Chikinki

About band:

Chikinki - hip slinking frontman Rupert, plus Ed East (guitar), Steve Bond (drums), Boris Exton (synths) and Trevor Wensley (more synths) - certainly wouldn't be where they are today if they cared about such inconsequential things as names. In the 10 years since they started out, living like Monkees in a shared terrace house in Bristol, these (still) 20-somethings have had much more important things on their minds. Like shaking off every dance-rock/electroclash/indie-disco/new rave tag going to create their own unique brand of "glitch-pop-fuck-noise". "People have always tried to squeeze us into whatever dance scene is fashionable at the time but we just won't fit," smiles Rupert. "We're not a dance crossover band, we're a guitar band with synths experimenting in the realms of rock music."