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BIG NEWS: We are playing Rebellion 2018

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Bristol’s Kiss Me, Killer will be making our way to Blackpool this summer for Rebellion 2018 and rocking the festival’s Introducing stage.

The world famous Rebellion has its roots in the Holidays in the Sun festival, which started back in 1996 in Blackpool but saw events all over Europe and beyond. Looking to showcase future punk as well as the classic favourites, 2007 saw the launch of the Rebellion festival. The event now takes in many subgenera of punk rock and m alternative.

The Nuns get covered...
The Nuns get covered at Griffstock 2017, our first festival appearance – now we’re off to Blackpool for Rebellion …

There’s also literary stages, art exhibitions, Acoustic music, poetry, clothing stalls, tattooists much more. Kiss Me, Killer will be taking our bmovie-riot-grrrl-come-hardcore sound to the The New Band Stage, which’ll be a real death in our cap!
The festival runs from Thursday 2nd August 2018 to Sunday 5th August 2018 so make sure you get your tickets and accommodation sorted sooner rather than later.

KMK hit Wales with gigs in Newport and Cardiff

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Kiss Me, Killer got 2018 up and running with two explosive gigs across the Severn Bridge, taking in Le Pub, Newport and The Moon, Cardiff, with with Welsh ska punk heroes 6foot7.

The Moon gig on 21 January saw the band play as part of the Welsh capital’s Free for All Festival and shared the bill with Oldham’s The Crashmats. The Moon is a great little venue and although the Sunday evening crowd was small those who’d braved the rain were treated to a blistering night of high-octane punk rock thrills.

The Crashmats played a storming set until their guitarist broke a string on his Les Paul. No matter, I stepped in by offering the pink ‘Barbie’ Gordon Smith GS1 that, when plugging it, sounded twice as loud, clear and potent. Never judge a small powder pink guitar by its looks. That axe is a monster.

The Newport gig on 6 January was the perfect way to put Christmas to bed and as well as ska punk thrills from 6foot7, local band Hippodrome served up some post-punky neo-psychadelia that I found vaguely reminiscent of The Brian Jonestown massacre and which is no bad thing. It was out first outing at Le Pub, which moved from another location a while back, and it a first class place to catch some live music, which great value grub and plenty of nice beers on tap, great sound, and plenty of space.Go see gigs there.

Both gig featured a brand new Kiss Me, Killer song about hypermanic hypersexuality. In typical KMK style it’s mixes it up with post-punk intro, thundering old skool hardcore, the odd psych touch and our first ‘breakdown’.

Thank to Cheri for the fab photos as always. Hope to see you at one of the forthcoming gigs.

2018: The year of punk rock

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Kiss Me, Killer enjoyed an eventual year in 2017 and we’re looking to up the ante in 2018 with a bunch of gigs already on the calendar and plans to record a debut album.

One thing we’ve simply not had time for as we prepped our Beware! EP release is writing new songs but a brand new one will make its debut at our first gig of 2018 at Le, Pub Newport. Here’s what we’ve lined up so far:

KMK Dates for your diaries!
6th January – The Christmas Hangover featuring/6foot7/KissMeKiller/Hippodrone at Le Pub, Newport
10th March -Custard’s Punk present Honey / Gung Ho / Kiss Me Killer / Stay Voiceless at The Moon Cardiff
31st March – Fishstock 2018 at Exchange, Bristol
28th April – Punk At The Star with Rage DC, The SLM, Tio Rico, Kiss Me Killer, Southampton
26th May – Bristol TBA
7th July – The Unholy Messtival II: A Messnado!, The Victoria Bikers Pub, Leicester
22nd September – SHP Presents – SiCKPiG, Kiss Me, Killer, Lockersludge & More at The Junction, Plymouth
More dates to be added very soon.

If you would like to book us please contact us via this page.

If you’ve just stumbled up this site from outta nowhere and are curious as to what KMK are about then please check out our Debut EP ‘Beware!’… The reviews are in…

“On It’s Going Down, the band up the tempo, volume and anger with some Fugazi like rhythms mixed with some good old UK anarcho-punk lyrics. The delivery is right on the money as the band urge “civil unrest for the ones less blessed” – it’s an excellent track that is both raw and accessible at the same time.” – PunkOnline https://punkonline.co.uk/kiss-me-killer-beware-ep-review/

Available across a major streaming platforms including Spotify, iTunes, Google play and Amazon. Physical copies, downloads and merch are also available to purchase via our website and Bandcamp.

Beware! EP available on on major channels

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The dust has settled on our EP Launch Party and now our first release is available on all major channels.

The 5-track physical CD copy includes live-favourite bonus track, Och Aye!, which is currently not available elsewhere.

Kiss Me, Killer debut DIY release in CD format. The ultimate Christmas prezzie for all your friends and family.
Kiss Me, Killer debut DIY release in CD format. The ultimate Christmas prezzie for all your friends and family.

The four-track version can be found on all major digital online music stores including: Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, YouTube, Microsoft Groove, ClaroMusica, Saavn, MediaNet. Holly has also set up a Kiss Me, Killer bandcamp page.

So however you like to access your music you can now find our incendiary DIY punk.

The CD version makes the perfect sticking filler for anyone that needs more punk rock in their life. This is available exclusively from our merch shop.

The online distributions was done pretty painlessly using the DistroKid service. We can recommend this to other DIY bands who want to get there music out there with the minimum of fuss or expense. If you follow this link you can get a 7% discount on your first year of Distrokid membership.