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 […]
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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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Shortly before Xmas we were contacted by the Sun newspaper who got in touch to say that they would like to include us among a selection of nine other bands as their choice of top tips for 2012! We were delighted to be asked to be involved and went down to Glasgow to get our […]
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The Scotsman featured us in their end of year round up and as a band of 2011. Its a pretty big deal for us as they are an institution in Scotland and great for supporting new music. Read the article below.
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The year of 2011 was undoubtedly a great year for us, we have been really happy with the feedback and press for our new album. We capped off a great year by playing a show in our hometown at the AECC (Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre) which was ace (more on that later) but in […]
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Steven recently guested on the Scotsman Radar Podcast to play some of our favorite bands of the North East, talk a bit about our album and give “Loosen Up” a spin. Have a listen on the link below. The choices made were tracks from CS Buchan, IndianRedLopez, Velvet Audio and JJ Bull – all of […]
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The Scotsman’s Under The Radar website which covers Scottish and UK music (with impeccable taste we think) has named us as one of their bands of 2011. Needless to say we were pretty chuffed as theses guys know their stuff, you can read the article below or click on the link at the bottom to […]
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The Little Kicks new album has been included in respected Scottish Music website Kowalskiy’s Top Ten albums of 2011. We came in at a very impressive number 3! Alongside some great names including our pals IndianRedLopez – you can read the full article HERE and our entry below: #3. The Little Kicks – The Little […]
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As part of good friends of ours (Scott Anderson + Co) university project which they have based around things for the band, we filmed a couple of Acoustic Session videos for album tracks “Anti Work Song” and “Before Today”. You can check out both below or on the Videos page of the website. Click on […]
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Last Friday we were featured quite flatteringly in The Sun newspaper’s “Something For The Weekend” magazine. See photo for a snippet of the article!!! We will post a full transcription shortly but basically Jim Gellatly said some very nice things! Keep an eye out for another feature on us at the end of the year […]
Read more →http://scottishfiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/scottish-fiction-best-of-2011-singles.html Scottish Blogspot Scottish Fiction have named “Call Of Youth” alongside singles by Jetpacks, Twilight Sad, Bill Wells + Aidan Moffat, Bwani Junction, PAWS and FOUND. Were pretty chuffed! Read below or use the link above / click HERE Scottish Fiction – Best Of 2011 – Singles Best is a subjective term, which should really […]
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While we were on tour we did a session for Jim Gellatly’s In Demand Uncut show. Previous guests include The Vaccines, Foster The People,Artic Monkeys and Ed Sheeran! Listen to live acoustic/piano versions of “Before Today”, “Do Something New” and “The First Place” HERE. Or paste the link below into your browser. http://www.clyde1.com/on-air/the-little-kicks-2011/
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Last week Steven did a fairly detailed interview with blog site Curious Joe about the new album, 2012 plans and touched on our previous release “Boxing Clever”. You can read it HERE Or scroll below. [Interview] The Little Kicks I’m often not a fan of relatively small bands releasing albums, but that’s just me being a […]
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Thanks to Vic Galloway who played Anti Work Song on his show last night on BBC Radio 1/ BBC Radio Scotland. You can listen here – were about 25 mins in but there’s a lot of treats on there so stick it on from the start if you can! Listen HERE
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The rather lovely blog Peenko have done an interview with Steven about the album and our current plans as well as a bit of background on the band. It also includes a wee list of what we were listening to during the making of our new record and a bit of info on the bands […]
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We are pleased to announce that we will be supporting Broken Records on their upcoming Scottish Tour in December. We will play 3 shows with the guys in Dundee (8th), Dunfermline (9th) and Aberdeen (11th). Full details are on our LIVE page along with ticket-links and show times. We have always been big fans of […]
Read more →We also received news today that “Do Something New” has been selected as Track Of The Month by the Under the Radar column in The Scotsman. The write up was very favorable to the new album but gave specific credence to that track which is fine by us. Read the full article below.
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Well respected and always informative publication “Is this Music?” have given our new album an incredible review (it seems they completely got the record!) on their site. Awarding it 4****/5 the review is a fine read and can be read below from the relevant link or from the text underneath. http://www.isthismusic.com/little-kicks-3 LITTLE KICKS THE LITTLE […]
Read more →The Little Kicks – The Little Kicks Album Available on CD Format from One Up Records, HMV (Aberdeen) Available to download from I-Tunes, Amazon and all other major online retailers. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-little-kicks/id467244040 Also available to buy on CD along with other merchandise from http://www.thelittlekicks.bigcartel.com/product/the-little-kicks-by-the-little-kicks-new-album
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