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Written by Laura Hamlett Tuesday, 16 May 2006 05:35

Boy Kill Boy is on tour with the Charlatans UK in June.

 

 

Call Boy Kill Boy’s debut album Civilian anything you like – epic, ravenous, doomy, electrified, billowing, bilious, brilliant – what leaps out is just how brazenly alive it is. Listen: how Ballad Of Ivy Parker stands triumphantly on its monitor and thumps its chest. How Back Again races Hell’s highways on Beelzebub’s own flaming Harley. How Suzie and On And On karate-punch pop music’s still-beating heart out of its chest and devour it, cackling. For all its grandiosity, this kind of defiance, confidence, preen and pomp doesn’t come from a pampered middle class semi-mansion background in Buckinghamshire. Those sorts of kids make music like Athlete and Keane. No, this sort of thunderous self-belief, like the best art throughout history, is spawned from the deepest desperation. The best music, it’s said, is made by those who’ve seen the worst of life.

Official site: http://www.boykillboy.com/

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/boykillboy

“Suzie” Video Streams:

WM Hi:http://www6.islanddefjam.com/www2/av_system/go.wvx?link=Lk2Voj6465453O8T7VGI22C5-75453

WM Lo: http://www6.islanddefjam.com/www2/av_system/go.wvx?link=r57M82nKDw655TwpdDXY82B8-75454

Real Hi:http://www6.islanddefjam.com/www2/av_system/go.rm?link=1C78i331B1Gq59556P91AFFC-75457

Real Lo: http://www6.islanddefjam.com/www2/av_system/go.rm?link=002041uX1L21DcY3tR6B82C4-75459

Boy Kill Boy US Tour Dates

June

1 – Seattle, WA – Showbox

2 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom

3 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore

5 – San Francisco, CA – Fillmore

6 – Los Angeles, CA – Avalon

8 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues

* ALL dates are with Charlatans UK