No More Strangers: Kidnap Kids @ Funky Winkerbeans

I caught Kidnap Kids tonight at Funky Winkerbeans as part of No More Strangers. There are now four kids, as opposed to two, which adds a rhythm section to the lineup. These guys play the fucking cutest music you will see ever. They are like kittens playing with puppies in musical form.

If you haven't seen them before Kidnap Kids are fronted by two young ladies who banter excitedly with each other in between songs, which has them singing and playing guitar, keys and a xylophone. The girls singing is both folky and punk, but they have a rhythm in their voices and play off each other in a rapid well-practiced style. They sing about pedophilia, ghosts and having bits of your insides on your outside, but they do it in such a cute way that you can't help but feel uplifted after seeing them.

I missed Bible Belts, which was just Chris-a-riffic. He is usually pretty awesome to see.

The image is the first thing that turned up in a Google image search and may not have anything to do with the band. It's the cover of a book by Todd Strasser.

Dancing In Our Debt: Search Parties, Aaron Read, the Rub, Kellarissa & Rose Melbourg, Bible Belts

I went to Dancing In Our Debt at the Vancity near city hall last night. I won't get into too much detail as I suspect I will be reviewing it for Discorder next month. However to organize my thoughts for the review I will give you a brief note form rundown:
-better than the first one
-Rose Melberg and Kellarissa's duets were awesome, they did a cover from Nashville.
-speaking of cover's how about Bible Belts cover of "Superman" by the Crash Test Dummies. Also good.
-didn't hear Aaron Read at all because I didn't know he was playing. That bank is surprisingly soundproof.
-"There's no reason we can't do this stuff in Vancouver." —Harlan Shore from Search Parties

Kudos to VIVO and Signal & Noise for supporting the event.