~~Joe Smith - Vocals
~~Matt Cuff - Guitar and Backing Vocals
Influences
Bloc Party, Muse, Incubus, Hendrix, System of a Down, Oasis, QOTSA, Blur, The Who, Cream (as well as Clapton on his own), The Strokes, RHCP, The Futureheads, The Zutons, Radiohead, Stone Roses, Feeder, The Vines, Dire Straits, BRMC, Clash, Sex Pistols
Sounds Like
We like to think that our sound is pretty unique, but 'Indie' is probably best for the moment. Look out for a shift of style in the future...
We are Violent Ken. Our story is fairly long so we'll make it as short as possible for you. Dave, Matt (who origianlly played bass) and James formed a band about 3 years ago. For ages we looked for a singer and eventually found a guy called Nick Ledgar who also played guitar. It went well until school held battle of the bands (which we couldn't have done with out the wonderful Kathrine Hughes and her brilliant organisation and inventiveness ;) ) and we found out Nick couldn't play in it because he isn't part of our school. So Nick left and we recruited Joe and Becky (who played bass as Matt wanted to play guitar, and to be fair was better on the guitar). This resulted in the formation of Violent Ken (we were originally Felix Measures, after Dave misread some words on the wall in music and said Felix Measures which we adopted as our name), the name came from looking through a PS2 cheats book and finding the cheat for (I think it was Street Fighter): Play as Violent Ken, and it stuck, and we continued to be a band after Battle of the Bands. It's not the story of Lord of the Rings but it's not too bad.
The story continues.... Marm has had to leave the band due to other commitments and with the loss of Marm, Becky and Dave have decided to call it a day. Joe and Matt will continue to fulfil the legacy of Violent Ken but we need your help. This is now an appeal, if there are any drummers, bassists and guitartists out there, who play to a decent standard and wish to join a band, then contact us. As Shaggy once said to Scooby - 'friends never quit.'
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Hi there violent ken, Thanks for commenting us absolutely ages ago! We're not very good at keeping up to date with commenting back, sorry!
Just thought I'd let you know that we've got our second single, 'Pockets' out on 16th July which you can buy from HMV or download by texting Pockets to 78789
We also have a single launch party at the Sugarmill on 14th July!
Hi there violent ken, Thanks for commenting us absolutely ages ago! We're not very good at keeping up to date with commenting back, sorry!
Just thought I'd let you know that we've got our second single, 'Pockets' out on 16th July which you can buy from HMV or download by texting Pockets to 78789
We also have a single launch party at the Sugarmill on 14th July!
its just the Maxon auto wah, you know the yellow little pedal... it does crazy stuff man i love it
yeah road to evil is the weirdest one out of the bunch but i guess you're a musician so you you're more incentive to that form more than others in a way
yeah the mixing is shitty a bit i find but i might re-record them in a studio if the proper time comes later on... much later and also i better be concentrating on my band but i cant help it i keep having these concepts and ideas for more songs loll i cant bring them all to my band they are very selective loll
We've just found out that not only can you buy our debut single from selected HMV stores nationwide from monday 22nd january and preorder it from hmv.co.uk, but is also going to be available as a digital download.
So, yes, if you're at one with technology you can download our single BACKWARDS as an mp3 for just 99p from www.recordstore.co.uk.
So wherever you are in the world you can still get hold of our debut single. Have fun and hopefully we'll see you in the charts.
FRIENDS OF KEN'S DEBUT SINGLE 'BACKWARDS' RELEASED 22ND JANUARY
No your eyes doo not decive you. It has finally happened.. Our debut single will be released on the 22nd January 2007. What a day! It will be available on a three track CD, featuring BACKWARDS, SPRAY MY NAME and U ARE HERE. It will be available to buy from selected HMV stores and is also available now to preorder from www.hmv.co.uk or www.recordstore.co.uk
So go on, get out there and get yourself a copy and help spread the word of Ken.
So you thought Friends of Ken weren't doing a Halloween gig this year. Don't be silly....
HALLOWEEN HELL 4 - AFOKALYPSE NOW!
31st OCTOBER - THE UNDERGROUND, HANLEY
That's right, this year Halloween Hell has moved to Underground and we've got an amazing line up featuring us, naturally, Saving Grace, Hudson and some special guests.
It's an over 14 show and tickets are available from Music Mania for just 5.
We promise it'll be the best yet and we demand fancy dress. See youi there, you know you want to.
im impressed with the changes in shoot its 1000% better. looking forward to hearing sum more improved stuff. like the bass solo, then where the drums kick in mid way and the solo sounds cool after that bit too.
wen does it begin to ache playing those same two chords for the entirety of song for u. i mean 2 minutes and 37 seconds of the same chord change must enduce cramp.
u have a sound u can work with which is good but spend sum more time on maybe musical structure and put sum creativity in. the first song, too, is pretty much just the same 4 chords all the way through except for the bit b4 the key change then u go back the same 4 chords just transposed a little higher. b clever because i kno from playing with u that u can do it. sorry for the rant.feel very free to critisize any of my music. Peace x
