Great news for fans of Rozi Plain and Buddy Peace (who you may know from his remix of This Is The Kit’s “Earthquake”).
We’ve just got an exclusive remix by the main man himself Buddy Peace, of Rozi’s song “Humans”, and we’ve uploaded it to our Facebook page for a FREE DOWNLOAD.
Go get it by going to our facebook page, give us a “Like” if you haven’t already, and click on our BandPage tab - http://www.facebook.com/neednowater
Earthquake by This Is The Kit is officially out today! The B-side carries the Buddy Peace remix, and the 7 inch comes with download codes for the Fear of Theydon and Plaisir De France remixes as well as both sides of the vinyl. All available digitally too of course, from many places including iTunes, which you can get to right here:
This Is The Kit are currently on your in the UK, playing at the Homegame festival this weekend, and then:
11th May Hull, Adelphi, with morningstar and rozi plain
12th May Spilsby, Spilsby Theatre
13th May Kirton, lindsey town hall
16th May london, The Local at cafe oto
Here is our brand new, freshly uploaded, video for “Treehouse” which is a track that is exclusive to our This Is The Kit release “Moon” http://neednowaterrecords.com/needno008 “Absolutely gorgeous, like an aural bath with the warm water lapping over you” — Cerys Matthews, BBC 6music
“Just one of the best things i’ve heard all year, the rest of the LP’s pretty good too….wonderful wonderful stuff” — Gideon Coe, BBC 6music
The video was filmed at a warehouse location in East London, directed by Chris Turner at Hungry Man www.hungryman.com, and features the speedy make-up talents of Natalya Nair http://natalyanair.blogspot.com/
This Is The Kit perform a live session on Marc Riley’s 6music show this Wednesday 15th February and play in London at The Victory in Dalston on Friday 18th February, with Catriona Irving in support, and a DJ set from Fear of Theydon (Sunday Best) FREE ENTRY!
more details can be found here: http://kicktheplug.wordpress.com/
Further UK tour dates are:
14th feb Northampton, labour club. with Liam Dullaghan / Katie Malco
15th feb Manchester, the night and day cafe. with “special guests”
16th feb Durham, Alington house. with Richard Dawson/Cath and Phil Tyler
17th feb Newcastle house show in “banoffee pie house”. with Kid Kirby/ Otters Sing Lullabies/ Kit Endean
18th feb London, kick the plug @ the victory, 281 Kingsland Rd Dalston E2 8A with CATRIONA IRVING and the Full Moon Orchestra
19th feb Bristol, the greatness of the magnificence presents….dreaming with joni mitchell at the cube cinema
20th feb Bristol, cafe kino, stokes croft, bristol with Bravo Brave Bats
I would like to excitedly announce that our next release is a 7 inch and download single by the incredible Rue Royale. There are clips below of the two tracks, and loads more info on the band on the release page HERE.
This Is The Kit’s new album Wriggle Out The Restless is now available for pre-order on CD and LP (with downloads) from Dreamboat Records. It’s an awesome album, rarely off the Need No Water stereo over the last few weeks, I couldn’t recommend it more!
To celebrate the pre-order, Dreamboat giving away a free MP3 of the track “Waterproof” for you to listen to and share around. It’s a great track, so grab it now before they change their minds!