Alternative artist Kid Bookie has announced a new album for release September 12th, ‘Songs For The Living // Songs For The Dead.’ He’s also dropped an insight into the album with new track ‘Scars.’
Merging multiple genres to create something unique is Kid Bookies style. Embracing his love for rock, metal and rap he fights against challenging expectations of black culture in the UK. He use’s his music to reflect and his time and difficulties growing up in London.
Kid Bookie has been thriving with coverage from Kerrang! And NME plus, award nominations for the 2022 and 2024 MOBO best alternative music act!
His upcoming album has 11-tracks filled with collaborations, Good Charlotte’s Billy Martin, Skindred’s Mikey Demus, producers Tom Mitchener (Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes), Romesh Dodangoda (Bring Me The Horizon, Nova Twins) and a few more.
Exploring personal heartbreak, self-loathing, and obsessions with death but also resilience and triumph, ‘Songs For The Living // Songs For The Dead’ is brave and authentic.
Bookie discusses his upcoming music “A lot of this album is about feeling inadequate. There are different facets and layers of that inadequacy, and it covers most of my inadequate parts, whether that’s my art or feeling inadequate in terms of love.”
The artist also comments on ‘Scars,’ his new single. “It’s about not being able to leave when you know you should. You’re in a mental torture prison, and you haven’t got the strength to leave. You know you should leave, but you’re scared, you’re hurt, and this is what the scars can make you do – people put you in mental prisons, and sometimes the only thing you have left to remember is the scars they leave.”
This year Kid Bookie is appearing at 2000trees and Takedown Festival as well as joining I PREVAIL on their EU tour over summer.
2024 TOUR DATES:
APRIL:
13 Takedown Festival, Portsmouth, UK
14 Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth, UK
MAY:
10 Velodrom, Berlin, DE w/I Prevail
1 Mitsubishi Electric HALLE, Dusseldorf, DE w/I Prevail
13 Zenith, Munich, DE w/I Prevail
14 Alcatraz, Milan, IT w/I Prevail
16 Kid Bookie, Gasometer, Wien, AT w/I Prevail
18 Spothalle Hamburg, Hamburg, DE w/I Prevail
19 AFAS Live, Amsterdam, NL w/I Prevail
21 L’Olympia, Paris, FR w/I Prevail
22 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, BE w/I Prevail
23 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, BE w/I Prevail
JULY:
13 2000tress Festival, Cheltenham, UK
