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[Edited by Stakker on 01-12-2014 15:46 PM]

Track was released at 9am this morning. Premiered on popular blog AlphabetBands with a rather nice farewell feature.

https://alphabetbands.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/premiere-kites-orwell-knows/

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Back in the early days of Alphabet Bands, one of the emerging artists we championed was London based electro-fop-pop combo, Kites. And by championed, we mean featured fairly extensively at the time. By the end of 2011 they were gathering good momentum and despite a quietish 2012 they kept on growing their fanbase, improving their live act and increasing their blog coverage. It got to the stage where the firework had been lit and we were all waiting for the big, colourful explosion of light and sound that would make us go ‘ooooooooooh’. We even included them in our tips for 2013, everything was set and then…

…nothing.

The firework fizzled out and, as we were all taught, everyone walked away from it, including, it seemed, the band members themselves.

Silence was in abundance where once there had been delightfully erudite, lyrically dextrous and danceable pop music.

Until now.

Yep, after nearly two long years of tumbleweed the Kites ensemble have dusted off their performing clothes, pulled the keyboard out from its box at the back of the garage and shared a new song.

Except, this isn’t really a new song and this isn’t really a return. To paraphrase revered philosopher LL Cool J, we’re can’t call this a comeback, because it isn’t one. It’s the thing Kites never got to say when they vanished, goodbye.

For those of us who had wondered where they went and what happened, for those of us who wanted closure, Kites have returned to put the lid properly on the box and bid us adieu.

Evidently the real world stepped out of the shadows, swept them up into its dark embrace and took them with it. Fortunately they have escaped its clutches just long enough to re-master what they had planned to be their first single of 2013 and instead has become their final single of ever, “Orwell Knows”.

Its four and a half minutes represents everything that made us love Kites in the first place. Infectious and upbeat in sound, Matthew sings like a performance poet, rhymes skipping off his tongue like a Wildean travelling salesman, exciting us with his patter and drawing us in enraptured by whatever he has to say. What he is saying, literally, is goodbye and it is, alas, what we too must say.

So, goodbye Kites, we know it can never be, but at least we got to share these last moments together, and we’ll always have the Scala.



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I still think it's a crying shame that the Kites' hiatus happened.
At least I got to see you perform live though.

Hand in hand is the only way to land
And always the right way round
Not broken in pieces
Like hated little meeces
How could we miss
Someone as dumb as this

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you moved sarf.....? you having babies, eating frozen yoghurt and believe Sunday mornings are for exercise whilst trixie and fife do ballet classes?



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I still think it's a crying shame that the Kites' hiatus happened.
At least I got to see you perform live though.



Indeed. Was a good ride whilst it lasted. Big grin

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Stakker wrote on 01-12-2014 03:44 PM

Indeed. Was a good ride whilst it lasted. Big grin



Turned out some great tracks imo. The article you posted above was right, just when it seemed you were set for big things...

What's next dude?

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Indeed. Was a good ride whilst it lasted. Big grin



Turned out some great tracks imo. The article you posted above was right, just when it seemed you were set for big things...

What's next dude?



Matthew has just taken up a 14 month secondment at the UN in Bonn so the one off gig is not going to happen for a long while.

I'm doing stuff under the Belleville moniker, but that's going to be fairly slow going...I've written quite a lot of tracks and some songs, but need to get a band together if I'm going to do a live/gigging kind of act.

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Stakker wrote on 01-12-2014 05:05 PM

Matthew has just taken up a 14 month secondment at the UN in Bonn so the one off gig is not going to happen for a long while.

I'm doing stuff under the Belleville moniker, but that's going to be fairly slow going...I've written quite a lot of tracks and some songs, but need to get a band together if I'm going to do a live/gigging kind of act.



I saw you'd posted a track under Belleville, will check that out Thumbs up

Hand in hand is the only way to land
And always the right way round
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Like hated little meeces
How could we miss
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Stakker wrote on 01-12-2014 05:05 PM

Matthew has just taken up a 14 month secondment at the UN in Bonn so the one off gig is not going to happen for a long while.

I'm doing stuff under the Belleville moniker, but that's going to be fairly slow going...I've written quite a lot of tracks and some songs, but need to get a band together if I'm going to do a live/gigging kind of act.



I saw you'd posted a track under Belleville, will check that out Thumbs up



Yerp. Different style on the first track, but got a few lined up, some with vocals from me, from Maria and others to be confirmed. Smile

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