December 2011
12 posts
THE LITTLE KICKS GUEST ON SCOTSMAN RADAR PODCAST
Steven recently guested on the Scotsman Radar Podcast to play some of our favorite bands of the North East, talk a bit about our album and give “Loosen Up” a spin. Have a listen on the link below.
The choices made were tracks from CS Buchan, IndianRedLopez, Velvet Audio and JJ Bull - all of whom currently have releases out that we would heartily recommend.
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WHEN YOU MOTOR AWAY ALBUM REVIEW
Our album has been favorably reviewed on the great blog site When You Motor Away.
Read the full review on the link below or we have pasted the text underneath!
Thanks to the WYMA guys for the kind words!
http://whenyoumotoraway.blogspot.com/2011/12/review-little-kicks-little-kicks.html
REVIEW: The Little Kicks - The Little Kicks
Aberdeen, Scotland’s The Little Kicks released their...
THE SCOTSMAN NAME US AS ONE OF THEIR BANDS OF 2011
The Scotsman’s Under The Radar website which covers Scottish and UK music (with impeccable taste we think) has named us as one of their bands of 2011. Needless to say we were pretty chuffed as theses guys know their stuff, you can read the article below or click on the link at the bottom to open in a new window.
Bands of 2011: The Little Kicks Tuesday, 20 December 2011 We’re looking...
ALBUM COMES IN AT THREE IN KOWALSKIY TOP TEN!
The Little Kicks new album has been included in respected Scottish Music website Kowalskiy’s Top Ten albums of 2011. We came in at a very impressive number 3! Alongside some great names including our pals IndianRedLopez – you can read the full article HERE and our entry below:
http://www.kowalskiy.co.uk/2011/12/kowalskiys-top-10-albums-of-2011.html
#3. The Little Kicks – The Little Kicks
I...
RAVE CHILD REVIEW
Great review here from Rave Child for The Little Kicks album! Buy it from I-Tunes HERE: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/ album/the-little-kicks/ id467244040 http://ravechild.co.uk/2011/12/15/record-review-the-little-kicks-the-little-kicks/
The Little Kicks describe themselves as “catchy indie pop” and this is certainly true of their second album.
The band enjoyed great success with previous album,...
ACOUSTIC SESSION VIDEOS
As part of good friends of ours (Scott Anderson + Co) university project which they have based around things for the band, we filmed a couple of Acoustic Session videos for album tracks “Anti Work Song” and “Before Today”.
You can check out both below or on the Videos page of the website.
http://www.thelittlekicks.co.uk/?page_id=28
Click on YouTube links below (opens in...
THE LEFTOVER SESSIONS TOUR DIARY
We guest blogged a tour diary for The Leftover Sessions blog site. Read about our fun (and un-glamourous!) antics in two parts over at the website or on the following links.
PART 1: http://theleftoversessions.co.uk/2011/12/08/guest-bloggers-the-little-kicks-november-tour-diary-pt-1/
PART 2:...
CALL OF YOUTH IN SCOTTISH FICTION TOP SINGLES OF...
http://scottishfiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/scottish-fiction-best-of-2011-singles.html
Scottish Blogspot Scottish Fiction have named “Call Of Youth” alongside singles by Jetpacks, Twilight Sad, Bill Wells + Aidan Moffat, Bwani Junction, PAWS and FOUND.
Were pretty chuffed!
Read below or use the link above / click HERE
Scottish Fiction - Best Of 2011 - Singles
Best is a...
CLYDE FM LIVE RADIO SESSION
http://www.clyde1.com/on-air/the-little-kicks-2011/
While we were on tour we did a session for Jim Gellatly’s In Demand Uncut show.
Previous guests include The Vaccines, Foster The People,Artic Monkeys and Ed Sheeran!
Listen to live acoustic/piano versions of “Before Today”, “Do Something New” and “The First Place” HERE.
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CURIOUS JOE INTERVIEW
Last week Steven did a fairly detailed interview with blog site Curious Joe about the new album, 2012 plans and touched on our previous release “Boxing Clever”.
You can read it HERE
Or scroll below.
[Interview] The Little Kicks
I’m often not a fan of relatively small bands releasing albums, but that’s just me being a bit of a cynic and looking at things in too much of an...
BBC RADIO PLAY BY VIC GALLOWAY
Thanks to Vic Galloway who played Anti Work Song on his show last night on BBC Radio 1/ BBC Radio Scotland.
You can listen here - were about 25 mins in but there’s a lot of treats on there so stick it on from the start if you can!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b017vxq4/Vic_Galloway_05_12_2011/
