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.