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Officer Kicks are a British rock group who formed in early 2005 in Southeast London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Band Bio )〕 The band have released two albums to date. They have toured with The Script, Ocean Color Scene, Jack Penate, The View, The Hoosiers, Juliette Lewis, The Rifles amongst many others. They also headlined the Late and Live stage at Glastonbury, the BBC Introducing stage at Bestival and were amongst the headline acts on the main stage of the Secret Garden Party.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SGP )〕 In 2010 they completed a twelve date tour of Ireland with The Script and a fourteen date UK tour with Juliette Lewis as well as playing festivals all over Europe including Peace and Love and Sonisphere. The band also played a host of Harley Davidson Ralleys (H.O.G.) all over Europe (Spain, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany) which included playing with Metallica, Alvin Lee former Ten Years After frontman/lead guitarist, Manfred Mann, Sam Brown and Mötley Crüe. ==History== The group consist of school friends Jamie Scallion on vocals, Jamie Fisher on guitar, Michael Skorjanec on bass and Keith Wickham on drums. The name "Officer Kicks" came from a song the band wrote about a police officer in the local area. The band played their first gig in October 2005 at the Dalston Russian Club; the popular website Whisperin' n' Hollerin' gave the gig 10/10.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Early Review )〕 At the end of October 2007, Officer Kicks were signed to independent label We Make Things〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Label Site )〕 and on 23 June 2008 released their debut album ''The Six Grand Plot''. An early supporter of the band, Noel Gallagher first heard the group after receiving a demo that had been sent to his record label, Big Brother. Two years on he agreed to allow the band to record their debut album at his private studio Wheeler End. Others that have been permitted to record there include Kasabian, The Coral and Paul Weller. ''The Six Grand Plot'' garnered many hard copy reviews most notably from the ''NME'', ''Clash Magazine''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Review )〕 and ''Rock Sound''. The first single taken from the album was "Pictures of Me" and gained an XFM Radio playlist, ''Q Magazine'''s song of the day and the promo video was played on MTV1 and MTV2.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pics of Me Promo )〕 In 2008 they played the UK festivals Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party and Bestival as well as touring the UK a total of five times. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Officer Kicks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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