announce that our first show of 2012 will be on Friday 20th January at The Tunnels in Aberdeen. We will be playing with one of our favorite bands Frightened Rabbit who are doing a small venue show in Aberdeen as part of a tour to road test new [...]
Read more →As previously mentioned in an older post, we finished our 2011 with a New Years Eve show at the AECC (Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre) alongside White Lies, Twin Atlantic & The View in our home-town. In previous years Aberdeen has had a street party event until a few years ago when the council ceased [...]
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