The K’s set This Feeling’s ‘Big In 2020’ alight in January and followed that up with sold out shows Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow. This was there year!
Cue, covid19!
The Earlestown outfit’s inevitable rise to stardom has been curtailed. It’s not easy to survive in a band when Spotify pays you 7p for a million streams. These are more than testing times for the band and their fans.
However, on May 15th, they released ‘Valley One’ and proved they still have their finger of Britain’s cultural pulse. The solemn affair captures the aching isolation so many have endured:
“now I’m back home I am seeing your shadow from anyone”.
You’ll be hard pressed not to snigger at Dominic Cummings when frontman Jamie Boyle decrees “even Midas would find it surprising you’re out here devising a plan for me”.
Winston Churchill once said, “never waste a good crisis”. The K’s have used their diminished platform expertly here. This might still be their year yet!
*Image courtesy of Ricky Atterby.