SMASH HITS OUT NOW!!
AVAILABLE ONLINE - FROM OUR FRIENDS AT FENCE RECORDS
www.fencerecords.com/shop.php
Just click on "Kid Canaveral" in the artist menu
ALSO ON SALE AT:
Avalanche Records - Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
Avalanche Records - Dundas Street, Glasgow
Monorail - Kings Court, Glasgow
Unknown Pleasures - South Street, St Andrews
Priced at £2.99 - includes a free CD-R copy of tracks
Kid Canaveral
Smash Hits
b/w So Close To Beautiful
RELEASE DATE : MONDAY, 5th MARCH 2007
FORMAT : 7†(with free CD-R)
LABEL : STRAIGHT TO VIDEO
CATALOGUE : STV 001
Kid Canaveral are two boys and two girls, who make indie-pop music you can sing along to.
Formed in 2003, in St Andrews, they are David MacGregor (voice & guitar), Dan Sheehy (drums), Kate
Lazda (voice & guitar), and Rose McConnachie (voice & bass).
Over the past few years they’ve been busy writing and perfecting their noble craft, playing a barrage
of live shows; notable gigs include opening for Joy Zipper, KT Tunstall, King Creosote ... and even the
legend(?!) that is Tiffany. They tried to say hello, but, sadly, were not allowed in her dressing room.
2006 saw the band relocating to Edinburgh, and performing at a number of festivals including The
Wickerman Festival, The Fence Homegame and Glasgow’s ‘La Fete de la Musique’ - as well as receiving
national radio airplay on Jim Gellatly’s XFM show and on Vic Galloway’s BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio
Scotland shows.
Their debut single, Smash Hits contains everything you’d ever want in a pop song - two storytelling
verses (replete with mild swear-words) a “He said/She said†chorus, a hand-clapping middle-eight and
a po-going guitar solo that is so jauntily infectious, you’ll break your neck after the third listen. Magic.
Upon hearing the song BBC Scotland saw fit to make a music video for BBC 2’s The Music Show
- which was broadcast on 19th November 2006. The video plays out the song’s story: Boy meets girl, girl likes
boy, boy likes girl but not her taste in music, girl gets pissed off ...
"Stick it up your arse /
I don't care if you think my music-taste's shite"
You must own this record - if only for the fact that it is surely the only single in existence that
name-checks both indie-angst kings Erase Errata and housewives' favourite Neil Sedaka. The 7†is limited to
500 copies, and each one comes with a free hand-stamped CD-R of the two songs featured on it. Ooh.
"Evocative lyrics, super indie guitars and some striking girl/guy vocal dynamics, 'the Kids really are alright" Jock Rock
"Juicy, chewy pop-kids to savour, proving that life still twitches in this indie guitar-pop business." Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman
"It’s amazing how even their brand new pop-punk songs embed themselves in the brain, while single ‘Smash Hits’ could easily be just that." The List
"Kid Canaveral’s David MacGregor laments some poor bastard’s plight over this considered piece of up-tempo indie pop which echoes the Delgados at their most playful. Smash Hits is a refreshingly pleasant wee tune 4/5" - The Skinny
"Kid Canaveral’s debut single, Smash Hits, is the kind of joyous buzzsaw racket that’s so simple and so very effective you wonder why people don’t make it more often...They sound like they’re armed with the knowledge that music peaked in 1976 with the first Ramones album (although the Shop Assistants were pretty good) and consequently Smash Hits is the kind of dumb punk pop that so very few get right. Fewer still get it as right as this. Go and listen to them" - Fire Escape Talking
"Bouncy, quirky, often laugh-out-loud funny, 'Smash Hits' has, well smash hit written all over it. Plus it includes the line "stick it up your arse/I don't care if you think my music taste's shite". What more could you ask for? 4/5" Is This Music?
"a joyous, bouncy piece of classic Scottish indie-pop...an engaging, humorous story punchily delivered by an irrepressible wee tune." - Song, by Toad
"THE best thing to come out of St Andrews since KT Tunstall, the four-piece indie-poppers deserve just as much success...the sort of super-infectious melodies The Magic Numbers would give their bushy beards for...Picking out the best songs is a bit like trying to pick your favourite child: impossible." - Daily Record
"Their charisma lies in their self-consciousness...Kid Canaveral are a bit like The Breeders arguing about relationships with REM at a coffee morning organised by The Undertones. In other words, the kids are all right." - Barry Gordon, The Scotsman
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