Artist: Alterkicks
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Do Everything I Taught You
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Combining melodic pop elements with the overstrung ambiance of indie rock and Brit-pop, Alterkicks were formed in 2002 by vocaliser Martin Stilwell, guitarists Mike Oates and Gareth Padfield, bassist Mark Yari-Gerrard, and drummer Oliver Hughes. The five met through and through ads posted in music shops, and they exhausted well-nigh of their first year working up material and acquisition to play as a band. In 2004, Alterkicks scored their first base major better when Zane Lowe, a disk jockey on BBC Radio One, began playing songs from their demo tape during his demonstrate. Before long the band was approached by the illustrious independent label Fierce Panda, which released Alterkicks' first base single, "Do Everything I Taught You" b/w "The Cannibal Hiking Disaster," in the spring of 2005. Enthusiastic reviews and wireless airplay caused the single to quick sell out its limited edition pressing, and Moshi Moshi Records soon stepped forrard to liberation a second single by the chemical group, "Oh Honey" b/w "Citalopram" and "Flying lizard." Steady touring followed for the band, as well as a well-received live studio session for BBC Radio Two, and Alterkicks soon became headliners at a regular club dark in Liverpool, dubbed Little Big Man. In 2006, the group signed a semipermanent recording narrow with B*Unique Recordings and released its first base single with the label, "On a Holiday"; an album, produced by Stephen Street, was ascribable in 2007.
