KIRK BRANDON – Biog 2014
Kirk Brandon is the voice of Spear of Destiny, Theatre of Hate and Dead Men Walking. With over 15 studio albums and countless single releases, his career now spans well over 30 years. He has enjoyed worldwide success with all three of the above bands and is also a leader in every punk rock poll by being the singer and songwriter in The Pack.
Over the last 8 years, Kirk has released five solo acoustic studio albums (the “Dutch Masters” series) that have pulled tracks from all eras of his career, these albums have featured many of the people he has worked with and collaborated with over the years including Derek Forbes, Slim Jim Phantom & Clint Boon.
The latest of these solo acoustic albums entitled “Dutch Masters Volume Five” has become, in it’s first year of release, the best seller in the series.
“DM5” features two outstanding Theatre of Hate interpretations, a James Bond theme and a Country and Western cover of a Ry Cooder tune !!!
Kirk has spent his Christmas break preparing a brand new show solo show for 2014, even some of his best known tracks (Never Take Me Alive, Do You Believe In The Westworld? & Young Men) have been dusted off and given a given a good spruce up.
The “aKoustiK nights 2014” tour kicks off in Brighton on February 20th and ends in at the beautiful Hermon Chapel in Oswestry on March 15th.
Joining Kirk on all these dates will be long time friend Dave Sharp. Dave, best known as guitarist, songwriter and sometime vocalist of The Alarm, will be show -casing a selection of songs that cover his thirty plus year career.
Vive le Rock! Magazine said “Kirk Brandon is one of the UK’s most underrated songwriters and ‘Omega Point’ is a fine addition to his arsenal of epic albums”.
Mojo wrote: “Kirk Brandon is on of the UK’s best kept secrets”.
The BBC’s Jeremy Vine says “@kirkbrandon is one of our greatest musical geniuses”
John Robb’s Louder Than War “Spear of Destiny are criminally underrated and are one of Britain’s best, Boys Own, punch the air, grandiose Rock’nRoll bands.
gettotthefront.co.uk “Brandon’s vocal is fuller, it is more powerful, it is more tuneful. But what impresses me more is his total clarity; not only vocally but his overall performance – he lives, breathes, screams, shakes these songs out of his body. At times he appears to be in the throws of an exorcism, bent double and shuddering rhythmically”
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