Can I please resubmit my choices for artists to watch in 2012?
I was sent a link to the ridiculously good video featured below about 10 minutes ago and it’s safe to say I’m already obsessed with the BIGkids.
I haven’t had time to do my homework so here’s a great breakdown of what they’re all about via The Guardian
NEW BAND OF THE DAY - No 1,206: BIGkids
The Goodies’ surrealist spirit lives on in this silly yet sassy Camden duo whose identities we can now reveal
HOMETOWN: London.
THE LINEUP: Ben Hudson (vocals, instruments), Rosie Oddie (vocals, bouncing).
THE BACKGROUND: Instead of something sombre and solemn for today’s New Band following the sad events of the weekend, we’ve decided to write about a Camden duo whose music is so sparky and bright it makes Ting Tings sound like Neil Young’s On the Beach. And even more cheering, it involves a surprise, a magic unveiling, because where up till now BIGKids have been masquerading as a mystery pair, we can now reveal who they are: Ben Hudson, formerly of Mr Hudson and the Library and sometime guest of Kanye West and Jay-Z, and Rose Oddie, the daughter of one of seminal post-Python 70s comedy trio The Goodies, the one with the beard and penchant for birds.
The Goodies’ surrealist spirit pervades the video to BIGKids’ debut single, Drum in Your Chest, which with its haphazardly choreographed sequences is more funky flashmob than Flashdance. In fact, we’re so impressed with what Hudson – who produces the music, plays the keyboards and sings on all the tracks – and Oddie – who also sings and co-writes the music and apparently “bounces round like a lunatic live” – have achieved here that we’re going to see them tonight at the Bull and Gate in London, where hopefully they will be repeating most of the aforementioned shenanigans. Although to be honest we’re more looking forward to the bouncing round business than we are the keyboard-playing malarkey.
Oddly – Oddie-ly? – BIGKids are also supporting Panic! at the Disco this Thursday at Brixton Academy, and we say that because they’re about as emo as Emu. Drum in Your Chest is the quintessence of that famous adage about how extraordinarily potent cheap music is. It’s not easy coming up with something this silly yet sassy, this kiddie-friendly and accessible. Just ask The Goodies. It’s madder than Madness. It’s Chris Martin and Lily Allen having a knees-up dahn the Old Kent Road. It’s so catchy, Rizzle Kicks will kick themselves. You can see why they might have wanted to keep their identities quiet: he, despite the rap cachet, has never really been cred, and she never quite took off as a solo artist. But there’s nothing to be sheepish about with Drum in Your Chest. Even the Snow Patrol remix – yes, there’s a Snow Patrol remix, for reasons which we cannot fathom – is Moroder-ish and, well, good. They’ve made Snow Patrol do something useful with their lives. ‘Nuff said, surely?
THE BUZZ: “Nothing short of a riot. Totally fun and mighty infectious.”
THE TRUTH: It’s the best bang-the-drum-all-day song since Bang the Drum All Day.
MOST LIKELY TO: Incite a riot at a nursery school near you.
LEAST LIKELY TO: Make Emu go emo.
WHAT TO BUY: Drum in Your Chest is released on 4 March.
FILE NEXT TO: Ting Tings, Rizzle Kicks, Chris Martin, Lily Allen.
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