Kid Canaveral

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Indie pop will never die. That potted plant, that scabby hamster and your Gran - these will die. But indie-pop won’t. However, Kid Canaveral don’t want you thinking about death. They write songs about defunct teen magazines, with ‘ba ba ba’ choruses, and specialise in perfect-punky-power-pop to po-go to.

Formed in 2004, in St Andrews, they are David MacGregor (voice & guitar), Dan Sheehy (drums), Kate Lazda (voice & guitar), and Rose McConnachie (voice & bass). Over the past few years they’ve been busy writing and perfecting their noble craft, playing a barrage of live shows; notable gigs include opening for Joy Zipper, KT Tunstall, King Creosote, Camera Obscura, Glasvegas and Emma Pollock.

After re-locating to Edinburgh in 2006 they have performed at a number of festivals
including The Wickerman Festival, The Fence Homegame (for the last three years), goNorth and Glasgow’s ‘La Fete de la Musique’ - as well as receiving national radio airplay on Steve Lamacq’s BBC Radio 1 show and on Vic Galloway’s Radio 1 and Radio Scotland shows.

In 2007 Smash Hits was Single of the Week on Jim Gellatly’s XFM show and a video of
the single was featured on The Music Show on BBC2.

Second single “Couldn’t Dance/Teenage Fanclub Song”, released June 2008, has received yet more airplay than its predecessor, including in North America and Europe, with the band featuring as Jim Gellatly’s XFM X-posure artist in its week of release.

“super-infectious melodies The Magic Numbers would give their bushy beards for” Daily Record

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briantheideals wrote:
November 2009

i've been listening to kid canaveral radio a lot on my lastfm app on the iphone, thrown up some gem's, along with your tunes, we've eventually done a page here, i've stuck you on similar artists, http://www.last.fm/music/the%2520ideals%2520radio?ac=the%20ideals%20rad

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yeahyeahyeah909 wrote:
April 2009

Yay for Kid Canaveral! =D This may be extreme wishful thinking,but....come to Australia!! =]

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A-LIX wrote:
April 2009

Hi Kid Canaveral! Hope all good your end. I've created an event http://www.last.fm/event/1022585 to celebrate the launch party of the LIMBO LIVE VOLUME 01. Thanks for passing the word around onto your lastfm friends & looking forward to seeing you at the Launch Party Extravaganza, x, V.

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VanishingPeople wrote:
August 2008

Hey kids - here's our new listing

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sjwilliams82 wrote:
August 2008

David! Get your events sorted so I can see when you are playing in Holloway!!

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stevenross wrote:
March 2007

why are my many kid canaveral plays not logging on the artist page? hmmm - odd.

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