Summer Sonic 2009... Tokyo and Osaka

Wow, Our heads still feel like they are spinning... after far to many scary plane flights and energy drinks we are back home.

6th August 09-
Arrival.

Sonic Stage Tokyo.

Exploring...


Expensive hotel bar.


Tokyo 7th August 2009-

After show interviews...
Meeting Jonas from Mew...



Osaka, 8th August 2009

Backseat Pete...
Thank you so much Japan Summer Sonic, we loved every minute of this festival, see you all again in October for our headline Japan shows!

News Update Monday July 2009

Hello this is Kyte again!

I hope everyone is having a great summer, sitting poolside sipping Santana etc.

We will be playing Summer Sonic festival in Japan very soon, on the Sonic Stage. Also we'll be back to Japan in October to do a couple of special headline shows at club Quattro in Tokyo and Osaka.

Meanwhile here in England we'll be going into a studio very soon to work on the next UK release, which we're very excited about. We're having Tom's bedroom completely re-created inside a London studio.

We'll have more news soon, thanksss.

Kyte

News Update- May 2009

Hello... We thought it was time for an update on here...

Last month saw the release of our new album in Japan called 'Science for the Living' on the Rallye Label and we are really pleased with how well its been received. We will be heading over to Japan in August for Summer Sonic Festival followed by a tour in October.


'Science for the Living' will be released with a new track-listing for the rest of the world later in the year.


We have some cool things in the pipeline including a BBC6 session in June and we are planning to tour all over the place in the second half of the year with the new record!


At the minute we are just resting and rehearsing new songs.


In other news if anyone would like some Kyte merch you can now buy t-shirts direct from our myspace


Thank you...

Kyte.

School of Seven Bells/ Kyte tour UK 09.

Our first set of live dates in 2009 were with New York bands School of Seven Bells and Apache Beat here in the UK, both of whom were great company.


24th Feb 2009- Glasgow
The tour started with a drive up to Scotland for our second ever show in Glasgow at The Captains rest.

25th Feb 2009- Leeds

Making use of some free time on the way to Leeds we decided to explore our lovely English countryside.

Leeds Cockpit

26th Feb 2009- London

Sonic Cathedral at Cargo.

Watching School of Seven Bells from side-stage...
James From MAPS was DJ'ing at tonight show.

27th Feb 2009- Manchester
The Manchester Night & Day.

28th Feb 2009- Bristol
We ended up playing a surprise headline show in Bristol when School of Seven Bells had to pull out.


1st March 2009- Brighton
The last show of the tour for us is at Brighton Audio.
End of tour group shot!

European Tour September 2008

Kyte European Tour (part 1) September 2008

During September we got the opportunity to do our first European tour, playing in Germany, Poland and Switzerland.

The European version of our record is now available via Erased Tapes Records

11 Sept 2008 KYTE @ Pretty Vacant, Dusseldorf GERMANY
We made the journey from Leicesterhire to Dusseldorf Germany in one day.

12 Sept 2008 KYTE @ Lovlite, Berlin GERMANY
Berlin was fun although we didnt get to see much of the place.

13 Sept 2008 KYTE @ Panam, Leipzig GERMANY
We arrived in Leipzig early and had some rare time to explore the city.

Robert spots a Kyte article in a local music magazine. Cafe Panam resembled a Parisian cabaret club.

14 Sept 2008 KYTE @ Werkstatt, Chur SWITZERLAND
Today we took a long scenic drive to the dramatic town of Chur, Switzerland.

15 Sept 2008 KYTE @ Cafe Nepomuk, Reutlingen GERMANY
After playing Reutlingen in June at the outdoor Kurt Festival, it was nice to return to play in a local venue and see some familiar faces.

16 Sept 2008 KYTE @ Das Bett, Fankfurt.
Today we are in the modern city of Frankfurt.
Interview at local station Radio X.
17 Sept 2008 KYTE @ Vortex, Siegen GERMANY
We had also played in Siegen last year so it was cool to return and play a different venue this time round.
18 Sept 2008 KYTE @ Gleis 22, Münster GERMANY
We had heard some great things about Gleis 22 so it was a pleasure to go and play there. Our freind Luke Leighfield came along but unfortunatly we had to have an early night in preperation for our 4.30am start to get to Poland.
19 Sept 2008 KYTE @ Teatr, Czestochowa POLAND
The longest drive of the tour was today, 12 hours drive to the town of Czestochowa in Poland.


