artist Kids On Fire

Born out of countless conversations - lubed with cheap liquor and a rock'n'roll soundtrack - about the necessity for a local punk rock band with urgency and reason, Kids on Fire got their start in the summer of 2008. It had been ten years that we were all tied together by the local music scene, playing in a number of bands. Much like new prison inmates, we'd been eyeing each other for a long time, plotting and collecting our cigarettes for when the time was right to claim our property and make sweet, sweet, loud, sloppy music together. After bribing tenants of Telfer house to give up a night of silence for a cheap bottle of wine (and boy did w get our $11 worth!) we finally began collaborating our efforts to realize the band we'd been - up to that point - speaking out of our asses about.

Touring, moving, no place to make noise and the general sketchiness of life kept things on hold for a while until Leif put his cabinet in his basement and declared that cement dungeon the "jamspace". Deciding to take the hermit route of playing music, we stayed in that basement with one goal: To have a completely fresh, original sounding album written, recorded and pressed on LP for our first show. None of this gigging around for a few years before giving the masses what they want! Our album should be ready to go the second our live show is.

September long of 2009 marked phase two of the project: Weekend Bender. Although none of us can attest to it, James informed us that we recorded 13 songs. All of which were recorded in 3 long days and nights with the three of us pounding it out face to face and live off the floor. Continuing with our ass-backwards approach to music, our album should be ready at the beginning of December, our first show December 19th and the last step, in true Wyld Stallyns fashion, learning our instruments (hopefully by the year 2013).

Our music combines the same elements of all of our loves - youth, viguor, urgency, passion, reason and just the perfect amount of sloppiness - all pulled off with a "don't give a f**k" attitude. The songs remain a statement on their own and need little to no explanation. Rather than wanting to create something brand new, we wanted to explore the classics styles that go untouched in today's music. The combination of which make for something new on it's own. A breath of fresh air for a dying punk rock world.