Officer Kicks

There is a heart-on-sleeve immediacy towards the indie rock and roll of Officer Kicks, a southeast London quartet formed by school friends Jamie Scallion about vocals, Jamie Fisher about acoustic guitar, Keith Wickham about drums, and Michael Skorjanec about bass. Changing their name from Mogul in 2005, the music group undertook recording classes that same yr with Jan “Stan” Kybert, a recognised maker and engineer who got previously caused Paul Weller, Oasis, and New Purchase, and the like. While their 1st gig beneath the Official Kicks name occurred in Dalston, London that Dec, a single documented in the Kybert classes was ready for discharge on Redemption Information and the music group spent a lot of 2006 and 2007 touring the united states. Critics likened their concurrently down to globe and entertaining method of live performance compared to that of Kings of Leon and Kasabian, instead of the jagged indie of Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party. Released in 2008, their self-funded debut, The Six Grand Story, was documented at Noel Gallagher’s privately possessed Wheeler End studios in leafy Buckinghamshire, highlighted the riff-filled one “Images of Me,” and was marketed with a tour that included schedules with fellow Londoners the Hoosiers. By springtime of the next year, Official Kicks had finished initial periods for another record, this time around at Soho’s Dean St. Studios, as well as the music group went on to improve their profile additional that summer on the tour of Ireland with Dublin’s the Script. The heavier riffs and darker designs from the newer music introduced with their established that calendar year lent themselves well to a thorough Oct U.K. tour with Juliette Lewis & the Licks. Their Alexander Wolfe-produced second record, Citywide Curfew, made an appearance in Apr 2010 and highlighted the singles “The Kraken” and “Auto.” Using the music group on hiatus from 2011 onward, Scallion collected the composing that he previously performed during downtime on the prior years’ travels and ready the first level of a novel for adults entitled, The Rock and roll ‘n’ Move Diaries: RENDERING IT. Telling the storyplot of a imaginary, school-formed rock-band known as “the RockAteers”, the reserve was released in past due 2013.