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King Of Spain

About Me

King Of Spain are a four piece hailing from Balham, South London. Their much anticipated debut album 'Battleships and Aeroplanes' is out now on pioneering Oxford label Shifty Disco.
Album track Bacon, which is a jangly and quirky song about childhood ambitions, has been selected by William Ravenscroft, (son of the late great John Peel) as one of his gems of 2008 and has already received airplay on Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 Music show this year.
King Of Spain, who have been together for 3 years, were featured on ShiftyDisco10, a triple CD compilation album celebrating the Indie label’s tenth birthday back in 2007. Throughout January 2009 they will be taking the A&R reigns on the Shifty Disco Download Club which means they are choosing all the weekly releases.
They also run 'flux=rad', a night at London's legendary 12 Bar Club, aimed at showcasing the best in lo-fi/alternative music.

'BATTLESHIPS AND AEROPLANES'


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/5/2005
Band Website: kingofspain.co.uk
Band Members:

Bayly Pike - Vocals/Guitar

Tom Fleming - Guitar/Vocals

Adrian Mills - Bass/Vocals

Paul Denley - Drums/Percussion

email: [email protected]

press: [email protected]

Influences: The Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse, Pavement
Sounds Like:

"...welcome King Of Spain with open arms...this album stands as a homage to a great school of underground indie...awesome." NME 8/10

"Bright, jangly, thoughtful indie music that gets better and better with every listen. They have an LP out now called 'Battleships And Aeroplanes' on Shifty Disco records, which you'll be playing over and over again until everyone you know is sick of it and doesn't like you anymore." William Ravenscroft

"How am i going to describe this music? It's genius, no doubt, but what in the world does it sound like? Sea shanty rock? The Libertines take a holiday to the seashore? It defies description." Rocksellout.com

"All in all a promising debut. Catchy varied tuneage coupled with lyrics that don’t make you wince. The King is dead, long live the king" Subba-Cultcha 4/5

"Playing a weird mix of indie rock and sea shanties, these guys are sort of like a British Decemberists, and are definitely one to watch" Spoonfed.co.uk

"It is King of Spain whose star burns the brightest" Gigwise.com

"Indie rock crossed with Johnny Cash with a grunge Ian Botham on bass - awesome!" Myriad Creatures

"As close to underground indie-dom as you can get" Musicomh.com

"These four blokes from South London have captured that raw Britishness of a Libertines record better than twenty other bands who were trying harder could do" Bearded Magazine

Record Label: Shifty Disco (UK)
Volvox Music (France)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

'Come Play With Me' tour...

Pioneering Oxford based independent label, Shifty Disco is set to have some fun this summer as its artists embark on a Come Play With Me Tour! The artists taking part are critically acclaimed indie-ro...
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 09:44:00 GMT

Full national album release today!

hola a todos,Today sees the full national release of our debut album 'Battleships and Aeroplanes' on Shifty Disco records. As well as being stocked in HMV (and a few indie) stores across the UK, you'l...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:55:00 GMT

NME album review

We're in this week's copy of NME! And they've only bloody gone and given us 8/10!It's a fab review with not a bad word said and has the joint highest rating along with a few other bands including Dove...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:13:00 GMT

K.O.S on BBC 6 Music this Sun night/Mon morning

Hi all, As promised here are the broadcast details for our album track 'Menagerie' on BBC 6 Music: BBC Introducing with Tom Robinson01.00-03.00  Sun night/Mon morning 16th March 2009 You can listen to...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:02:00 GMT

K.O.S on BBC 6 Music....again

Menagerie will be played on Tom Robinson's show, probably very, very early Monday morning (16th March 2009) but we'll let you know when confirmed.Paulx
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:24:00 GMT

FULL NATIONAL ALBUM RELEASE APRIL 6TH

...as above!
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:59:00 GMT

Xmas single

Hi Folks,  You can now bag yourself a copy of our Christmas download single "42 Xmas songs" from here: http://www.shiftydisco.co.uk/mp3/210.html Merry Christmas! KOS
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:03:00 GMT

K.O.S on BBC 6 Music

Hi Folks 'Bacon' will be played on BBC 6 Music on Sunday 4th Jan 2009. It's part of William Ravenscroft's gems of 2008 on BBC introducing with Tom Robinson. It'll be played sometime between 00:00 - 02...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:14:00 GMT

Some very kind words

Here are some very kind words written by William Ravenscroft on the site unpredictableporridge.com "On their myspace page King Of Spain have a couple of ex-Hefner people listed among friends, and that...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:18:00 GMT

Germany footage

short but sweet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkJvce3fEog
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 02:30:00 GMT