It’s not often you get to experience intelligent pop music in today’s music charts especially from a group barely out of their teens. Breaking the trend are quirky 5-piece male rock-pop band,
The Special Ks.
The Special Ks formed whilst at music college in Brighton and quickly took the region by storm packing out local venues before heading around the UK spreading their sounds nationwide.
The Brighton based team behind the development of The Kooks spotted The Special Ks early on and booked them onto a nation wide school tour where the bands appeal to young pop-orientated fans proved a massive hit and their following really began to build.
Still selling out down south and now making waves nation wide, The Special Ks entered this years BREAKOUT FESTIVAL competition up against 3000 other budding acts and went on to win! First prize saw them perform at the festival in the Maldives this December, where the event was broadcast on MTV and webcast by AOL.
Having been voted winners by a panel of industry figures as well as public votes online, this year The Special Ks will also be embarking on a national UK tour at a number of O2 academy venues.
Currently the band are in the studio turning their demos into the records they have longed to create collaborating with producer Julian Simmons (The Guillemotts/Brinkman) to achieve a sound that more than competes with likes of today’s chart topping international pop acts.
These young men have a talent, energy and freshness which will take 2009 by storm.
Watch this space….
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(June 2009) - Summer has arrived and the Ks are soon to embark on a tour across the UK! We will be playing a number of venues in a whole host of different cities so get down to a show and come say hello! In the meantime we are writing brand new tracks and working on them with producer J-Bat up in London :) We are also running our competition where we have loads of goodies to give away to a randomly selected winner from anyone who signs up to our mailing list! All you have to do is either send your email address and your name to
[email protected] or you can text 'thespecialks' plus your email address to 60300! Alternatively you can simply sign up on one of the sheets that are distributed at all of our shows. Enjoy the sunshine and see you on tour soon!x
(March 2009) - The new recordings are finally here! Help Me and Three Hundred Miles are back with a bang and sounding better than ever. Fresh from Din studios we have been working with producer J-Bat (Julian Simmons) who has helped shape a new sound and create the tracks that are now up on our profile :) We hope to release the new recordings as our first EP very sooon so don't go anywhere, it won't be long! We also had a brand new photoshoot this week in London where we had loads of fun running and jumping about all over the place :p A big thank you to Andrew for all his work, the pics will be up in the next few days! We're now focusing on writing new tunes and smashing the rehearsal studio every day before embarking on a UK tour in a couple of months... details to follow shortly! In the meantime, check out the tracks and our new videos that are up.. let us know what you think! Love, The Boys x
(January 2009) - A new year, and we're straight back to work writing and recording new tracks! We had an amazing experience in the Maldives playing a festival to over 4000 people, the first international festival of its kind ;p We have an album of pictures up from our time away, go check them out! This month we will be revisiting Din studios (where we recorded Happens To The Best Of Us) to produce two more tracks that we will be revealing to you all very soon :) We're all very excited for the year ahead with a whole host of live shows currently being planned across the UK. We look forward to seeing you sooon! The SKs x
(December 2008) - We have won this years Breakout Festival Final!! The gig took place in front of a sold out crowd at Islington Academy and through a combined vote made online, and also on the night by the crowd and various industry figures we managed to clinch 1st place :) We will now be flying out to the Maldives mid December to play the festival that will be featured on MTV and AOL. Next year we will also be on tour across the UK at a number of Carling Academy venues as well as playing a selection of dates in Europe. Thank you to everyone for your support, we will be back soon with more news of our plans for next year!
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