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  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 55 // Nov 12 2014

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 55 // Nov 12 2014

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    On this week’s show I had the opportunity to catch up with Irish band Acrobat who are releasing their ‘Flux” EP. I really enjoyed it as I know the guys from home and it was the first time I’ve spoken to them since I moved to London.

    Here’s what happened:

    1. The London Ear Intro
    2. Kill It Kid: I’ll Be The First
    3. Aoife Underwater: On The Cusp of Nothing
    4. Avec Sans: All of Time
    5. Toy Soldier: Sugar
    6. Twice Young: Stay The Same
    7. Marika Hackman: Drown
    8. Adam Wedd: Us
    9. José González: Every Age
    10. Acrobat: Not Back Down
    11. Chat with Acrobat
    12. Acrobat: The Missing
    13. Fairchild: Arcadia
    14. The Art of Amputation: Californian English
    15. Royskopp: Sordid Affair

    Thanks for listening, You can listen live every Wednesday at 1400 and the repeat of show is aired on Sunday nights at 2100. You can listen to the show again on the RTE player.

    You can also listen to the show in its entirety on Mixcloud or in the widget below.

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 55 // Nov 12 2014 by Nessy on Mixcloud

  • Kill It Kid: Live at The Academy 2 Review

    As well as having the opportunity to interview Chris Turpin from Kill It Kid for nessymon.com a couple of weeks ago, I went off to their gig in The Academy 2 to cover it for Goldenplec. Great band, deserve to be heard by everyone.

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  • Interview with Chris Turpin, from Kill It Kid

    Kill it Kid An alarm thankfully woke me up in time for an early morning interview with singer Chris Turpin, from Kill It Kid who easily took my early morning interview crown from Ant from Futures. Our chat took place while Kill it Kid were driving to London to take of the business side of music with a day of meetings. ‘Living in Bath it takes us a little while to get over there’ explains Chris.

    The band got together in University in Bath but they don’t have a typical university indie band sound, it’s a little bit more grown up.

    ‘It’s our influences, I guess. I was gigging on my own doing solo pre war acoustic blues, Steph was doing similar on the other side of the scale, Bessie Smith and all the early female blues. We started playing together in different little groups, I was playing behind her in some jazz concerts and she had come to see my shows. Mark saw me at a solo gig and we all decided to get everyone in a room together. That was two and a half years ago, it took a little bit of getting used to because knew early on what we wanted to do. It wasn’t an indie disco band, we didn’t want to chase any trends.

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