The Kings return to New York City for a concert at Bowery Electric on January 19, at 6:30 pm. Bowery Electric is at 327 Bowery (next door to Joey Ramone Place), in New York City.
Tickets are $10 ADV with service fees/ $12 at the door.The Ticket Buy Link is https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-kings-tickets-82294267369?aff=odwdwdspacecraft. The Facebook Event page is https://www.facebook.com/The-Kings-Are-Here-129367440437699/. The venue phone is 212-228-0228.The website is https://theboweryelectric.com.
The Kings feature original members David Diamond (lead vocals, bass guitar, songwriter), Mister Zero (guitar and songwriter), and Peter Nunn (keyboards) who joined in 1994, and Todd Reynolds (drums) since 2009.
While recording their first album at Nimbus 9 Studio in Toronto, world famous producer Bob (Pink Floyd) Ezrin dropped by to visit and checked the band out and liked what he heard. He agreed to mix the tracks The Kings had recorded but soon discovered that the whole thing needed to be re-done. He approached Elektra Records in Los Angeles with The Kings’ tapes and the unknown band was signed to a world-wide deal. Ezrin and The Kings re-record the songs for the album “The Kings Are Here."
Radio picked up the infectious, 5:43 song “This Beat Goes On/Switchin’ to Glide” and it caught on all over the USA and Canada with huge airplay in every major market, staying on the Billboard Hot 100 for six months. It was named one of the Top 100 U.S. Radio Programmers Picks of the Decade by Album Network Magazine and The Kings were named most promising group by Cashbox Magazine, and nominated for a Juno Award.
An amazing appearance on Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand” helped spread the word as well. The album “The Kings Are Here” went gold in Canada, and since it was re-released on cd as “The Kings Are Here and More,” combined sales have passed platinum status.
The second Ezrin-produced Elektra effort “Amazon Beach” did not fare as well and the band left the label and signed with Capitol Canada which released “RSVP” which contains the holiday classic “This Christmas” which gets lots of airplay every yuletide season.
The next studio project was called “Unstoppable”
and the title track reached the Top 10 in Canada.
Next came the studio album “Because of You,”
which once again showed the depth and versatility of the songwriting from The
Kings. After that came other different projects, “Anthology One” which is a
collection of rare early unreleased tracks, and what has become The Kings
amazing “Live Trilogy,” “The Lost Tapes of a Seventies Bar Band,” “Party Live
in ’85,” both audio only, and the DVD “No Covers-Live at O’Tooles Roadhouse,”
all of which document the energy of the band in concert. And also the great
documentary about the band’s biggest hit: “Anatomy of a One-Hit Wonder” where
the guys tell their own story with trademark candour and humour.
In 2020 The Kings will
release "Live at Heatwave" a half hour concert movie shot in
16mm film at the famous 1980 "Heatwave Festival" which was held at
Mosport Racetrack near Toronto which featured Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, The
Pretenders, the B-52's…. The Kings’ footage is the only surviving film
from the event. The lead-off single is a bodacious cover of the
Beach Boys classic "California Girls."
https://thekingsarehere.com/
L to R: Peter Nunn, Todd Reynolds, David Diamond, Mister Zero.
