Kid Kapichi

Emerging from Hastings in East Sussex, the boisterous and anti-establishment Kid Kapichi blend U.S. alt-rock influences with their core British indie punk identity. Throughout the second half of the 2010s they cultivated a local audience via self-produced singles and EPs, ultimately issuing their debut album This Time Next Year on their own in 2021. A subsequent agreement with Spinefarm Records led to the swift follow-up Here's What You Could Have Won in 2022, and two years after that came the high-octane There Goes the Neighbourhood.

The group first assembled in 2013 when housemates Jack Wilson and Ben Beetham started collaborating on material. After finishing “Ice Cream,” which later served as their 2016 debut single, the duo recognized their potential and brought in longtime school friends George Macdonald on drums and Eddie Lewis on bass. Wilson and Beetham soon split guitar and vocal duties, frequently performing at the hometown venue The Tubman. Further gigs and independent singles arrived in 2017, among them “Waster,” “Take It on the Chin,” and their self-titled debut EP. The momentum carried into 2018 with “Revolver” and the Lucozade Dreams EP, yet 2019 marked a notable upswing in visibility.

Radio exposure on BBC Radio 1 and 6Music for “2019” and “Glitterati” preceded the July 2019 release of the Sugar Tax EP. Late August saw appearances at both Reading and Leeds Festivals, while the rest of the year featured sold-out dates in London and Brighton plus a European tour supporting Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes. Recording for the first full-length began in earnest early in 2020, though the non-album single “Household Shame” appeared first in May after nearly a year without new material. Self-produced and independently issued, This Time Next Year landed in February 2021 to widespread critical praise. The resulting profile secured a contract with Spinefarm, a Universal subsidiary, prompting immediate work on the next record. Major-label debut Here's What You Could Have Won appeared in September 2022, its lead track “New England” featuring London grime punks Bob Vylan. Following an extensive 2023 tour alongside Nothing But Thieves, the band enlisted frontman Dom Craik to helm their subsequent album. Packed with vitality and sharp guitar lines, There Goes the Neighbourhood surfaced in March 2024.