At The Drive-In, The Band, Battles, The Beatles, Ben folds, Bjork, Blur, Jeff Buckley, Camelion, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Graham Coxon, The Cure, De Facto, Kings of Leon, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, The Mars Volta, MGMT, The Mojo Fins, The Muel, Mystery Jets, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, The Police, Prince, Queen, Radiohead, Ron Sexsmith, Sigur Ros, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, Turning Green, Vampire Weekend, Conor Oberst etc.
Adam Kidd has been playing in the Brighton music scene for over a decade, starting as a teenager in the punky rock group rift and going on to play a part in many groups including Pornography, Kiyomori, The Pocketwatchers, Xam Xam and Mind Train. A versatile musician and prolific song-writer, The Adam Kidd Band originally formed to add substance to a set of spare songs Adam had been playing acoustically.
Over the past year and a half they have become a regular fixture in venues across the city with a captivating live show and a set of catchy songs that confidently explore a diverse range of styles and influences to achieve an original sound.
The band completed their first three-track recording as a unit in Winter '08 (Sunshine, Into The Night & Virtually) which you can currently listen to online here, facebook and reverbnation.
In early 2009 the band bolstered their ranks with the addition of Adam's long-term collaborator, Tom Alty (rift), on second guitar. With the final piece of the puzzle in place they played a handful of excellent live shows in the Spring and are currently decamped to record a full length album, which they hope to have completed by August.
Look out for a confident return in toward the end of Summer!
Get in touch for bookings: theadamkiddband@gmail.com
Go to the reverbnation player below to hear some of Adam's rough solo demo's for the album...
Fragile Creatures Live 1.11.08
The Adam Kidd Band live 30.4.08 (Our first gig as an 'electric' band)
Hiya, thanks for being a friend - I enjoyed visiting YourSpace :-) Keep it up May your life be full of love, light and fun... hugs SOREN - Beats for change - NYERTUN
Hi Adam Many thanks for adding me :-)) I am already a fan of your Facebook page but I really like your music so thought I'd add you on here too! My fave of the day is Fragile Creatures...lovely song!!
Hope the future holds a lot of happiness & success for you Smiles & sunshine from Cyra Elia
Hey Adam! Loving Virtually! That's a sneaky bassline... Arif & I have just added a couple new tooons..These Times & Your Words..come have a listen let us know what you think if you get chance! Peace & Love ilta Luita
I'm just not quite sure! But I loved the video on your page on Facebook, when you were trying to get everyone to dance and move forward... I think I recognize the song somehow.. hmmm.. x
Brightons Finest presents Q Music / Glastonbury Emerging Talent Finalists The Mojo Fins Live at the Latest Music Bar Sat 9th May plus special lunchtime acoustic performance from 1pm
hey adam!! that was a great party, great last night of tour. so glad we got to meet you at the end! :) hope to see you here or there again sometime soon... xo erin
