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

23rd February 2018 By Davidkmk Leave a Comment

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:

The extended set featured pretty much out entire repertoire of brustil punk rock.
AJ the drummer,
Cat activates her distortion pedal of doom.
Incendiary riot grrrl action rocks the Red Lion.
Nat mans the KMK merch stall.
The relentless riffage of David, Cat an Nat baked AJ’s thumping beats.
‘Tough titties’ – badass frontwoman Holly.
David with his famous pink Gordon Smith GS1 – AKA ‘Barbie’ and Cat.
Holly KMK’s new tattoo.
A dancing Red Lion crowd loved Kiss Me, killer
Cat KMK hammers are Telecaster.
The band in full flow.
Holly KMK gets up close with the audience
What a great night in aid of two great causes.

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.

Filed Under: Gigs Tagged With: bristol, bs5, Charity, DIY, easton, girls to the front, live music, One25, Red Lion, riot grrl, Unseen UK

BIG NEWS: We are playing Rebellion 2018

30th January 2018 By Davidkmk Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Band news Tagged With: bristol, DIY, festival, punk, punk rock, Rebellion 2018, riot grrl

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

21st October 2017 By Davidkmk Leave a Comment

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?

Filed Under: Gigs Tagged With: bristol, exchange bristol, gigs, live music, punk, punk rock, riot grrl, riot grrrl

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

17th September 2017 By Davidkmk Leave a Comment

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.

Salt Bath from Wales
Salt Bath from Wales
Playmouth's Super Secret Club
Playmouth’s Super Secret Club
Playmouth's Super Secret Club
Playmouth’s Super Secret Club
Wales' Think Pretty
Wales’ Think Pretty
Think Pretty - grunge action
Think Pretty – grunge action
AJ of Kiss Me, Killer - happy!
AJ of Kiss Me, Killer – happy!
David and Holly of Kiss Me, Killer.
Grrrr!!
Grrrr!!

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.

Filed Under: Gigs Tagged With: bristol, gigs, grunge, punk, punk rock, riot grrl, riot grrrl

88 Fingers Louie rock Exchange

6th August 2017 By Davidkmk 1 Comment

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.

88 Fingers Louie
88 Fingers Louie
88 Fingers Louie at the Exchange
Dan of 88 Fingers Louie had YELLOW strings.
Dan of 88 Fingers Louie had YELLOW strings.
Denis holds court
Denis holds court
Dan "Mr. precision Wleklinski" of 88 Fingers Louie
Dan “Mr. precision Wleklinski” of 88 Fingers Louie with Parker Fly
Denis of 88 Fingers Louie
Iconic rock singer pose – Bitter-Town hounds.
This is what it's all abour.
This is what it’s all abour.
This band really must be seen.
Classic rock guitar pose. Nice.
The Bitter-Town Hounds with low low down bass.
Nat and his Phantom bass
David's had that Citizen Fish t-shirt for over 15 years
David’s had that Citizen Fish t-shirt for over 15 years
Nat and Cat
Nat and Cat
A bit of a riot grrrl shimmy
A bit of a riot grrrl shimmy
Kiss me, Killer
Kiss me, Killer of Bristol
Holly screaming out her lyrics.
Our first bigger stage as Kiss Me, Killer
Howling GS1 guitar
Kiss Me, Killer
Kiss Me, Killer
Nat pumps out the basslines
Nat pumps out the basslines
David tunes up the Gordon Smith
David tunes up the Gordon Smith GS1
Layman's Terms of Bristol
Layman’s Terms of Bristol

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.

#Repost @hollykissmekiller (@get_repost) ・・・ Me and Denis, such an amazing evening supporting 88 Fingers Louie. I felt 15 again when I was listening to the Hopeless Record compilation and 100 proof blew my mind!!! Thank you so much for having us, I'm truly overwhelmed and grateful 🖤 Save travels guys! #KMK #kissmekiller #bands #punkrock #riotgrrrl #bands #gigs #kissmekiller #diypunk #grunge #rock #88fingerslouie #bittertownhounds #girlstothefront #exchange #bristolgigs #punk

A post shared by Kiss Me, killer (@kissmekillerband) on Aug 4, 2017 at 4:52pm PDT

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.

Filed Under: Gigs Tagged With: 88 fingers louie, bristol, bs1, exchange, gigs, pop punk, punk, punk rock, riot grrl, The Bitter-Town Hounds

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KMK to support the MARTYRIALS at The Louisiana, Bristol

KMK to support the MARTYRIALS at The Louisiana, Bristol

29th May 2018 By Davidkmk Leave a Comment

The band will be supporting the incendiary MARTYRIALS at Bristol’s iconic Louisiana venue on 17 August. MARTYRIALS is a high energy psychedelic synth-punk outfit pumping out and explosive blend of punk, glam and Rock and Roll. Punk ethics meet space-delay driven psychedelia like if the Ramones had synthesizers or if System of a Down met […]

Kiss Me, Killer to make Devon debut

It’s taken us a while but we’re finally playing Exeter at the famous Cavern club on 15 May. The gig, entitled, All in Riot Grrrl, will feature some of the best in punk rock from the West Country, including Bristol legends Drunken Butterfly and Bath’s top feminist anti-folk exponent, Yonic. Tickets are available for a […]

Bristol’s NITELIFE Magazine covers Hell Hath No Fury’s Menstruals gig

Go into any of Bristol hipper cafes, haunts and night spots and you’re sure to have seen, or even picked up, a copy of Nitelife Magazine, which showcases the best is the city’s nightlife. Nitelife has clearly cottoned on to the now exploding new wave of punk bands emerging both in Bristol and across the […]

AJ drum depping for Drunken Butterfly at Bristol Dream Wife gig

KMK drummer AJ will by deputising on drums for seminal Bristol riot grrrl band, Drunken Butterfly who are supporting Dream Wife at the Exchange venue Dream Wife is a punk band from Brighton who released debut album Dream Wife in January and have really been blowing up big time in the UK. Go check ’em […]

AJ and Cheri star in new video by The Menstrual Cramps

Kiss Me, Killer’s drummer AJ and ‘sixth-member’ Cheri have featured in The Menstrual Cramps all-new video for their song ‘I like that Top’. It’s an amazing piece of work so go watch immediately.

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Punk superstars of Instagram

Punk superstars of Instagram

Recently we hit the big 600 follower mark on Instagram, the social network for people who can’t be arsed with words and just what an eyeful of pictures and videos. To mark this achievement here are some of our high-rating videos from the last year. Enjoy! Playing our eponymous song, Kiss me, Killer at the […]

Holly’s lyric sheets

Holly’s lyric sheets

Holly never knows when inspiration may strike when it comes to a good song. Here are some of her hand-written lyrics.

David’s top punk tunes

David’s top punk tunes

Kiss Me, Killer guitarist David lists a few of his favourite punk tunes in no particular order. From the Cradle to the Grave – [SUB][HUM][ANS] After buying of those bumper punk compilations as a 13 year old for no money I was looking for more. Taunton’s Our Price offered up a cassette, which cost £3 […]

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