20 Sept 2008 KYTE @ Nexus, Braunschweig GERMANY
The the last show of the tour is at Nexus in the town of Braunschweig.
The stage reminded me of a living room.

28 Sept 2008
Today we leave Braunschweig and head home to the UK.
Thanks to all the people who showed us support on our time in Europe, hope to meet you all again. Also thanks to Backseat Pete and Robert Raths.

Thank you... Kyte.

We are heading off in November for part II of the European 2008 tour.
Dates are...

20 Nov 2008 Nijdrop Opwijk BE
21 Nov 2008 Motoki Cologne DE
22 Nov 2008 Babalu Münich DE
23 Nov 2008 Hafenklang Hamburg DE
24 Nov 2008 Bang Bang Club Berlin DE
25 Nov 2008 Die Scheune Dresden DE
27 Nov 2008 Piwnica 21 Poznan PL
28 Nov 2008 Face2Face Krakow PL

Kyte tour of Japan 2008.

After releasing our mini-album in Japan in September 2007 on the Rallye Label we were invited to do a 7 date tour during June 2008. We wanted to share some photos and memories of this amazing trip.

Friday 13th June 2008
We left the UK to fly to Tokyo Narita Airport which included a breif stopover in Paris.

Saturday 14th June 2008
After a 17 hour flight we arrive Tokyo-Narita airport, Japan at around 8am local time, where we were met by our two new freinds Fumi and Koji.

Soon after checking in we were able to get our first glimpse of Tokyo city.

A lot of fun was to be had on this Japanese drum game.

Tokyo by night: Tower Records, our first live performance in Japan will be here tomorrow.
Tokyo Karaoke fun... highlights included Peter Gabriel, The Killers, Justin Timberlake and Weezer.

Sunday 15th June 2008.
The day of our instore show at Tower Records Shibuya.

Jamie's guitar didnt do too well on the journey and needed some attention before the show.

We played a 4 song stripped down set to around 150 people and met every single one after the show.

.The display stands here were really impressive.

Backstage at Tower Records.

Monday 16th June 2008
Today is our first full show at the O-Nest in Shibuya district of Tokyo.
The view from the hotel in Tokyo.

Soundchecking at O-Nest.

Main tour support were the band Llama who were seriously good, as well as having the worlds coolest looking drumkit, check them out everyone!

Watching Llama from sidestage.

Tuesday 17th June 2008
No show today as we had to drive North from Tokyo up to Kanazawa. It took about 6 hours but gave us a chance to see some incredible scenery.

After arriving in Kanazawa Fumi took us to chill out at a traditional Japanese bathing house.

Wednesday 18th June 2008.
Tonight we play at The Social in Kanazawa, but in the morning had time to look around the town.
We visited the shop of our label in Japan... Rallye.

Then headed to do some photos in a really cool retro furnature shop.

Photo (C)Nana Harada

We also had just enough time to look around Kanazawa museum of modern art. Kanazawa Social.

Thursday 19th June 2008: Osaka
Todays show is in Osaka, Japan's second biggest city, the venue is The Sunsui.

Photo (C)Nana Harada

Nick was given a cool hat by a fan... Thank you Tomy.

Friday 20th June 2008

We had today off so we got the chance to hit Universal Studios Japan.



Saturday 21st June 2008: Kyoto.
Kyoto Urbanguild.

We were checking out central Kyoto and got caught in the rain.

Soundcheck...

Photo (c) Nana Harada

We climbed to the top of the venue for a rooftop view of Kyoto. The Hotel in Kyoto.


Sunday 22nd June 2008: Nagoya.
Today we travelled to Nagoya to play at a venue called KD Japon. It was the most intimate of the tour.



Soundcheck...
Monday 23rd June 2008: Tokyo
Today is sadly the last show for us, we return to Tokyo O-Nest to play a second sold out gig.
Firstly we did some interviews...

The show felt incredible.

24th June 2008.
Home.

Thanks to Fumi, Koji and everyone in the band Llama for allowing us to have such an incredible tour!

If anyone has any photos they took at one of the shows please send them to us... kyteband@hotmail.co.uk


We will be back soon!

Thanks... Kyte.