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King Rat

About Me


Heart wrenching guitars, soaring vocals and sinewy synth lines strapped to a freight train rhythm section. Influences include Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, Queen and Pink Floyd.
"If rock operatics are your thing, stick around. When they take the Muse template down a dark, dance-rock alley, they sound truly menacing" (NME)
Current album Lightning in the Mind, including a video of the title track, is available at all gigs. New E.P. Telescopes and Telephones has just been released and new album is out in the Autumn.
KING RAT
Breaths of mist and fog sank into the streets of a London music was forgetting, lost from sight and sound through the dark, brickwork cracks and cold, chattering drains. Dickensian descriptions and the ghosts of millennia swirled in the tea-dark rainwater that coursed through the labyrinthine channels. Waiting and growing, it fed on the portentous stew, stored up the emotions and passions of the great city's underbelly and listened.

Behind closed bedroom doors, vinyl grooves wore down, strings were played into dulled retirement to be replaced by countless others and determined plans took shape. History passed like a hand over the eyes of a corpse, expecting only silent complicity but there was a twitch, the glimmer of a steely eye and then... then the King Rat bit back.

It was time to play spine splintering rock in the grubby collection of venues where guitars spit defiant bolts of tuneful insolence at the mundane. It fell to five spellbound mortals to take up the fight and yeah, it might just be a shadow but remember, walk through the capital of England and you are never very far from a rat.

Queen, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead and Pink Floyd echo loudly in the band's music while the thrust of living in the present can be heard as synth sinews strap the tunes to a freight train rhythm section. Sailing out like ripples from some pool-plunged stone, vocal scapes elevate the concert of energies into the blue and, ever true, ever hopeful, the King Rat repertoire takes the listener to a better place.

However you word it, on stage and disc, King Rat may just be the best band in London.

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Member Since: 12/01/2006
Band Website: www.kingrat.net
Band Members: Angus Hastie (lead vocals and guitar)
Matt De Bono (lead guitar and backing vocals)
Sara Wax (keyboards)
Christian McNally (bass)
Garry Cappuccini (drums and backing vocals)
Influences: Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Marillion, Queen
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

King Rat Live at the BBC

We're playing a two hour rock spectacular at the BBC to be filmed in glorious technicolor (does anyone say that anymore?).Email [email protected] if you'd like to come and we'll put you down on the ent...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:41:00 GMT

KING RAT ON CHANNEL 4 - PLEASE VOTE NOW

London's most unsigned rock band King Rat need your help to get onto Channel 4.http://orangeunsignedact.co.uk/acts/king-ratAll you have to do is:1. Register now (it's quick & easy).2. Click "vote"...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:00 GMT

New King Rat songs

Three new songs are now available to listen to from this myspace page. You can download these and two more new tracks from:http://www.intomusic.co.uk/scripts/artpagenew.asp?ArtID =2029We hope to have ...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:55:00 GMT

new tracks available to download

New King Rat recordings are available to download from http://www.kingrat.net/music.htmlCheers,Matt
Posted by on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:01:00 GMT

Vote to see King Rat at the Aylesbury Showcase

Thanks to everyone who's voted so far; we're currently number 2 in the popular vote to play at what looks like being a great event ( http://www.aylesburyshowcase.co.uk ).If you haven't voted yet, you ...
Posted by on Thu, 10 May 2007 17:01:00 GMT

support slots

The Rats have some ace support slots lined up, with Ray Wilson (ex Genesis / Stiltskin) and Marillion. Check out the upcoming shows section for more info...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:43:00 GMT

King Rat Headline the Barfly - Friday 5th January

PRESS RELEASE - Thursday 14th December 2006   King Rat Press & Music Industry Showcase at The Barfly on Friday 5th January 2007   London rock band King Rat are playing a m...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:07:00 GMT

Free CDs!

Quick reminder that anyone who turns up to our Clapham Grand gig this Friday, 12 May, will get a free copy of the brand new King Rat cd, hot off the press. Be there or be... cd-less.
Posted by on Mon, 08 May 2006 03:53:00 GMT

gigs gigs gigs....

Loads of new gigs coming up over the next couple of months, including important shows at the Camden Barfly (Sunday 23rd April, 3pm) and the Clapham Grand (Friday 12th May, 8.30pm). Come along and che...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:48:00 GMT

Year of the Dog

...and of the Rat. A new album in production, lots of new songs under way. Anyone who wants an album, visit www.kingrat.net and I'm sure our delivery department will sort you out.
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:30:00 GMT