*Please Note - This myspace is run by fans of KNS who are still traumatised and mourning the loss of an ace band. We still wear our dirty white t-shirts every day. If you have any old photos of the band that are better than the ones already up, please post them here OR message them to us. Cheers dudes
On with the Bio -
In September 2000, Michael Bromley, Tom Marshall, Neil Chow and Conor McGloin met at Ionian Studios, Bolton, for their first rehearsal as a band. We were called Kinesis, and if truth be told, we weren't great. For a start, Neil had never touched a drum kit before, despite his assurances to the contrary, and we only had the most basic of musical equipment to try and replicate the sound we had in our heads.
Two months and an extremely steep learning curve later, we recorded our first demo. It was named 'The Flowers Are Dead EP' after one of the five tracks recorded in the session. Contrary to popular rumour, this demo was never released as an EP, and we only printed around ten copies of it before realising we'd have to record a better demo in the near future. We carried on writing and practicing, waiting for our next chance to record some songs.
'Worship Yourself' began life as another five track demo. We recorded and mixed five songs in three days at Studio Studio, situated on the outskirts of Rochdale. After sending this demo to every address we could find, we returned to Studio Studio to record a further three tracks, making it an eight song mini-album. For the full story of how Worship Yourself was recorded and released, visit the Discography section of the website.
'Worship Yourself' was released to a predominantly uninterested public, but somehow garnered some interest from both the music industry and the music press, and even a few plays by Steve Lamacq on Radio One's 'Evening Session'. With two of us still in full-time education right up until the summer of 2002, gigs were confined to weekends and holidays. Then, with school out forever and a publishing deal signed, we set out on our first national tour - opening for Biffy Clyro and Hell Is For Heroes. Although we had previously attempted to tour in the back of a Fiesta, we had never been on the road for more than a week. Perilously cramped in the back of a Transit van, we were to gain our first experience of the grimy world of the low budget tour.
A couple of independently released singles later, industry interest had grown until we finally signed on the dotted line for Independiente records. We promptly set about touring the country with, to be blunt, whoever would have us. We played support for Hundred Reasons, Inme, Hell Is For Heroes and Queen Adreena. In December 2002 we played a special one off gig as main support to a band many people believed we were following in the footsteps of; The Manic Street Preachers were playing a special 'small' gig at Brixton Academy, and invited us to support. After two years together as a band, and with Conor still only 17, we were given our biggest gig so far.
In between tours, we began recording 'Handshakes For Bullets', our debut album. Produced by Dave Eringa, and recorded and mixed in 5 different studios around the country, the album spawned 4 singles and was released in both England and Japan. The culmination of all the work we had put in over the past two years, 'Handshakes for Bullets' was the perfect statement of where we were and what we were capable of, a critical success that has steadily grown by word-of-mouth. Since then we have had three UK headlining tours as well as shows in the US and Japan. In December 2003 we set out on the biggest support tour so far - five dates with Linkin Park around the UK, playing to an average of 10,000 each night. A week later, we returned to the Manchester Evening News Arena to support Muse to 17,500 people.
Currently holed up writing songs and recording demos, you can guarantee we won't be away for long...
Conor McGloin/Michael Bromley, February 2004.
Quickly updated biog/RIP Kinesis
...Well, as it turns out, we were away for quite a long time. Like the sobering morning after a heady night, January 2004 saw us being dropped by Independienté. We spent the spring of that year building ourselves a studio in north Manchester. We had no record label, but we knew that the album we had left inside us had to be made. By summer we had started to record and produce our second full-length album, 'You Are Being Lied To'. Right back in DIY land, we needed not consider radio play, single potential, or any of the other additives that come along with being on a major label. By the autumn it was finished and we found a small company called Captains of Industry, a bunch of guys who have supported us all along, to release the product of our 2004. The record was finally released early in 2005, and on the day of release, Kinesis announced that it would be no longer. It was one hell of a ride.
The End.
Also, Michael has kindly offered some photos please check them out here:-
http://www.kinesis-official.co.uk/photo_archive/
