{"id":26764,"date":"2025-07-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26764"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:27:10","slug":"city-kidds-south-glam-roxx-steelheart-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26764","title":{"rendered":"City Kidds – ‘South Glam Roxx’ (Steelheart Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For some of the old-time glammies out there, especially those from the boulevard of broken eyeliner pencils and lipsticks – the arrival of this CD is a welcome time machine to when Bogiez ruled the rock scene of Cardiff and in general South Wales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lovingly put together by the Kidds\u2019 bass player extraordinaire Stevie C. Bright – \u2018South Glam Roxx\u2019 is the long-awaited official release of the various recordings, as part of \u2018The Lost UK Jewels’ collectors series. The songs here feature a plethora of South Wales\u2019 finest rockers! These include Jamie Kall, Josie St John, Kane, Kelly Valentine, Kerry Wild, Stevie \u2018C\u2019 Bright, Steve Marie, Johnny Evermore, Mick Vallace, TigerTailz drummer Matt Blakout and Ian Danter. As you can see there was something of a revolving door on the band\u2019s line-up over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst the band are forever etched as the quintessential – should have been bigger or even came out at the wrong time – band. What this release finally achieves is that the potential of the City Kidds outweighs any doubt that this band actually had the songs to back up the outrageous image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the recordings here have been available on various unofficial bootlegs – it is great to finally have them all in one place and given the aural updating that truly highlights the magic of those original recordings, which were made in the late \u201880s and early \u201890. So to have them sound this great after over 30 years is truly remarkable and a testament to the music and songwriting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, let\u2019s get down to the music, as that is the reason we\u2019re all here for. Starting the CD is the two tracks that made up their only other official CD release, and that\u2019s the bubblegum pop whammy of \u2018Generation Love\u2019 and \u2018Tonight\u2019. I remember actually buying this CD single back in 1992 from Eccentrix in Cardiff, where it used to be advertised by the door alongside the shop’s usual merchandise of PVC and leather chaps. Also, I am a sucker for an over-the-top glam cover and this delivered on all accounts. So hearing this again after all these years was a pure nostalgia trip down the glam memory lane. Of the two songs, Generation Love has fared better, but they both are fantastic in their own right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that kick-ass start, we go back to the band\u2019s 1989 \u2018Dressed To Kill\u2019 demo and the demo\u2019s title track and \u2018Street Tease\u2019. Which, back in the day, was hailed by the late Kelv Hellrazer as something really special. Kelv is also singled out guitarist Kelly Valentine – a possible new glam guitar god. Much praise from the glam pioneer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following on from there is the three songs that made up the Atomic demo from 1990. These songs – \u2018Out For The Count\u2019, Hit \u2018N\u2019 Run\u2019 and \u2018Atomic\u2019, continue where the previous demo left off. Featuring new singer Josh Kane the demo took the promise of the first one and raised the bar again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next batch of songs were recorded at the famous Rockfield Studios in 1992 and again show a new maturity in the songwriting amongst \u2018Broken Glass Stare\u2019, Nowhere\u2019 and \u2018Perfect 10\u2019. It\u2019s these songs that show how much promise the band were in control of and also highlight just how unfair the music business really is. For if these songs were released only a couple of years earlier, who knows where the Kidds or as they later became, Sons of God would be right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last three bonus tracks are for me the hidden gems – with the band winning a Red Dragon FM Battle of the Bands contest back in 1988, the songs that were played are now released for the very first time – namely \u2018Edge of the Night\u2019 and \u2018Lost Without your Love\u2019. Both are clearly of their time and show a band in their infancy, but the potential was always there to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So basically, if you love the late \u201880s glam scene and the likes of Poison, TigerTailz, Tuff etc you need this in your collection. Be quick, though as there are only 500 copies being made. Not only that, in buying the CD you will be helping to raise money for Cancer Research UK and comes complete with liner notes by Rob Evans and Stevie \u2018C\u2019 Bright as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Dave Prince<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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