It’s Kapee-chee. It’s Ben Beetham (guitars, vocals), Eddie Lewis (bass), George Macdonald (drums) and Jack Wilson (vocals, guitars). Four twentysomethings with big personalities from Hastings who’ve been making music together for over half their lives, in various configurations. Working in pubs, construction, motorcycle trade, anything. Driving nightshifts just to keep playing. Eight years of non-stop graft. “The bands that make it are the ones that don’t give up,” says Eddie. “We’ve sacrificed everything. Normal jobs, settling down, we put our lives completely on hold for our dreams.”

And the four have dreamed up something special as Kid Kapichi. A behemoth of a band on and off stage thanks to the Hastings scene that nurtured them, until they got their big break from Frank Carter - he invited them to play his birthday party then join him on a major tour. Their best songs explore racism, in-work poverty, mental health, violence, frustration and all-consuming love with honesty and humour. All their songs come studded with barbed wire hooks, bristling with the juddering shock of lived experience, the cathartic thrill of a balled-up fist relaxing into an air punch.

After putting out debut album This Time Next Year independently in 2021, the band recently signed their first proper deal for follow-up Here’s What You Could Have Won. Deserved reward for all that graft. These 11 new songs are an excellent showcase for the band’s bigger, punchier, ‘beat punk’ sound, produced with Dom Craik from Nothing But Thieves. 

Comeback single New England in January 2022 is their most explicitly political song yet, with a searing guest verse from Bob Vylan. It’s a brutal dissection of the xenophobic Little England mentality. They followed it with Partygate polemic Party At No. 10, praised by Liam Gallagher on Twitter, which they tried to debut with a busking performance outside the nation’s most infamous rave venue - before being dissuaded by Downing Street’s armed police. That won’t stop Kid Kapichi for long, though, as they’re touring the new album around the UK and Europe well into next year. Get involved.

3 piece synthpop coming out of West Yorkshire.

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Introducing Tibican, Kent based collective with ‘a beautiful sound and a big heart’. First release ‘When You Love Your Love’ was grabbed by BBC’s Abbie McCarthy and soon followed with features from DKFM California and a support slots at London’s The Borderline & 229 Club. Delving in self-confessed ‘Indie-Alt Pop’ the guys take inspiration from the likes of Oasis & The Smiths while echoing the sounds of Foals, Wolf Alice and Kings of Leon. Musically the guys carve huge and melodic indie anthems based around emotionally driven lyrics, rolling basslines and euphoric walls of noise.

Reaping continued support, the guys independently released their first single ‘Your Kisses Work’ across all distributors in aid of global Lupus charities; Lupus UK, The Lupus Foundation of America & St Thomas Lupus Trust. Achieving 12k Spotify hits and features in ItsAllIndie, BBC Introducing & Scruff Of The Necks’ Weekly Top 5; This was then followed up with their joining forces with AWAL. Other highlights include airtime across radio station in the US, South America & Europe as well as premiere features in ItsAllIndie, LouderThanWar, Artrocker, ListenWithMonger among many others. 

‘Huge sound’ – Abbie McCarthy, BBC Radio 1/ BBC Introducing

‘A beautiful sound and a big heart’ – ItsAllIndie

‘They are bloody immense’ – Primal Radio 

 ‘Vocally sublime & instantly addictive’ – PR Reviews

 ‘A sound flatteringly likened to that of giants Foals and Wolf Alice’ – Louderthanwar 

‘A real corker’ – DKFM California

‘A hazy and uplifting track built around a rolling bassline and euphoric walls of noise’ – Scruff Of The Neck

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FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/tibican 
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Tibican_UK
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