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Balaclava Kid & Dad

About Me

Welsh 2-piece jam band currently based in Norwich at Unit 5 Studios. We love noise and have just unleashed our Dead Sheep EP. Finally. Its 6-tracks of supeRturBo and is available from Soundclash (Norwich), the Playhouse Bar (Norwich) or click the magic pic...

For 2009 we're looking to play loads of gigs, especially superB festivals, so if you like the racket please contact us at [email protected]

Also, if you'd like to play Norwich we have an awesome warehouse space at our disposal. Past rumblings have included Part Chimp, The Neutrinos and Luke Abbott

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/03/2006
Band Members: Dad - Guitar, trumpet, footkeys, sounds
Balaclava Kid - Drums, skins, blocks, marimba, piano, sounds
Influences: Led Zep / Kyuss / Lightning Bolt / Miles Davis / Eno / Hella / GNR / Kolomeyka /Sheep Veg /Don Caballero / Max Roach / Kinski / Martha Argerich / Bob Dylan / Acid Mothers Temple / Drive Like Jehu / BOREDOMS / Chevreuil / Amon Tobin / Shitmat / Earth / Ennio Morricone / Mingus / Pearl Jam / BUDGIE / Polly Harvey / Killing Joke / Pink Floyd / Prodigy / Kinski / JSBX / Prodigy / Gilberto Gil/ The Country Teasers / Aphex Twin / Muppets / Afrirampo / FSOL / Bauhaus / I Don't Know / Squarepusher / Roni Size / Robert Johnson / Stockhausen/ Julian Cope / BATTLES / Bark Psychosis/ CLINT / Battles Sun ra / The Oxxxes / Hash jar tempo / Jonathan Richmann / Tortoise / Bardo Pond / Sonic Youth / The Dregs/ Venetian Snares / Madchester / Django / NIN / Melvins / BORIS / Captain Beefheart / Nick Drake / Dead Meadow/ ZAPPA........to name a few
Sounds Like: "...a glorious racket..." :
- John Kennedy - Dazed & Confused/xfm

"...with just drums and guitar they conjure up a sound storm of alarming proportions... garage-fuzz, white noise, discordant blues...":
- Norwich Evening News

"...meditative intros suddenly give way to verses and codas which hit you in the solar-plexus... and build to hypnotic zeniths of bug-eyed trill-outs..." :
- Modest Moose - The Revolution will not be Amplified
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Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Dead Sheep EP Review - Kingsley Harris

'....I need to rave about experimental drum and guitar duo Balaclava Kid & Dad or BK & Dad as they are better known. A couple of weeks ago I was given a copy of their debut EP Dead Sheep, well at six ...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:41:00 GMT

New song GiL uploaded

Check out GiL taken from the Dead Sheep EP. 3 minutes of speed demons!
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:17:00 GMT

BBC NORFOLK LIVE & EP PREVIEW SESSION FRIDAY 9th Jan @ 7ish!

Listen if you can to BBC Norfolk Introducing for Live acoustic set & a cheeky EP preview!
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:01:00 GMT

Kinky xMass DistortionblusH @ Unit 5

Big thanks quickly to Part Chimp for coming all the way from Londinium, playing an awesomely volumous set and kickin the roof in for the Unit 5 xmas bash. AND to everyone who made it, hope you all had...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:54:00 GMT

Part Chimp gig INFO

This is gonna fricking Rock!Badges will be ready from Saturday 6th December for the Part Chimp gig. Available from Leo & Pip for £5. Some people have contacted us already about badges and we'll hook u...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:39:00 GMT

Stuart Maconies FREAKZONE play!

Big thanks to Stuart Maconie for playing Dead Sheep on 6 Music's Freakzone on November 2nd followed by a John Cage track! Wooo! Tis a quality show & everyone should listen to it every Sunday 5.30-8.00...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:36:00 GMT

Butcher of common sense - YOU TUBE CLIP - Radio Eins

Check out the Butcher of Common Sense session on Radio Eins athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH0_nQwkOvo
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:13:00 GMT

The Butcher of Common Sense - BERLIN

OK. We've just spent an awesome week in Berlin working on a media/music/art project called The butcher of Common sense with the Neutrinos. Just finished packing up, smoked far to much, our throats r f...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:37:00 GMT

red wine lips and bedtime hips

all i wanted for you was to be happy and true not sad and lonely and blue
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:13:00 GMT

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girl those looks will get you anywhereto the highest rung they'll ringto the place you wanna bemakes me smile i makes me laughhow fickle my mind can be but this is what i seered dress red lips red sho...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:42:00 GMT