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LadiesNight at Bristol’s Red Lion Pub raises over £400 for women’s charities

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Kiss Me, killer played their first hometown gig for the year and it was for a couple of great causes.

The ‘LADIES NIGHT’ event presented ‘female-led lineups of badass punk/rave/cheese sounds’ to raise money for charities helping women. The event raised over £408 with proceeds going o Unseen Uk and One25. Unseen UK are based in Bristol and work directly with the survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking. One25 is a compassionate and non-judgemental service to women trapped in or vulnerable to street sex-work, supporting them to break free and build new lives away from violence, poverty and addiction.

Cheri Clouds was on hand with her camera. Check out the images:

Other bands o the bill were the mighty punk-rock-ska outfit Dive, who have returned to the scene after a 15-year hiatus and FFTP a well known local duo who provide anarchic folk.Pumped by the bands people stayed to dance the night away to a top lineup of local DJs.

KMK were on song with a moshing crowd matching other great gigs we’ve played at BS5’s iconic live music pub, with newish song Tear your Heart Out reaching Bristol ears for the first time.

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 to play with Italy’s The Smudjas at Exchange, 27 November

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Kiss Me, Killer are thrilled to be back at the Exchange, Bristol on 27 November where we’ll be playing with mighty Italian riot punks, The Smudjas, hosted by Invisible Llama.

It’s a Monday nighter but what better why to liven up a drab Autumn weekday evening than coming to see Kiss Me, Killer? Come on, who cares about school nights?

Custard’s Punk bring Think Pretty, Super Secret Club and Salt Bath to Chelsea Inn

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Local Bristol promoters Custards’s Punk (yeah, Custard Spunk) brought a great bill to the Chelsea Inn, Easton, Bristol on 25 August.

First up came the riotous Salt Bath from the South Wales scene that’s spawning some excellent original bands for their first international gig, before Plymouth popunk exponets Super Secret Club tore if up with some swaggering tunes.

Welsh two-piece Think Pretty were up next with some down and dirty grungey rock’n’roll thrills truly impressed. A band I’d love to catch again.

KMK must’ve been away with the fairies as although we powered through our set with all-conquering verve we managed to complete forget to play Snakes, THE tracks from our forthcoming EP. Ah well… The Chelsea let us play it anyway, even though we were a bit past curfew.

88 Fingers Louie rock Exchange

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Kiss Me, Killer had a rocking time supporting US punk legends 88 Fingers Louie at the Exchange, on 4 August.

It was the band’s first outing on a bigger stage and as we’d honed our sound in elbow-crowded underground punk gigs I immediately felt like it was a bigger canvas to fill. How would our sound come across?

Although the gig was put together at short notice after a Norwich gig venue pulled out leaving 88 Fingers Louie and their UK touring partners, The Bitter-Town Hounds short of a date, a good number of people found out in time and KMK members managed to attract a few of their friends. Still, it was such a strong gig it was a shame the place wasn’t rammed. You missed out if you weren’t there!

After local act Layman’s Terms, Kiss Me, Killer hit the stage. First time we had full PA sound reinforcement and with hindsight I probably shoulda ‘gotta a bit more of me in my monitor’ as I could hear everyone else more than my Gordon Smith. Still, we did pretty well for most of the set, with opener Snakes making a strong statement and, judging from Cheri’s video clip, Cat’s Och Aye! must’ve come over with the riotousness it needs at the larger venue. Cat’s been getting into Open Mics again recently so hopefully we’ll have another Cat song in the set before too long.

There were some mystery tuning issues on our last couple of songs (and me forgetting a double chorus and ploughing into the verse riff… argh, fuckup), which kinda took the edge off the finale but, hey, as the sports cliché goes, ‘there were plenty of positives to take from the game.’ Next time we hit a bigger venue I know we’ll own that sucker.

Pictures of Kiss Me, Killer by Cheri, others by David KMK.

Next, The Bitter-Town Hounds took to the tall Exchange stage. A punk-metal crossover band, the sound blended straight-up old-school metal, thrash, grungier elements and proper rock vocals all served up with a fresh and original edge that really appealed to me. Great guys too. Definitely check The Bitter-Town Hounds out as I imagine they’d appeal to a wide cross section of music fans and could get much bigger before long.

88 Fingers Louie were, of course, the main event and AJ and Holly KMK are massive fans of the band and that flavor of punk rock. Holly danced out every notes, singing along to some of her favourite songs and the guys served up a flawless set. Holly also bagged a selfie with singer, Denis.

Afterwards, Nat and I did a bit of geeking by quizzing The Bitter-Town Hounds on their flawless wireless systems (Line6 Relay G10) and the glowing, sci-fi Kemper modeling amp that belonged to 88 Fingers’ Dan “Mr. Precision” Wleklinski and which I’d never seen outside dudes showing ‘em off on YouChoob in their front rooms. You just load up your patches and away you go. It’s the future, luddites.

Speaking of bigger stages the next gig on the calendar is London at the New Cross Inn on 20 August. We are going drill the set into our brains, hands and vocal chords. It’s going to be immense.