The K’s
Welcome to the world of The K’s. If you’re unfamiliar with one of the biggest underground success stories in rock & roll, make yourself at home.
If you haven’t encountered their impassioned bangers, catch up: The K’s have sold out their headline tour months in advance including the iconic 3000-capacity Manchester Albert Hall. They’ve opened the Main Stage to a staggering 8000 people at Neighbourhood Festival, opened the Isle of Wight Festival Main Stage and are set to join the ranks of music legends on the Main Stage of Reading and Leeds Festival 2022. Their streams are comfortably in the millions – not bad for a band who’ve only released seven singles. Their gigs are a guaranteed riot, but that shouldn’t overlook the sophistication that gives The K’s the immediately identifiable blueprint all special bands soon develop. Debut single Sarajevo is one of the few rock & roll songs to namecheck Austro-Hungary, notching up over 3 million streams in the process.
The songs rich lyricism of everyday life continue the tradition of Paul Weller, Stiff Little Fingers, The Strokes and The Libertines, evident in the bands most recent single Hometown. Initially, Jamie would take the skeleton of a song in for the band to develop, but The K’s is increasingly a songwriting democracy, with Dexter’s loves from Talking Heads to Quincy Jones and JJ’s art-rock, linear tastes coming into play. The shimmering Aurora incorporates about 20 ideas and develops them into one huge anthem, while Ryan’s gigantic anthem riff of Hometown was an instant smash when it was boldly debuted at Manchester Albert Hall.
