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You too should vote for the Kingston Cruisers so you can kick off the 2009 festival season with us at the Pannonia Fesztivál in Várpalota! Voting runs until January 31 on the festival's website.
http://www.pannoniafesztival.hu/szavazas/
See you in May in Várpalota!
Kingston Cruisers is launching a freestyle remix contest for the young and old, for beginners and pros alike! Make your own reimagined version of the song Equal People! If the jury – made up of members of the Kingston Cruisers band and standouts of the Hungarian music scene (Vígh Arnold, Deseő Balázs) – picks your work as the best, then on top of pocketing valuable prizes, your track will also land on the first-ever Kingston Cruisers album, due out in March!
At Saturday's hugely successful record launch, 100 lucky fans already got their hands on the forerunner of our 2009 album – our maxi-single titled KC. To them (and, of course, to everyone who shows up later too!) a huge thank you for the fantastic party at Dürer!
As promised, you can still order the CD in limited quantities at shop@kingstoncruisers.hu. This release is distributed exclusively by the band, and we'll accept email orders until January 15, or while stocks last. Don't forget to include your exact address and name in your message, and we'll post the record straight out to you – you can collect it from the postman for 700 Ft + postage.
On December 18, SkaPeti will be the guest on the PASO Ska Club show on Tilos Rádió. You can catch the show from 2 PM on Tilos Rádió, but if you happen to miss it, you'll be able to download it later from their archive.
Our singer recently gave an interview to FOOTER.HU, from which you can learn a few things about Evelyn, the band, and a few upcoming KC-related events. Click here!
You can find a new KC slideshow featuring our song Lose My Head on YouTube! With loads of concert photos – everyone can spot themselves in them! Click here for the video!
After the long break, you'll first be able to catch us on November 28 at the After Music Club, then on December 13, taking up LK Beat's invitation, we'll take over the Bridge stage in Győr. Finally, on December 20 we're throwing a huge Christmas party in the main hall of Dürer kert, joined by Kettő Kettő, Shanti Ska Tones, and Sound Sistaz. For this night only, in the spirit of the approaching holidays, we'll also bring a little surprise for everyone curious about the album in the works.
With the studio work wrapped up, Kingston Cruisers are hitting the stage again – a few dates have already gone up on the website, and the gig list will be growing soon.
Those of you eager to hear the new recordings won't have to wait long either, because a limited-edition maxi record will be ready soon, featuring 3 tracks from our full-length album due out in the spring.
Read more here!
You can read a new interview with SkaPeti on the HírExtra portal!!!
The gallery has been updated too – you can now check out the photos taken at Millenáris as well.
We're happy to announce that the Kingston Cruisers crew has grown by a new member – from now on Herold Peti is also reinforcing the KC horn section as a member of the band. You could already hear him playing with us at the last few concerts, but if you happened to miss those gigs, don't worry, because on June 21 we're playing at the Millenáris for the Fête de la Musique and the Night of Museums. You can find the details and the other new dates under the concerts.
The gallery on the site has been updated too – a few photos from the recent A38 concert have gone up as well.
The May 12 article on PASO's birthday blog is about Meskalin and what the members have been up to since – SkaPeti among them.
And here's the question: What is the title of the song we're about to record?
The answer can be found on our website.
Send us your answers in the guestbook! We'll get back to the winners at the e-mail address you provide there, so don't forget to enter it correctly, and in the title field please write Prize Contest.
On the Skaland portal you can read an interview with SkaPeti, in which he talks about the band's past two years and its future plans as well.
Over on the Tiara Magazin portal you can read an interview with Evelyn, where you'll learn a bit more about her than our website would otherwise reveal.
We are delighted to let all our dear friends, acquaintances, and fans know that our visit to the 2008 Fringe festival, and our unforgettable concert there, did not go without consequences: the Kingston Cruisers band received a special award from the jury and the ADSR studio, thanks to which we will soon head into the studio and finally lay down a track with Evelyn too!
By the way! The list of the 90 most successful bands of the Fringe Festival can be found here, and the list of the award winners here. Thank you to everyone who supported us this time as well – without you we would get nowhere!