Shin Kick — Live Videos

Some super sweet videos of Shin Kick from back in the day. Putting all of these in one place is probably the easiest way for people to find them. There's some pretty cool sets in here, that first show ever at the MRC and some of the classic shows at Dust. Watch me fuck up the lyrics to covers! Watch no one move as we play! Yeah!

This first one is from all the way back in May 2007 at the $1 show we played at the Music Resource Center. Here we cover Straight Edge Revenge by Project X, probably one of two times we ever played it live. It was our first show, and as I recall we basically played the demo and Brobleed. Menace to Society, my unnamed ska band, and Demagogue also played. Thanks to John Russell for filming this.

Next we have us covering Honor Role's "I'm A Nerd" at Dust in July 2008. I had no idea we played it so fast, or that I appear to have epilepsy. Thanks to Scotty for taping this.

A couple weeks later, Scotty filmed us again at Dust and doing another cover, this time Rise Above by Black Flag. This was always a fun tune to play, although it looks like by this time people were already getting a little bored of it.

This is from one of the later shows we played, in September at the Laundromat (actually the basement at Nihal and Mike Reeves' place). Might have been that show with the Libyans, but I could be wrong. We're playing Closed Venue, the first song we ever wrote. I also appear to have a wafro. Thanks to Scotty for shooting this.

Now, these were all I could find online, but there's a chance there are more out there. If anyone knows where one is or decides to upload one they've been sitting on for three years, let me know!

Shin Kick — Nothing More, Nothing Less

This was the second record Shin Kick put out, in early 2008. Since the first demo, we had gotten a new drummer, written a bunch more songs, and gotten somewhat serious about what we were trying to do. This was ostensibly a demo to accompany us on tour and sell to people so they could rock out to us later, but it ended up being our final release — our long-proposed 7" just never materialized. We recorded it on a vocal mic in Sam's basement, but sound quality isn't that bad for a single-tracked live set, at least once you get used to it. At the very least, you get a good idea of how we might sound live.

Unlike on the demo, all of the songs were original. I wrote the lyrics to about half the songs, Sam writing the others when he wrote the guitar riffs. You can hear a definite progression from the music on the demo as well, the newer songs being more varied, and perhaps even a little melodic. Sam was really on point with most of the jams. Anyway, as much as this meant to me, you should listen and come to your own conclusions.

Shin Kick — Nothing More, Nothing Less EP

Track Listing:

1. (Sh)In(Kick)tro/Closed Venue
2. Kicked Out
3. What Is This?
4. I Nailed Tony Hawk
5. Insanity
6. Time Off
7. Got Myself
8. Next Generation
9. Brobleed

Lyrics are available here. Oddly enough we never actually recorded Still Here, the song this zine is named after, but the lyrics for that are up too.

Shin Kick: 2006-2008

Marley — Vox
Sam — Guitar
Straume — Bass
Pat — Drums

Where do I begin? Shin Kick was the band that put Cville back on the map. It was a side project from the then-big M2S and Demagiggle, because Sam wanted to start an 80's hardcore band with me. We recruited Dre and Straume, recorded a demo that had as many covers as originals, played the single MRC show we ever booked, and had the maximum amount of fun possible. At the end of the summer of '07, Dre went to the farm and Pat stepped in to be our drummer. This is when things got serious. With a functioning band as impetus, Sam started booking shows at DUST. I can't begin to say how important Sam, and his connection to Curt at DUST, has been to the scene. At least 90% of the shows any of us played were there; it was literally vital. 

Anyway, months passed, xSKx played assloads of shows and almost as many sweet 80's covers, and Cville began to actually produce music, other bands forming to help out on those same shows. Eventually we recorded a low-quality EP in Sam's basement (while his mom made us lots of delicious food), and went on tour, the first band to do so since Insurgency's misadventure. For more on that, get in touch with me or read Got Myself #1. Unfortunately, we had kind of played ourselves out by the end of that spring; the sets were always basically the same, and it got to be more of a hassle to play than was worth. By the end of the year we had thrown in the towel. Maybe we weren't the best band, but we sure as hell tried. We were Charlottesville hardcore punk, nothing more, nothing less. No regrets.

www.myspace.com/angerattack

Shin Kick — Anger Attack Demo '07

This is the original demo that we put out half way through 2007. We recorded and mixed it in like an hour at the MRC in downtown Charlottesville. It has as many covers as originals, and Dre says ridiculous things somewhere in just about every song. Anyway, it has better quality recording than the later demo, but the vocals had to be censored a little bit due to the MRC's lyrics policy. Oh well, can't complain too much when you're recording for free. This upload is the re-release version, which has a live-basement recording of Brobleed from the short period when Pat played drums and Dre was on second guitar. Oh, nostalgia.

Shin Kick — Anger Attack Demo '07

Track Listing:

1. Closed Venue
2. Filler (Minor Threat)
3. I'm A Nerd (Honor Role)
4. Kicked Out
5. Straight Edge Revenge (Project X)
6. What Is This?
7. Brobleed

Here's the band bio from the hardcopy zine:
Shin Kick: 2006-2008

Marley — Vox
Sam — Guitar
Straume — Bass
Dre — Drums

Where do I begin? Shin Kick was the band that put Cville back on the map. It was a side project from the then-big M2S and Demagiggle, because Sam wanted to start an 80's hardcore band with me. We recruited Dre and Straume, recorded a demo that had as many covers as originals, played the single MRC show we ever booked, and had the maximum amount of fun possible. At the end of the summer of '07, Dre went to the farm and Pat stepped in to be our drummer. This is when things got serious. With a functioning band as impetus, Sam started booking shows at DUST. I can't begin to say how important Sam, and his connection to Curt at DUST, has been to the scene. At least 90% of the shows any of us played were there; it was literally vital. 

Anyway, months passed, xSKx played assloads of shows and almost as many sweet 80's covers, and Cville began to actually produce music, other bands forming to help out on those same shows. Eventually we recorded a low-quality EP in Sam's basement (while his mom made us lots of delicious food), and went on tour, the first band to do so since Insurgency's misadventure. For more on that, get in touch with me or read Got Myself #1. Unfortunately, we had kind of played ourselves out by the end of that spring; the sets were always basically the same, and it got to be more of a hassle to play than was worth. By the end of the year we had thrown in the towel. Maybe we weren't the best band, but we sure as hell tried. We were Charlottesville hardcore punk, nothing more, nothing less. No regrets.

www.myspace.com/angerattack