Kid Carpet Biography May 2013
Kid Carpet uses Casio keyboards, cardboard, sellotape and shouting to make peculiar punk folk disco music.
After releasing three albums and performing both nationally and internationally Kid Carpet has begun making theatre, composing music for others and has also presented a television programme for the BBC.
A champion of the lost and broken, Kid Carpet likes to use found sounds and objects which have been left behind by popular culture and attempts to turn them into superheros, repackaging them so that their simple beauty and innocence can be rediscovered.
Blast Off! (autumn 2013) will be Kid Carpet’s second theatre show for children and families.
Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals has toured comprehensively since spring 2012 and involves video projection, a live rock gig and a stage invasion/dance contest.
Kid Carpet also composes music for theatre, television and films. Clients include BBC2, Alex Cox, 8 Minutes Idle (feature film) and Tobacco Factory Theatre Bristol.
Further theatre and musical productions are currently in various stages of development.
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August 26, 2011 at 11:05 am
Gabriel
Hello Kid Carpet,
i saw your show a few years ago in Schaffhausen/Switzerland. It was great!
Now i wanted to ask you if you`re interested to play again here in another place (Cardinal/http://www.clubcardinal.ch/). Me and couple of friends run an icecream shop (www.elbertin.ch) and celebrate the end of the season on october the second. Would you be interested to play then? Maybe we could find you another gig the day before to share the costs. What do you think?
Kind regards
Gabriel
April 6, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Mrs F
Came to see Kid Carpet and Noisy Band at Birmingham MAC – we (the supposed grown ups) loved it loads and so did our 5 year old. We haven’t stopped singing ‘Bear on a Boat in a Bath’ and ‘Doin a poo in the forest’. We would love to see the show again!
April 11, 2012 at 9:20 pm
Gwennan
Saw the show in Cardiff today with my 4 year old and 11 month old. Baby slept through most of it, but my daughter and I loved it – best kids show we’ve seen (and we’ve seen a few!). Excellent introduction to rock gig etiquette – I now feel confident sending her off to her first concert to mosh and air guitar safely. Thank you Kid Carpet.
April 11, 2012 at 9:46 pm
kidcarpet
nuff respect
they were really fun shows today. thanks for coming along *Kc
June 14, 2012 at 10:57 am
Jamie
We saw the noisy animals back in April at the New Wolsey. We all loved it, our 1 year old was hooked on watching all the visuals and he is not interested in telly at all. We loved the songs and we keep singing the counting song all the time (it’s more fun than singing the bog standard abc song at the dinner table). It’s our 5 year olds birthday party this weekend and he asked me this morning if we could have a dance contest, any chance you could post your template poster, I know he’d get such a kick out of it!