Any band that uses Twisted Sister’s ‘The Kids Are Back’ as their intro is sure to garner my attention and that is exactly what The City Kids did and got. As the intro tape came to a conclusion a crunching…

THE CITY KIDS are alright 

Anyone who knows the mean streets of the Scottish town of Dundee should be wary of angry-looking men in biker leathers.  The City Kids are around and mean business.  Killer music is their business and…

Dementia Aware Fest Wolverhampton 2021 - Part 1 headliner announcement💥 

Bringing their beautiful noisy mess, and featuring some of your favourite misfits from; Tigertailz, Warrior Soul, The Main Grains and Falling Red..we are thrilled to announce The City Kids as…

I go around adding people to Facebook with the hope of finding that new CD that really grabs my attention. Sometimes, it doesn’t work but this time....... The City Kids are a bit of a supergroup in ways, they all…

THE WILD GET RECKLESS 

Organisers of Call of the Wild Festival have responded quickly to the inevitable loss of a handful of bands after being forced to reschedule the festival due to the outbreak of coronavirus. The sad loss of…

Picture the scene; You’re the guitar player in a cool punk n roll band with a member of The Wildhearts, you release a well-received mini-album, a couple of singles, do a bunch of great support gigs with cool bands, even…

THE CITY KIDS release their booming debut album.

THE CITY KIDS debut ‘Things That Never Were’ shoves ‘n’ pulls with a sleaze infused Rock ‘N’ Roll indignation that snarls like a rat caught in a trap. Opener ‘The Best Of…

A light in the dark you might call it, just as I’m at the inevitable loose end due to the pandemic sweeping across the entire globe this little gem dropped into my inbox. 

I have in front of me the…

UK punk n roll band The City Kids will unleash their debut album on their Very Fried Artists label, Things That Never Were, on 15th /05/ (subject to current conditions). Pre-order will go live 30/03/ at www.thecitykids.co.uk/store and via Cargo…

The short-lived (and much missed) blistering career of The Main Grains is possibly responsible for The Wildhearts original line up reforming and then recording 2019’s album of the year, the unsurpassable ‘Rennasaince Men’. The Main Grains initiated (former Wildhearts) bassist…

New Northeast supergroup THE CITY KIDS have just released their debut single and are premiering the video exclusively with Vive Le Rock! 

Put together by JJ Watt from THE MAIN GRAINS, the band also features Dennis Post (Warrior Soul, Flush…

The City Kids have released today, 24 January 2020, their first single ‘Best Of You’, taken from the upcoming album Things That Never Were. The City Kids is a project of JJ Watt, the former rhythm guitarist of The Main…