Bitter Sweet Kicks

Bitter Sweet Kicks
LANEWAY MUSIC

Madness and Mad. This Australian band from Melbourne are one of the few that hail from the south side (St Kilda) and as Lynyrd Skynyrd said in their response to Neil Young's track "ALABAMA" the south will rise again. Let me say too that I am so sick of some of the lame fuckers on the north side of Melbourne playing piss weak ALT country this is melbourne the home of HOSS and the POWDER MONKEYS and some one needs to call out its not Nashville the suburbs called Northcote

The Bitter Sweet Kicks are crazy nuts mad live on stage . They truly remind me of the live shows in melbourne from 1977 to 1980 (yep I was around) and they can really fucking back it up with the music. BSK truly combine great 77 punk rock blues music with a true rock n roll show.  Raw explosive power.
Nihilistic lead singer Jack Kicks  has a maniac attitude to throwing his body around on stage he reminds me  sometimes  of  Henry Rollins and Iggy Pop . The bands tight and Jerry the drummer on two of the albums and back in the band again really has a swagger that reminds me why drummers should actually be front and center on stage but no one ever wants to do that. Twin guitar attack and bass playing thats in tune with Jerry Cola. And in true 1977 style there is more broken glass at the end of a show than in the glass recycling bin at the tote hotel on sunday mornings  
Three albums, "Bitter Sweet Kicks",  "Linea De Fuego" and "Eat your young" are all killer no filler yes I love them so much I recorded the Linea De Fuego and Eat your young albums no charge so now its your turn to support them. Now I aint no Lester Bangs so stop reading and Check out a live show or listen on line  
Laneway music are really excited to be working with BSK and getting their music further out into the stratosphere
Band Members
Jack Davies Vocals
Brendan Charlie guitar
Johnny Kicks Bass
Chris Madarse Guitar
Jerry Cola Drums
Harley played drums whilst Jerry took a break to get well
Thomas Watson now playing Guitar replacing Brendan


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