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About Me

Murphys Kids live to rock. Their goal is to bring everyone into the experience from the folks at the bar to the fans up front. The rhythm section of guitar, bass, and drums thumps out the backbone while the horn section lays their smooth runs on top. Its all complimented by the dual vocal of Attaway and Charlet whos socially-savvy lyrics and anthemic melodies push crowds into a frenzied heat. In the last eight years Murphy's Kisd has played every all-ages club in Richmond and have completed three full tours of the east coast and the southeast. They were a featured artist for two years running on the SouthernSka Tour hosted by Southernska.com. They have also recorded and released three CDs that have been met with enthusiasm and have sold accordingly. They have headlined and supported at an array of venues. Club owners and promoters in and around the Richmond area continue to find how well MK works on bills with bands of regional and international fame such as Less Than Jake, the Suicide Machines, the Toasters, the Slackers, Fighting Gravity, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Mutemath,The Fray, Soldiers of Jah Army, Badfish, and the Pietasters.Journalists and fans alike are left asking, "Is that reggae or rock?" Their approach is both precise and brutal. As a band who wants to rock harder than all and groove even harder, they make their musical mark by becoming a hybrid of fast, catchy rock and deep, groovy reggae rhythms. They have a full set of reggae covers as well as 15 second hardcore songs. They have been compared to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and the Toasters. You will find everything in their CD players from old school reggae like Burning Spear and Bob Marley to new school progressive rock like the Mars Volta and Coheed and Cambria. With all the conjecture about what their sound is and what they are trying to do musically the bottom line is Murphys Kids brings it. Their paramount goal is for everyone to go home sweaty, exhausted and grinning from ear to ear.
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Music:

Member Since: 9/2/2005
Band Website: You're lookin at it!
Band Members: Reid Attaway - Guitar/Vocals
John Charlet - Vocals / Trumpet
Kelly Hazlett - Bass
DJ Kyriakides - Trombone
Nate Koch - Sax
Dave Gibson - Drums

Influences: Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Pietasters, The Slackers, Toots and the Maytals,Less Than Jake,NoFx,Bad Religion,Eastern Standard Time,Jackmove,Between the Buried and Me,Rx Bandits
Sounds Like: Music that satisfies the bottom.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Video and MAD SHOWS!

WOAH it’s been a minute since we’ve had a blog! We’ve had some kickass shows in Harrisonburg, Blacksburg, Va Beach and Farmville, THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME...
Posted by Murphy’s Kids on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:21:00 PST

Blacksburg and Farmville make my heart go pitter patter....

What's up you beautiful people!?! I just wanted to sit down and personally give everybody a taste of what we went through this weekend. Those of you who came out to the shows, brought...
Posted by Murphy’s Kids on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:24:00 PST

TWO NEW VIDEOS!

HEY EVERYONE! First off, I need to thank everyone who came out to Toad's Place AND Casey's on Friday night. Both shows were UNBELIEVABLY fun, it's great to have so many friends in Richmond and H...
Posted by Murphy’s Kids on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:32:00 PST

Anti-Corporate Video and cool information

Hey hey, here's the first song we played at Skalidays this year... THE ANTI-CORPORATE BEACH PARTY..... enjoy... check it out at Youtube for a little bit higher quality... Also, on the youtube site it...
Posted by Murphy’s Kids on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:52:00 PST

Posters? New Music? SHOWS?!

What's crackalackin everyone?! Murphy's Kids is stoked to have two great shows coming up! Richmond and Harrisonburg, we're bringin the rock to your doorstep!!! We're goin...
Posted by Murphy’s Kids on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:26:00 PST

SHOW AT TOAD’S PLACE

HEY EVERYONE! We just landed a spot on the Badfish, Passafire, Scotty Don't show at Toad's Place on January 25th... YES we are playing two shows in one day. It's GOING TO BE AWESOME! You c...
Posted by Murphy’s Kids on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:18:00 PST

Skalidays and new drummer

Hey Everyone,We wanted to shoot out a bulletin to thank everyone who came out to Skalidays 2007. This years show was the best to date by light-years. When it was all said and done, the fin...
Posted by Murphy’s Kids on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:25:00 PST

SKALIDAYS 2007!!!

HOLY SHIT! Thanks for reading this and being interested in Skalidays!!!!This year the line up is better than EVER with Maraschino, Neighborhood Friendly, The Fad, Patent Pending and, of course, Murphy...
Posted by Murphy’s Kids on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:18:00 PST

Virginia Beach Ska Punk Festival

SOOOOOOO as you all may have noticed we are playing a SWEET show down in VA Beach hosted by the fine fellows of Past Out! and The Peppermint Beach club... This show is going to be the best damn time y...
Posted by Murphy’s Kids on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:53:00 PST

Broken Bones Can't Stop the Rock!

What's the story everybody?! Lots has been going on since the last blog so let me catch you up! We were playing a lot of shows for a while. Then Eli (drums) broke his collar bo...
Posted by Murphy’s Kids on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:13:00 PST