2016 Schedule

Interactive: March 11–15  •  Film: March 11–19  •  Music: March 15–20

The Kills

Thursday, March 17
12:00AM - 12:40AM

Banger's
79 Rainey St

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The Kills formed in 2000 when a boy from Andover, England and a girl from Florida, USA met in a South London hotel. "It was like we'd lived parallel lives," Jamie recalls. Both had been to art college, the boy had just left a punk-pop band called Scarfo and the girl wanted to leave a punk-pop band called Discount, and both were disillusioned with the musical scenes they were part of. "We had these bedrooms on different sides of the Atlantic which were full of artworks and films and music that we'd made for no-one to listen to. We had so many things in common. It was at a time that if you spent a lot of time making art and dressing up you got beaten down for being pretentious. Everything was about being down to earth. And we both just felt this relief when we met each other."

Alison was so convinced that this was the creative partner she'd always been searching for that she decamped from Florida to Jamie's flat in South ...

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