Yup, thats right...The band had to physically take their own stock into the Leeds branch of Zavvi last week when the financial crisis meant their CDs had not arrived through the usual channels by the single’s release date.
Their manager Rob Eaglesham explains: “The band’s CD was stuck in a warehouse somewhere due to credit crunch issues beyond our control, so last minute our label posted us whatever stock they had kicking around their offices. We were really lucky just to get it on the shelves in time for our performance outside the store.”
The open-air city centre performance last Monday drew a large crowd and the CD sold out in-store within minutes. By the end of the day, it was also out-of-stock at Amazon and HMV.com, the band’s main online retailers.
“There’s a chance Kinch’s single could climb higher next week,” says Eaglesham. “We know that a lot of singles people bought last week haven’t been dispatched yet and these won’t register as sales until they go out. We’ll just see what happens.”
Whatever the outcome, the single marks a seminal first chart success for Kinch and is another feather in the cap for the Leeds scene, which scored a second indie chart new entry the same week as Kinch’s with Wild Beasts going in at Number 15.
Kinch plan on celebrating their success in style at their Leeds homecoming gig at the Cockpit 3 on Wednesday night, which comes after a week of touring around England.
Old Fashioned Love/ Everybody's Talking About It is available from iTunes, HMV.com and other online retailers.
Kinch were featured on BBC1’s Look North as potentially the "next big thing" to come out of the region. ITV have since picked up on Kinch’s music and their songs have featured in Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and other shows. The lads themselves even made a musical cameo appearance on the new ITV show Houseguest. Not bad for a band who at the time were still unsigned.
As well as securing them their first deal, all the above has helped to boost interest in Kinch's live performances. Positive reviews from previously sceptical journalists have become a source of some pride for the band. “We don’t pigeon-hole ourselves,” says lead singer Chris Chadwick. “Some people hear that we’re quite funky and instantly condemn us to some kind of jazz/funk hell but we’re not like that. When they come to see us live, they see we just play good, catchy pop music. We have a laugh, put on a show and anyone can get into it. Preconceptions and boundaries mean nothing once you hear something you like.”
The band recorded their single at Leeds’ Touchwood Studios. They were keen to work again with producer Bruce Wood, whose previous credits include The Clash, Nightmares on Wax and more recently The Cribs. Bruce had engineered an earlier Kinch session as part of the Bright Young Things competition.
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