I realise it's been ten years, but I still miss them. Kenickie are my favourite band ever. They just sang with feeling. And a mackem accent.
I've liked bands before and since, but I've never felt the same joy when I hear any other band. Plus they sounded like they were having fun too.
They split just as I started Uni at Loughborough and I could've seen them on their final tour at Rock City, but I never found anyone to go with. It's something I regret to this day. Although perhaps seeing them in their dying throes will have soured my memory of them.
I even liked how their first unofficial mailing list was one sent out by someone (Lee?) who bcc'd everyone in so you got a load of messages in one go.
The best bit is I have no idea where I started to like Kenickie from. It might have been C-Monster, who mentioned it in his e-mail about AP. Or J Nash when I asked him about music he liked. Or maybe it was when I got a promo leaflet through the post.
So thanks for everything Johnny X (anything to do with http://www.whoisjohnny-x.com/ ), Emmy-Kate Montrose (writer of the Best Kenickie Song ever), Lauren Laverne (who should just stick to radio rather than sorting out Twiggy's frocks) and Marie du Santiago (the one I fancied, sorry Marie).
I did actually see Kenickie live twice, both times were at Reading Festival. Rather surprisingly BFBS played part of their
Cheers.
- The whole gig as a .rar file
- 01 - Dodgy BFBS Intro
- 02 - How I Was Made
- 03 - I Never Complain
- 04 - Millionaire Sweeper
- 05 - I Would Fix You
- 06 - Classy
- 07 - People We Want
- 08 - PVC
- 09 - In Your Car
* Via Minidisc, then audacity.
** I knew I went to Reading 1998 as this was before I went to Uni, but I could have sworn I missed the one before that. However, I am wrong. Simon, the person Simon was speaking to, and the First Matt were right. Everyone must now change the ID3 tags in the MP3s accordingly.
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[...] - Ben Hall has lobbed some Kenickie Live MP3s onto his own 10 year Kenickie post, and they’re entirely loveable. Especially worth listening to the version of I Would Fix You. I [...]
Someone elsewhere has just raised a point - how come I Would Fix You wasn't on ATC if it's that old?
Wow! Cheers!
I suspect this might have been Reading 1997. (I haven't actually downloaded and listened to this yet, so it may begin with an announcement saying "Live from Reading 1996" or something, but it's quite late and I don't have time at the moment.) I'm sure I recall seeing them not long after At The Club came out and announcing I Will Fix You as a new song.
Although actually having listened to it now, it's not the version I remember from the time so I'm almost certainly talking rubbish. Just back up and pretend I never said that. Maybe they'd already recorded most/all of ATC by the time they wrote it?
Everyone was right. I was wrong. Sorry everyone.
Although... *drags bowl and basket towards coop* do you have the recording of the Radio 1 London Sound City gig about a fortnight before ATC's release which also features IWFY?
Unfortunately this is all the rare Kenickie stuff I have. BFBS were never really that bothered about indie, unless you count John Peel who used to do a radio show for them.
In fact, I can't even remember the meanings of the words "before" and "after".
I think the Radio 1 Sound City gig was the one where I saw them and they announced etc etc, although I thought it was before rather than after ATC came out because, well, it was 11 years ago and I can barely remember what happened last week half the time.
It is that one, because I've got it in mp3 form (maybe I should have made that clearer earlier) and Emmy-Kate mentions its forthcoming release at one point.
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Nice - thanks for sharing! I saw them supporting Ramones on their final European show - Brixton Academy, 1996 and fell in love with - we,ll, all of them, actually! I also have a copy of the Sound City gig they did for Radio One, if you're interested? Send me an email ;-)
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