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"Stomps like a super charged cabaret horn section. When they really let rip, as in potty mouthed Glen Miller pastiche Big Sis Little Sis, they hit home with bawdy theatrical panache" (4 stars)
Thomas H Green, Q Magazine
“A musical law unto themselves, this debut is upbeat, cocky and, thank God, completely fresh 8/10"
Amy McGill Rocksound
“A demented mix of swing, jazz and ska whose old school styles combine with such unabashed euphoria it makes most current rock look instantly redundant. This right here is the kick up the bum music needs”
John Earls, Teletext
"Just the right amount of dirt under the fingernails attitude and punky/indie bite. This is as cool as f.... Single of the Week”
Sean O, The Organ Magazine
"Amazing: I predict this will spread through the country like a virus"
Shaun Keaveney, BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show
"Mighty, mighty refreshing"
John Kennedy, XFM
"A bunch of musical rogues!"
Steve Lamacq, Radio 2 New Music Show
"Ungodly, infectious melodies. The most entertaining band I've ever seen? Damn right!"
Lee Puddefoot, Artrocker
“White Light Fever has inevitably drawn comparisons with Mark Ronson's productions. The Kingsize Five dig deeper and wider though, pulling in everything from Glen Miller to Jerry Lee Lewis, sprucing it up with modern punky zest and sloshing it down with lashings of wit and pizzazz by the gallon"
Steve Hillar, The Metro
"A veritable slice of jazz infested, good time swing"
Mischa Pearlman, Fly Magazine
And if you don't own a pair of dancing shoes, this will inspire you to buy some."
Jon Blackstaffe, Blues in Britain Magazine
"A manic mix of rocking blues and jazzy, dirty swing delivered with riffed up panache"
Molloy Woodcraft, The Observer
"Combines grace and danger in equal parts. Purveys a rumbling sound that owes something to Louis Jordon and Earl Bostic as much as it does to Madness and Ian Dury"
The Word Magazine (I Am A Missile was also cover mounted on this edition)
"A fine celebration of human weakness set to fine thrilling refreshing music you can dance to – swinging jumping jiving big band blues, somewhere near jazz and just beyond rock 'n roll - go enjoy it, we weren't sure they'd pull it off over the length of a whole album, they more than did" Album of the Week
Sean O, The Organ
"A tangle of finger clicking beats and lung bustin saxophones that will make you dance so hard you will forget who you are. And you know what? You will love every second of it"
Lee Puddefoot, Artrocker album review extract (September edition)
“Brassy in more ways than one, the band kick up a shitstorm of showtunes (as opposed to a snowstorm of shit tunes) that are as potty mouthed and seductively burlesque as they are authentically rendered. With this much talent on parade the band should have no problem converting the unswung masses before long" (4 stars)
Backbone 24/7 Magazine
Just the sort of thing for the discerning music fan’s Friday night out. An album of intelligent fun, something in all too short supply these days. Treat your feet and your brain” (4 stars)
Jeremy Searle, Rock n Reel
“Sardonic retro combo deliver their brand of bluesy boogie woogie with punkish energy, to brash and brassy effect. Think Jools Holland with speed in his whiskey and you're not far off; this is feel-good party music given a shot of cool, if slightly knowing, humour”
Time Out
We are reporters and interpreters. We have a point of view and a perspective. We have lived and we are living. We are teachers, parents, dreamers, poets, musicians, performers. We are wankers, bullshitters, pricks and arseholes. We are clowns.
Indignities have been visited upon us. We have handled it with dignity: Even while dressed as chickens. When some of us were dressed as chickens others where playing to 55000 people in Hyde Park. Those are the breaks and the breaks can give you the Blues: We have the Blues, we don’t own the Blues but this is our take on it. It’s close enough for Jazz and some of it is Jazz. A lot of it isn’t.
White Light Fever is our story. It just happens to be a story you can dance to; we live in hope that you will dance to it with someone you like, or even love. A simple plan conceived without guile or a target market.
Chin up, cheer up and listen. We are the Kingsize Five. | | |
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