Interview: The Kik hasn't been a sixties band anymore
For the website https://writteninmusic.com/ was invited to interview The Kik in Rotterdam. The final result can be found via the following link:: https://writteninmusic.com/interview/the-kik-al-lang-geen-jaren-zestig-band-meer-op-nieuwe-album-jin-regeren-de-eighties/
“We can play everything and we can go in all directions with this band. You should not limit yourself to the sixties if you have so many other instruments with which you can do anything.”
It all started with the purchase of an analog synthesizer. Dave bought a clavioline, so he became interested in other old synthesizers, but more from the seventies and eighties. Not only the synthesizers make different accents, the bass does. Instead of playing on his old familiar sixties bass, Marcel Groenewegen plays on the new album on a Fender Jazz-bass with steel strings. The guitar of Arjan Spies also went through a chorus effect pedal. Two conditions were set for this new process::the band must stand behind the changes and continue to sound like itself; a new sound but still unmistakably The Kik.
Written in Music interviews frontman Dave von Raven and guitarist Arjen Spies about the new albumJin! Jin! Jin! Jin- Yes. It soon becomes clear that it was not a conscious choice to switch to the 1980s.“You give a song what it needs and that happens to have become a lot of eighties sound.”
