Kev Rowland
Brothers Chris and Mikey Jones have played together in various incarnations since the early 80’s, when they were still at school. Chris took up lead guitar and Mikey the bass and vocals. They created Kick in 1998 when they joined forces with singer Nick Workman (now with Vega) and between then and 2004 they released three well-received albums. Nothing has been heard from Kick since then, but that is about to change with ‘Memoirs’, which was originally planned to be a solo album from Mikey. He and Chris decided to release it under the Kick name, even though Nick was too busy to get involved and instead Mikey provided all the vocals The result is an album that makes one think that the last 25 year s or just haven’t taken place as what we have here is a melodic hard rock album that belongs firmly in the mid-Eighties. Heavily influenced by classic Leppard, with touches of bands like Dokken, this is an eighties bad hair day all over again.
Mind you, there will be some that say that this should have stayed there as while here is nothing inherently awful about this, there is nothing wonderful about it either. It is one of those albums that while it is playing it brings a smile to the face of the listener, but as soon as it is finished it is instantly forgotten and there is little that makes one to put it on again. It is never anything more than okay at best, but it will be interesting to see if this gets the complete band going again and hitting the road. www.kickuk.com and www.escape-music.com