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  • Genre: Alternative / Indie / Rock

    Location London (Balham), Un

    Profile Views: 126869

    Last Login: 3/28/2012

    Member Since 12/5/2005

    Website kingofspain.co.uk

    Record Label Shifty Disco (UK) Volvox Music (France)

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    King of Spain are a five-piece from Balham (famously dubbed 'Gateway to the South' by Peter Sellers), South London. After years of sending home-recorded demos of varying degrees of quality to anyone who'd listen, their debut album 'Battleships & Aeroplanes' was released in 2008 on Oxford's pioneering Shifty Disco label. Recorded on a dairy farm near the Oxfordshire village of Steventon, the record was received by the media with a mixture of delight, consternation, confusion and downright anger. NME loved it, Artrocker did not. Album track 'Bacon' was selected by William Ravenscroft (son of the late, great John Peel) as one of his gems of 2008, and received airplay on the legendary Tom Robinson's BBC6 radio show. Once a clean edit had been hurriedly produced to remove a particularly offensive swear word, Tom also took to spinning live favourite 'Menagerie'. Last year the band returned to the cow shed to beach some fresh tunes, and begin the process of recording Album Numero Deux with long-suffering producer/engineer Rowland Prytherch (a.k.a. Badger), to be released sometime in 2011 when they get round to finishing the bugger. King of Spain run 'flux=rad', an occasional showcase of lo-fi and alternative music that usually happens at their spiritual home, the 12 Bar Club in Soho, and sometimes at the Notting Hill Arts Club in, err, Notting Hill. They also play gigs in places from Berlin to Bournemouth, but can be pretty much persuaded to go anywhere given the promise of beer and/or food. .... ..'BATTLESHIPS AND AEROPLANES'.... .............. .......... ............ ...... ........ ...... ..

  • Members

    Bayly Pike - Vocals/Guitar, Tom Fleming - Guitar/Vocals, Paul Denley - Drums/Percussion, Rich Orpin - Guitar/Vocals, Tommy Watson - Bass, email: kingofspainmusic@hotmail.com, press: alix@darlinguk.com

  • Influences

    The Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse, Pavement, Grandaddy, Guided by Voices, Wilco

  • Sounds Like

    "...welcome King Of Spain with open arms...this album stands as a homage to a great school of underground indie...awesome.".. ..NME 8/10...... .."Bright, jangly, thoughtful indie music that gets better and better with every listen. They have an LP out now called 'Battleships And Aeroplanes' on Shifty Disco records, which you'll be playing over and over again until everyone you know is sick of it and doesn't like you anymore.".. ..William Ravenscroft...... .."How am i going to describe this music? It's genius, no doubt, but what in the world does it sound like? Sea shanty rock? The Libertines take a holiday to the seashore? It defies description.".. ..Rocksellout.com...... .."All in all a promising debut. Catchy varied tuneage coupled with lyrics that don't make you wince. The King is dead, long live the king".. ..Subba-Cultcha 4/5...... .."Playing a weird mix of indie rock and sea shanties, these guys are sort of like a British Decemberists, and are definitely one to watch".. ..Spoonfed.co.uk...... .."It is King of Spain whose star burns the brightest".. ..Gigwise.com...... .."Indie rock crossed with Johnny Cash with a grunge Ian Botham on bass - awesome!".. ..Myriad Creatures...... .."As close to underground indie-dom as you can get".. ..Musicomh.com...... .."These four blokes from South London have captured that raw Britishness of a Libertines record better than twenty other bands who were trying harder could do".. ..Bearded Magazine......

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About King of Spain

King of Spain are a five-piece from Balham (famously dubbed ‘Gateway to the South’ by Peter Sellers), South London. After years of sending home-recorded demos of varying degrees of quality to anyone who’d listen, their debut album ‘Battleships & Aeroplanes’ was released in 2008 on Oxford’s pioneering Shifty Disco label. Recorded on a dairy farm near the Oxfordshire village of Steventon, the record was received by the media with a mixture of delight, consternation, confusion and downright anger. NME loved it, Artrocker did not. Album track ‘Bacon’ was selected by William Ravenscroft (son of the late, great John Peel) as one of his gems of 2008, and received airplay on the legendary Tom Robinson’s BBC6 radio show. Once a clean edit had been hurriedly produced to remove a particularly offensive swear word, Tom also took to spinning live favourite ‘Menagerie’. Last year the band returned to the cow shed to beach some fresh tunes, and begin the process of recording Album Numero Deux, 'thirtydegreeshandsonhipsleanforwardsmile', with long-suffering producer/engineer Rowland Prytherch (a.k.a. Badger). It will be released October 7th 2011 on Shifty Disco records.

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RELEASED 7 OCTOBER 2011!

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Bayly Pike - Vocals/Guitar
Tom Fleming - Guitar/Vocals
Paul Denley - Drums/Percussion
Rich Orpin - Guitar/Vocals
Tommy Watson - Bass

email: kingofspainmusic@hotmail.com

press: info@kingofspain.com




Influences:

The Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse, Pavement, Grandaddy, Guided by Voices, Wilco

Sounds Like:

BBC Introducing with Tom Robinson on 6music

"...welcome King Of Spain with open arms...this album stands as a homage to a great school of underground indie...awesome." NME 8/10

"Bright, jangly, thoughtful indie music that gets better and better with every listen. They have an LP out now called 'Battleships And Aeroplanes' on Shifty Disco records, which you'll be playing over and over again until everyone you know is sick of it and doesn't like you anymore." William Ravenscroft

"How am i going to describe this music? It's genius, no doubt, but what in the world does it sound like? Sea shanty rock? The Libertines take a holiday to the seashore? It defies description." Rocksellout.com

"All in all a promising debut. Catchy varied tuneage coupled with lyrics that don’t make you wince. The King is dead, long live the king" Subba-Cultcha 4/5

"Playing a weird mix of indie rock and sea shanties, these guys are sort of like a British Decemberists, and are definitely one to watch" Spoonfed.co.uk

"It is King of Spain whose star burns the brightest" Gigwise.com

"Indie rock crossed with Johnny Cash with a grunge Ian Botham on bass - awesome!" Myriad Creatures

"As close to underground indie-dom as you can get" Musicomh.com

"These four blokes from South London have captured that raw Britishness of a Libertines record better than twenty other bands who were trying harder could do" Bearded Magazine

Record Label:

Shifty Disco (UK)
Volvox Music (France)

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