THE CITY KIDS 
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THE NEW VILLAINS OF PUNK ‘N’ ROLL 

What is inspiration, exactly? You might want to ask JJ Watt, frontman of hard rocking stalwarts The City Kids. As with a lot of bands that formed before the…

THE CITY KIDS drops a “Bastard” of an E.P and shoves Motorhead’s timeless R’N’ R back into the spotlight.

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The City Kids Motörhead tribute is exactly how rock n' roll is meant to sound; loud, obnoxious, gritty, dangerous, and like it's permanently one dirty glance away from getting glassed in the back of the bar. It's perfect.

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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…

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…

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…

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…

The City Kids – ‘Best Of You’ (self-released) Not to be confused with Welsh glam legends City Kidds, this is the new project from former Main Gains axe-slinger JJ Watt. ‘Best Of You’ is the first single from their upcoming…