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The Kills Return to NZ in March

The Kills Return to NZ in March

Wednesday, 21st January 2009 12:00PM

If you needed something to look forward to this year - this is it - THE KILLS are a coming!

Since NZ last witnessed the viscerally-charged, mean rock & roll thrills of The Kills live, a whole lot has happenened. The London-based duo of Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart have encountered all manner of edge-of-sanity kinds of stuff that we won't dwell on here -- but suffice to say it involved rapid country-hopping, hurricane-dodging, and creepy tabloid attention. Then there was the everyday stuff to deal with. The sort of creative anxiety, crippling hangovers, and returns to the scenes of many crimes experienced by many other great duos in history: Delaney & Bonnie, Bonnie & Clyde, Royal Trux, Suicide the list goes on.

More importantly, in the time since the band's last performance on our shores, The Kills' third album Midnight Boom was released, pounding out of radios, disrupting the orderliness of ipod playlists, and appearing on plenty of year-end ?best of 2008? lists for those who care about such things.

The crowning glory of their musical career thus far, Midnight Boom found The Kills crashing into an alternate reality, where the beats behind their noir sensibilities and fevered eroticicism meant tunes like U.R.A. Fever and Cheap & Cheerful busted their way out of the dirty gutters of The Kills previous residences and into areas signposted urban, with Spankrock producer Armani XXXchange, and this way to the hyper-modern dancefloor.  All this while The Kills continued to shine a light into those areas of your psyche which you try to keep hidden.

If you missed this remarkable band last time around, or if you saw them and had your thrill centres sent into overdrive, the return of The Kills to New Zealand should tell you one thing: you have to be there.

Do not miss out. Tickets on sale here now! 

Wednesday 25th of March SFBH, Wellington
Thursday 26th of March TRANSMISSION ROOM, Auckland (ALL AGES!!)

Tickets also avaialble from the following outlets from Friday 23rd Jan -  Real Groovy  and Fast & Loose.

Check out this pearla of a song:



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Total: 7 rss for The Kills Return to NZ in March
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Oh gawd I have to go!!!! I could probably go to school the next day but I am so far away!
Posted by merzkynadsat 3 years ago

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NOOOO It's like 4 days too early :( Gutted as
Posted by slo-giacco 3 years ago

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The date change is a total win, thank you!
Posted by guncheck 3 years ago

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IMPORTANT: Dates have changed for these shows due to clash with KOL.

Wellington show is now on the 25th and Auckland on the 26th (it was the other way around).


Posted by undertheradar 3 years ago

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yaaay! i've been waiting 3 years to see these two sexy mofos! yeah, forget kol, it'll be full of zm 'sex on fire' tweenies anyway, kills are where it's at.
Posted by charlottie21 3 years ago

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Yay The Kills! Love that song. Forget Kings of Leon.
Posted by appleetty 3 years ago

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Same night as Kings of Leon? This is a scheduling nightmare of Big Day Out proportions!

sadface.
Posted by guncheck 3 years ago



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