Kid At The Back formed in early 2003 after Singer/Songwriter Zac Whitaker had spent two years in a room in Porthleven writing material he decided to upsticks and move back to London to form a band.
After a chance meeting at a mutual workplace, semi professional session musicians, Zac Whitaker (vocals,guitar) and Matt Gornicki (drums) then spent six months in a rehearsal studio writing and arranging songs whilst also searching for an amazing Bass player. This came in the shape of Anthony Durrant, an old friend of Matts who had previously worked with Matt in the band Cadre.
Five months later Kid At The Back played their first live show at The Horn Reborn. This was a roaring success and the band was invited back to take part in the venues annual Battle Of The Bands competition. After four months of gigs they reached the semi-finals and were narrowly beaten by Enter Shikari. Not satisfied with this the band entered two more competitions. The Flag and The Fountain in. This time both finals were reached and they were narrowly beaten by Bush Dr and The Subways.
Also in this time Kid At The Back music has been heard worldwide with repeated airtime on British Forces Radio and providing the soundtrack for surfers and skaters on channel four and satellites, Extreme Sports Show.
On the back of this success KATB undertook a big promotional campaign to ensure their music was available to a wider audience.
This saw the band performing in and winning the EmergenzaUK unsigned band festival. On the back of this they were taken to Germany to perform at the Taubertal international festival in front of 20,000 people. This also saw them announced among the top twenty unsigned bands worldwide by Emergenza/JAR Music.
Since the festival, unfortunately bass player Ant decided he could not keep up with the bands now hectic schedule.This led to him leaving and after a brief spell with Ed Pyle on bass the band have now inducted one of the best young bass players in the UK, Lee Voss. KATB have recently released their debut single 'Slide Away' (available on ITunes and Napstar) and are promoting their music to a wider audience. Meanwhile they will be playing many live shows all over the UK with many different promoters including Inspiral and Mojo Rising and are looking to kick off 2008 with a tour of the South West, WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!!!!
Hey Lee, cant wait to hear you guy's live. Really dig the style of "KATB". Maybe you could have your promoter talk to Tom @ the Nag's Head High Wycombe. Take care,Leroy
Great song writing as ever Zac, love slide away (genius) gotta come n see u giging asap. Much love to matt . ‘hope 2 jam sometime’, . Love Peace n GoMads .
Hear ye, hear ye friends. Calling all ye faithful and faithless, the Big Hand debut album is finally here and set to dazzle upon the main stage of life! Yes, its set for release, and its gonna blow your socks off.........
............ 14 tracks of the finest sparkling soulful zorbic ska ever heard for just ten little pounds, just a click to the left there. Get yourselves the remedy for the April showers, reach out through the ether and get yourself one today. Go on, you know you want to!
April 4th at The Flag marks one year of Inspiral events. In that time we've put on 25 Flag events, a town centre family day, a skate comp, and a sold out Theatre show at the Palace. Not bad. We want to celebrate this and let you know of our plans for this year........so we're having the biggest show yet. And the Quiche are back......
So far we have: WARTGORE HELLSNICKER KID AT THE BACK JAZZ QUICHE LED CIRCUS GIANT PUB GAMES MASQUERADE THEME - MAKE YOUR OWN MASK LIVE ARTISTS DANCE COMP DISCOJUNK DJ SET
I am informing everyone that Nina are Headlining the Good Ship (Kilburn) on Wed 19th of March. This is our first Headlining slot and as we have been out of action this year we would love to get all your familiar faces down for support.
Inspiral are back at the Flag (next to Watford Junction) on FRIDAY 7 MARCH for another night of amazing entertainment. We kick off at 8pm with Fire Spinning outside from the L.E.D Circus who will be on hand to dazzle you all night.
On our spoken word stage (aka the Library) we will be showcasing Miranda Craigwell - (www. myspace. com/macunplugged) all the way from the U.S.A...believe me she is well worth checking out! On our main stage we have the hugely talented Rogue Poet (www. myspace. com/roguepoetband) followed by our headline act Davie Fiddle & The Lucky Egg (www. myspace. com/daviefiddle). They are coming out of sunny London to perform their unique styling's just for you.
So all in all it promises to be another another great evening, but wait there's more! We will have the funky house and breaks of Disco Junk spinning for you into the early hours.
All this for only £3 we must be mad, so come on down this Friday and see what all the fuss is about.
Hey guys!!! hope your all doing well! Just thought you'd like to know that we've got the final mixes of our tracks through and would love to know what you think!
Nina have just finished recording this well over due CD and should be available to you all on the 27th of Nov, coincidently the same day as our gig! This is going to be our first propa gig after a longish break…and for that reason we want to see the Nina army at full strength.
Hope to see you all on tue the 27th November @ the Purple Turtle!!!!
The Single "Fall In Situation" is out TODAY on Bermuda Triangle Records, available NOW from www.beatport.com! It includes the original mix, the Angel Farringdon Breakbeat mix and the Angel de Lux Electro House Mix! Its Banging!!!!
