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Members from Incursa including McCarthy went on to form punk icons [[False Start]] and [[Goodnight Nurse]], which McCarthy still belongs to as a guitarist. Arts and McCarthy then formed [[Kids of 88]].<ref name="KidsOK">Tom Fitzsimons, "The kids are alright", ''Dominion Post'', 12 Aug 2010, p. 3.</ref> In releasing the first Kids of 88 album, [[Sugarpills]], McCarthy said that the duo tried to produce a variety of material rather than just the familiarly slutty "My House" and "Just A Little Bit".<ref name="KidsOK"/> Their style is broadly a fusion of [[electro-pop]] and 1980's style dance music. They describe it as "a cross between a late 80's police drama intro theme and a sophisticated [[super hussy]]".<ref name="Anderson"/> |
Members from Incursa including McCarthy went on to form punk icons [[False Start]] and [[Goodnight Nurse]], which McCarthy still belongs to as a guitarist. Arts and McCarthy then formed [[Kids of 88]].<ref name="KidsOK">Tom Fitzsimons, "The kids are alright", ''Dominion Post'', 12 Aug 2010, p. 3.</ref> In releasing the first Kids of 88 album, [[Sugarpills]], McCarthy said that the duo tried to produce a variety of material rather than just the familiarly slutty "My House" and "Just A Little Bit".<ref name="KidsOK"/> Their style is broadly a fusion of [[electro-pop]] and 1980's style dance music. They describe it as "a cross between a late 80's police drama intro theme and a sophisticated [[super hussy]]".<ref name="Anderson"/> A reviewer has said "while reminiscent of early 80s [[synth pop]], they aren't a direct copy of their antecedents. There's also a touch of 2010 [[punk swagger]] and [[adrenaline]], where dance can't ignore what's been achieved in [[R&B]] and [[hip-hop]]".<Tom Cardy, "Album of the Week", ''Dominion Post'', 26 August 2010, Edtn 2, p. 11.</ref> McCarthy and Arts produced the album themselves and worked with a simple technical set-up out of a bedroom.<ref>Jule Scherer, "Keeping it real", ''The Southland Times'', 21 August 2010, p. 1.</ref> |
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Revision as of 20:20, 5 October 2010
Sam McCarthy (born 1988) is a New Zealand pop vocalist and member (with Jordan Arts) of the duo Kids of 88.
Early life
McCarthy was brought up in Auckland in the suburb of Onehunga. He was educated at St Peter's College. McCarthy and Arts met at St Peter's and quickly realised that they were on the same wavelength. They were in the same English class. McCarthy has said: "As an icrbreaking exercise we were told to bring in our favourite song. Everyone brought in Limp Bizkit, but the thing that linked Jordan and myself is that we were wanky enough to bring in Jimmy Hendrix songs. We were both trying to be as cool as possible so we rummaged through our parents' CD collection as opposed to our own".[1] With Jordan Art, David Wong, Graham Scherer and Michael Pomare, McCarthy was a member of "Incursa", a St Peter's College band which won the Smokefreerockquest in 2004[2].
Career
Members from Incursa including McCarthy went on to form punk icons False Start and Goodnight Nurse, which McCarthy still belongs to as a guitarist. Arts and McCarthy then formed Kids of 88.[3] In releasing the first Kids of 88 album, Sugarpills, McCarthy said that the duo tried to produce a variety of material rather than just the familiarly slutty "My House" and "Just A Little Bit".[3] Their style is broadly a fusion of electro-pop and 1980's style dance music. They describe it as "a cross between a late 80's police drama intro theme and a sophisticated super hussy".[1] A reviewer has said "while reminiscent of early 80s synth pop, they aren't a direct copy of their antecedents. There's also a touch of 2010 punk swagger and adrenaline, where dance can't ignore what's been achieved in R&B and hip-hop".<Tom Cardy, "Album of the Week", Dominion Post, 26 August 2010, Edtn 2, p. 11.</ref> McCarthy and Arts produced the album themselves and worked with a simple technical set-up out of a bedroom.[4]