Peter - Plays devil's advocate, bass grooves and his mobile phone.
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Mark - Plays to the crowd and drums
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Simon - Plays dead and guitar, plays with words and sings
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Stephen - Plays keys, microkorg and lead guitar. Always plays it down.
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Chris - Playschool and intervenes on trumpet and microkorg
Influences
Notwist, Radiohead, Lauryn Hill, Tapes and Tapes, Gomez, the Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake to name a few
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Kid and Conundrum lays before you a smorgasbord of sounds and delights for your listening pleasure. Cunning music and words are framed within a sound which is often loud, quiet, loud quiet, then often loud again. The real genius of Kid and Conundrum is the rhythmic groove-laden backline of jumpy bass and drums, sketched upon with melodies and words of well-crafted alternative-sounding songs; all testifying to the random mix of influences behind the band's eclectic song-writing.
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"All of this is great but it's the lyrics that are stunning. Bitter words in a sweet setting, protests and entreaties: 'Tonight we're gonna change the rules again - tonight we’re gonna sell-out all our friends'; 'That's how we worked out what's true, we just looked in your eyes, we saw right through you'; 'There's no point in getting comfy where you are, tomorrow they could take it all away' and 'I'm trying to understand why we are sleeping in the sand when the mystery of the sea is not far away'. Song-writing as evangelism, but with cleverly oblique messages.
Kid and Conundrum provide a wealth of material for the amateur reviewer and the pub psychologist. The narrative flow of the singing and the Gainsberg waft of the melody are the core features, but there are lots of interesting asides - disco-feel guitar janglers, a rolling soul ballad, an edgy funk number, bizarre titles (my favourite 'Baghdad Bakesale'), and a string of fake endings. There hasn't been such brightly odd pop music since the days of James and of Lloyd Cole. The final K&C protest 'Alien nation, what is wrong with you?' comes from a band that can analyse the problems of the world but feels powerless to change them. Brilliance born of frustration."
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GRAZIE...ci siamo riusciti...grazie a VOI, youtube ha tolto la censura al video di KICKO della mia amica kickers Vanilly. Finalmente non è più V.M. 18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW6mXZXMTa8
e per chi ancora nn avesse capito cos'è KICKO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z6177EuHGQ
Yo. Thanks for the add and support...Keep your ears peeled raw for an upcomming mini-mix and very funny remix coming up soon...I'll give you a clue, it contains accordians and was a big hit! Peace Clarity
