Kicker

Jill Drew and Phil Sutton (Comet Gain and The Soft City) started UK band Kicker in 1998, releasing their first single in 1999, on the Rough Trade Shop imprint ForUs. Four more singles followed, on various lables, which were compiled together as their first CD 'Fivefortyfives' (Track and Field) in 2002. After a few line-up changes the original core line up of Drew, Sutton, Laura Bridge (Harper Lee) and Andy Jones were joined by Ben Phillipson. This line-up recorded their second collection 'Our Wild Mercury Years' (Track and Field) in 2005. Following the departures of Jones, Bridge and Phillipson (to concentrate on his own band, The Eighteenth Day of May, Sutton and Drew put the group on hold.

Line-up:

Jill Drew, Phil Sutton, Laura Bridge, Andy Jones, Ben Phillipson, Cat Cormack, Jax Coombes (also Comet Gain & Velocette), BeatriceHatherley.

Post the group: in 2008 Phil Sutton moved to New York and started another group The Soft City, with Dora Lubin (Black Max) and Jason Corace (A Boy Named Thor). Andy Jones currently plays bass for The Silver Abduction.



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