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THE BEST KIDS CHRISTMAS ALBUM IN THE WORLD EVER EVER EVER!!!
CD Available Monday 11th December
Tracklisting
1. KIDS Allstarz - Merry Christmas Everybody
2. Oppenheimer - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
3. It Hugs Back - Christmas on the Square
4. The Wombats - Is This Christmas?
5. Mighty Six Ninety - White Christmas
6. The Young Playthings - Whadaya Want for Christmas
7. West End Girls - Always on my Mind
8. Findlay Brown - Last Christmas
9. Popular Workshop - Christmas Wrapping
10. Sam Elliott - Walking in a White Christmas
11. Captain Kidd - Boxing Day Ride
Capping off a spectacular year which
has seen releases from The Whip, Assembly Now and The WOMBATS amongst others,
KIDS is proud to soundtrack your festive season with The Best KIDS Christmas
Album In The World…Ever Ever Ever!!! A combination of original Christmas songs
and reinterpretations of traditional favourites by the best unsigned talent
in the UK and beyond, the album is limited to 500 bargain-priced CDs. All profits
will be donated to the NSPCC.
The album opens with a hi-octane blast through Slade's 'Merry Christmas Everybody' by KIDS Allstarz, featuring label staff along with members of KIDS alumni Paper Cuts, before Oppenheimer comprehensively knock covers by U2 and Mariah Carey into a cocked hat with their definitive version of the Spector-penned 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)'.
Other reworkings include Findlay Brown's achingly melancholy version of Wham's 'Last Christmas', and Popular Workshop's frenetic take on The Waitresses' 'Christmas Wrapping'. Perhaps the most surprising contribution is from West End Girls, two Swedish 17-year-olds who specialise in Pet Shop Boys covers (and are a Top 5 act in their home country), with their fizzing synth-pop cover of 'Always On My Mind', a Christmas number one in 1987.
The claim in the album's title is also backed up by some majestic pop gems written specially for KIDS, which put the vast majority of previous Christmas ditties to shame. The WOMBATS' 'Is This Christmas' is a typically rollicking indie-pop blast, and will stick in your head until long after the tinsel comes down. Also present is the dangerously catchy 'Whadaya Want For Christmas' by The Young Playthings, and 'Christmas on the Square' by indie darlings It Hugs Back.
KIDS launched in November 2005 and, having only just reached its first birthday, already boasts a back catalogue of nine acclaimed releases and has acted as a springboard for bands such as iLiKETRAiNS (Beggars Banquet) and The Whip (Lavolta) to sign to bigger labels. The label also won praise from The Times and the Evening Standard when it became the first UK label to give away free, unprotected MP3s of the tracks to all vinyl buyers, allowing them to listen with ease on any digital music player.
Album launch gig: 13 December London 93 Feet East: The Wombats + West End Girls (over from Sweden!) The Young Playthings + Findlay Brown
"The KIDS label is quite fantastic and wicked" Drowned in Sound
"An ear for a tune, and an ever-impressive roster" High Voltage
"Some of the best music this year has been released on the KIDS label" Indie MP3
