Kitty & The Lost Boys

This girl-fronted Pop/Rock band have stormed the South West music scene and are making a lasting impression with their catchy songs and electric, high-energy performances. They've caught the attention of various top industry names including Mike Chapman who created hit records for such artists as Sweet and Suzi Quatro aswell as producing 'Parallel Lines': the breakthrough album for Blondie (one of the Kitty and The Lost Boys' major influences) The band have also seen increasing national and international radio interest having been played on Radio 1, BBC Radio6 Music and KROQ LA to name but a few! Family trio ('the Von Trapps with guitars') Blind Johnny, Jess and Kitty are joined by Sam Taylor on drums.

Describe your sound

"You've got Blind Johnny's maddeningly catchy New Wave songs with my girly vocals and thumping bass; Jess melting your face with blinding guitars; all powerhoused along by Sam smashing the shit out of his drums. Think early Blondie meets Thin Lizzy meets the Vontrapps if they'd played guitars, formed a rock group and hadn't been persecuted by the Nazi's or brought up by a nun. How was that?!"

Biggest influences?

"All of us have very different influences for example Jess is big on his classic rock and seminal guitarists (Cream, Gary Moore, Free, Hendrix, Steve Vai and Satriani to name a few) whilst Sam is a bit of a metalhead with a penchant for body art and red bull... Blind Johnny is a huge Elvis Costello fan as well as Tom Petty, The Stranglers and 'the guvner' Lou Reed.

As for me anything from the 60's-Marianne Faithfull, The Kinks, Velvet Underground, Motown of course- and I guess the most important frontwomen in rocknfuckingroll-Debbie Harry, Karen O, Joan Jett, Stevie Nicks, Pat Benatar, Suzie Quatro, Siouxsie Sioux... the list goes on. We've all got such varied influences and I think this creates a sound that combines the raw energy of r'n'r and the attitude of punk, with pop songs that get stuck in your head and that you find yourself singing in the shower."

Ongoing and future plans?

So what can we expect from the new album?

"Pretty run of the mill stuff to be honest: Johnny Rotten's fall from grace that took shape in THAT Country Life butter advert, a serial killing gold digger and the tragic tale of a Punch and Judy Man... There will be some broken hearts and teenage angst thrown in too though ;)"

Kitty and the Lost boys have recently had some of their songs re-mixed by Dave Jones at STR Productions (a U.K based studio specializing in a total Production and Mastering service for all kinds of music.) The studio has just become the main mastering studio for three main music production companies in Africa and a publishing company in the States.

Dave has worked with Kitty and the Lost boys for around 6 months and has re-mixed 4 of their songs so far.

Dave Jones on Kitty and The Lost Boys

"The style and feel of their songs really do get me excited to be involved with them. To me the songs have got everything a good commercial rock song needs- great hooks, great vocals and a unique sound that really defines who they are. They have developed their own sound which will take them far in the music business"

You can hear lots more of Dave Jones' work on his own site

www.broadjam.com/starscreamsrevenge

email str.productions@virginmedia.com