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Circus Kids

by Bike

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Brian Worthing
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Brian Worthing I was a Straightjacket Fits fan in the early 90s in the USA. Saw them in Cleveland when there were more people in the stage than in the audience. The band played amazing and like they were playing to a crowd of 1,000 instead of 3. I had no idea Andrew formed this band after he left the fits. So sad I missed out on this back in the day. In a perfect world, Andrew would be known globally for the great songwriter he was. “Messed Around” is a perfect song. RIP Andrew. You were amazing. Thanks. Favorite track: Messed Around.
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Wendy I didn’t know about Bike until after Andrew passed away last year, but I have been a big SJF fan for years and was fortunate enough to meet him back in ‘91 back in New Jersey at a small club they played. He wasn’t too interested in chatting, but I understood that it was about the music and enjoyed the show. I still have the EP he signed. He was such an amazing talent. I’m sorry he left this world so soon. I’m grateful to have found extra music in the form of B-sides by them here! Yay! Favorite track: Circus Kids.
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Circus Kids 03:29
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In The Dark 04:56

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"Wicked in ways, I don't know how many ways, the circus kids have come to our town".

Something wicked this way comes, indeed, as Andrew Brough's Ray Bradbury-inspired lyric kicks off the local contender for single of the year.

Circus Kids brings Andrew Brough's classic touch once more to a song based around his angelic voice, chiming guitars and a truly spine-chilling chorus. If Bike's 1996 debut single Save My Life, or Straitjacket Fits' timeless hit Down In Splendour (recently resurrected by Debbie Harwood) didn't have you convinced already, Circus Kids shows Andrew Brough to be our premier writer of majestic guitar pop.

The three-piece sound of Bike is the perfect vehicle for these songs. Andrew formed Bike in Auckland in 1995 to work on songs written in the two year hiatus since he had left Straitjacket Fits. He wanted a band that combined simplicty and power, that would drive these new songs along in the same way he had enjoyed in the Straitjackets and, before that, the Orange.

BikeBike recorded Save My Life and three other songs to make up an EP last year. York Street studio producer Malcolm Welsford (Shihad, Supergroove) was at the controls and Andrew found a real chemistry with Malcolm as they built Bike's studio sound into a huge wall of guitars, especially spectacular on Old & Blue.

Save My Life was a finalist for APRA's Silver Scroll songwriting award for 1996, and also earned Bike a nomination as Most Promising New Band at the NZ Music Awards. Bike's performance of that song at the televised Music Awards was considered by many a highlight of the evening.

Bike and Malcolm Welsford reunited at York Street at the end of 1996 to record the band's debut full-length album. As the first indicator of those sessions, Circus Kids is fully convincing with its spell-binding, world class sound. Neil Finn, a regular visitor to York St, heard this song and commented that it's "Proof again that Andrew Brough writes a damn good tune".

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released January 1, 1997

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Andrew Brough’s abrupt departure from Straitjacket Fits in late 1991 paid dividends for fans of his soaring, sixties-kissed pop ballads – a vital element of his previous group’s sound – when he re-emerged onto the national stage in the mid-1990s as BIKE. ... more

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