In Brief: Children Collide, The Kits, Royalchord
News posted Friday, October 2 2009 at 04:00 PM.
Related: Children Collide.
Children Collide have been remixed by UK electro-pop quartet Ladytron … for a sports game. The track is available as a free download with every copy of FIFA 10 for the PlayStation platform. In addition to the remix, the original version of ‘Skeleton Dance’ - taken from the band’s debut album The Long Now - features on the official in-game soundtrack. “My Irish cousins punishing me at FIFA while they called me ‘Skippy’ didn’t deter me from loving this game,” reasons singer Johnny Mackay, “and the chance to get remixed by Ladytron – who we’re all fans of – has been the icing on the cake of the whole experience.” Not into sports games? You can hear the track here … Melbourne expats The Kits have teamed up with none other than The Saints’ Chris Bailey for two new tracks. Bailey and the band are currently holed up in Gizzard Studios in London, where they’re working on demos of ‘This Is A Set Up’ and ‘The Battle’, two potential a-sides from the band’s forthcoming second LP (due for release in early 2010). Having recently recruited Owen Eszeki (ex-Bit by Bats) on bass, The Kits are about to commence a run of 10 shows in Europe. Dates here … Globetrotting Melbourne natives royalchord (Tammy Haider and Eliza Hiscox) will launch their new album The Good Fight at Melbourne’s The Toff in Town on November 15. The album was recorded with a stack of keyboards and pawn shop instruments in an isolated village in the south of France. It will be released on October 10 on Mistletone/Inertia. Royalchord are currently one week into a month-long residence at the Edinburgh Castle, also in Melbourne.
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Children Collide, are this band ever going to do anything musically noteworthy. People gave British India shit for being 'the next big thing' for 2 years, CC seem to be making a career out of being the next 'big thing'. How about some killer songs Johnny? How about a great debut album Heath? Am i alone in tiring of seeing CC on rage at 3am with an expensive video to a mediocre song?
obviously fucking not. they are shit. they are a step lower than shit. i would rather watch accident prone kids running head first into each other. infact, it seems funniest home videos are better than ''CC''!
Thursdays!
Royal Chord's Edinburgh Castle residency has support from josh armistead,ii, the motifs & patinka cha cha.
And a bit off topic, but the little Indian place opposite the Edinburg Castle have really nice chick pea curry.
I went to that Indian place once before a My Disco gig at the Brunswick Arts space. I thought it was shitttthouse.
That indian gaff is horrid.
hmm - what dish did yas have?
You talking about the place that's painted orange on the outside?
Yep, I live right near it, had a few, all have been soggy and bland.
The castle does pretty sweet homely food anyhow. At least it used to I am not sure if they are still running the same menu but it used to slay a bit.
yeah, I thought that place was pretty average
Castle food = good
Roo?
Bangers and Mash?
Do they still have the table tennis out there as well?
parma was pretty alright...
by the end of the residency I'll be able to tell ya how the roo and bangers and mash are too
I think I have had the roo. It was dynamite.
I'll be down there for a Thursday
kaboom!
It took Children Collide a few years to get going, but they've actually achieved a fair bit over the last 18 months and their album holds up really well. Hopefully they make sure the follow-up is ready sooner rather than later.
do CC actually have new material? they've been flogging the same stuff under different guises for years.
They wrote a titload of songs before the latest release. There was some rehashed stuff obviously but they have a bank of tunes in the vault.
They need to, apparently they're recording an album in January with Youth producing.
I know they were doing 12 hour days a lot in ye ole rehearsal rooms. A lot of rehearsing. Too much for the metal brainz.
youth? youth?! who's handling the budget for this one?
THE KITS are at The Water Rats, Kings Cross, Thursday 5th November.
The Kits have a £5 list, contact them to have your name put on it. On stage at 9pm.
I like em.. CC that is. Plus they played at the NRL state of origin !
Like what mathieson? I'm actually struggling to find stuff. A few UK tours, NRL, signing to Universal... What am I missing?
Oh, and tonight on Pub Crawl!
US Tour
Some Au festivals and tours.
Not playing at Blueprint.
SXSW yeah? Was that last year?
Don't recall.
They did a tour earlier this year with no SXSW.