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Young Knives
Signed to label: Transgressive
From: Oxford, Oxfordshire
One of Oxford's coolest bands, and also residents of Leicestershire's Ashby De La Zouch, nerdy indie-rock trio The Young Knives released their debut mini-album The Young Knives Are Dead (2002) on Oxford's Shifty Disco.
After being picked up by Transgressive some years later, the Knives' combination of arty rock, dark humour and pop hooks caught the eye of the buying public through singles 'The Decision', 'Here Comes The Rumour Mill', 'She's Attracted To' and 'Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer)'. Debut album Voices of Animals and Men (2006) is a melting pot of Mclusky, The Futureheads, Art Brut and even At The Drive In.
News
- 15/07/2008: Iceland Airwaves confirms first few bands
- 07/07/2008: ZOO8: the worst festival ever? Attendees speak out
- 07/07/2008: Gang Of Four confirmed as Offset headliners
- 01/05/2008: Exclusive: Wire confirmed as headliners at new London festival
- 23/04/2008: Watch: new Young Knives video
- 01/04/2008: It's Relentless: Ronson and Harris among new additions for Wakestock
- 17/03/2008: Chart round-up: Merciless songstress conquers all; Nickelback remain a mystery to DiS
- 03/03/2008: Chart round-up: a close shave
- 28/02/2008: Knifing the hand that feeds: band slag NME, DiS on eve of headlining show
- 08/01/2008: First acts confirmed for Brighton's Great Escape
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In Depth
- 29/10/2008: JD Set: The Winner's story
- 19/05/2008: Singles Round-up (19/05/08)
- 14/03/2008: Another dull knife pun: Young Knives in conversation
- 16/01/2008: The Weekly DiScussion: festival fever's early stages
- 26/09/2007: The Weekly DiScussion: are we one awards ceremony short of three-dozen too many?
- 17/08/2006: V Festival: the DiS preview
- 09/03/2006: DiS meets The Young Knives
- 04/08/2005: We like trucking and we like to truck. Truck Festival 2005: reviewed
- 09/06/2005: Stocks n' Roll (Or How Bands Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Money)
- 29/03/2005: “We should offer a free trumpet with the CD and then the last part you play yourself!”
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Releases
Reviewed Events
- Sun 24 Nov at London Camden Barfly
- Thu 21 Jul at London Islington Academy
- Mon 07 Nov at London Highbury Garage
- Mon 15 May at Nottingham Rock City
- Truck Nine - Day 2 (Sunday), Sun 23 Jul at Steventon Hill Farm
- Summer Sundae Festival, Fri 11 Aug at Leicester De Montfort Hall
- Wed 16 Aug at London Camden Proud Gallery
- Mon 29 Oct at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms
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