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Photo Courtesy of Kid Fantastic
I Fantastic was chosen to perform at this year’s annual South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin.
al band brings power pop to Crooked Path
BY JACOB HUVAL
The Battalion
lias brought the nation gyrat-
Afmg hips; The Beatles intro-
-Jduced the world to hopping
nzi&s, and Marilyn Manson pre-
ited us all with the benefits of
cage-altering surgery.
Onjthe local level, Kid Fantastic
creating a musical experience
it prompts the listener into a
te bf constant head nodding,
it tapping, booty shaking and
ter bodily fun.
Composed of bassist Nathan
:Kolvn, vocalist/guitarist Tim
stin, guitarist Jason Schlater and
miner Adreon Henry, formerly
the band Kneegaskit, Kid Fan-
^■bears a sound that stands
^■rom most local bands, rely-
more on talent and band coop-
tion than pure distortion and
nd effects.
jen one hears the name Kid
tastic, one understandably
es to expect yet another
age esque punk band. But de-
te their name’s clever guise. Kid
tastic produces a sound far
punk.
Henry said he compares his
d’s sound with some fairly pop-
r rbck groups.
“We’ve been called the Cheap
icklof the ’90s,” he said. “One
guy said we sounded a lot like
Weezer, but I don’t know about
that.”
If anyone knows the secrets of
the local music industry’s virtuosi
ty and longevity, it is Kid Fantastic.
One comes to expect local bands
to play together for, at most, one
year and then silently, inconspicu
ously fade from the scene.
Just as their music does not con
form to mediocre expectations, Kid
Fantastic breaks the mold as a lo
cal band that can also be consid
ered a “serious band.” Kid Fantas
tic was established in 1997 and has
since played the local scene from
College Station to Dallas and be
yond.
Henry said one of his most
memorable moments occurred at a
party.
“We were playing at a frat par
ty, and Nathan was gone, so we
didn’t have a bass,” he said. “So
we just improvised some and
played some covers and took re
quests ... we ended up playing
‘Whiskey River’ about a dozen
times!”
There is no better evidence that
hard work and diligence pay off —
even in the music business — than
this homegrown, four-man wonder.
Following the debut of their
sophomore release, Revival Hits,
and two announced local perfor
mances, Kid Fantastic will be play
ing a midnight set at The Copper
Tank Brewery in Austin March 18
with over 500 other bands at this
year’s South by Southwest Music
Festival.
Approximately 5,000 musicians
and bands from all four corners of
the country applied for appear
ances at this legendary event, of
which only the 500 finest were cho
sen to perform.
Schlater said the band went
through painstaking and complex
procedure when applying to ap
pear in SXSW.
“It was really weird,” he said.
“We got in the application the day
it was due!”
Henry, although enthusiastic
about the opportunity to perform
at SXSW, said he remains humbly
confounded as to how Kid Fantas
tic was chosen.
“I’m not sure how it happened,”
he said. “I guess they just liked
what they heard.”
To any listener, however, the
reason is clear: talent. With pop
melodies and a distinctive mellow
rock, almost shoegaze, sound, Kid
Fantastic is a diamond in the rough
of small-town-rocker wannabes.
Kid Fantastic’s first album. Clos
er to The End, made definite ripples
in the deep and peculiarly warm
waters of the local music pool.
see Fantastic on Page 6.
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