XUK: Links

The King Cheetah: Our chums The King Cheetah's web site with all their strindent musings and interesting tidbits. Rob and Simon played on our album too. Of course, Robin plays bass in this band and he also recorded both XUK and The King Cheetah's albums. TKC's music might not be as pretty as ours but their album is another one that you should own! A thoroughly excellent piece of rock music from start to finish. Buy it too!
Wobbly Music: A record company in Simon's hometown of Accrington who were very complimentary about the XUK CD.
Web-art-links: A Classified Directory of Art Web Links
The Letter Openers: Matt Peter plays bass in this, one of the loudest bands in Los Angeles!
Bang Sugar Bang: Leading lights of LA's Kiss Or Kill Club, Matt Southwell played guitar on some of our tracks. If you're in LA attendance at the regular Tuesday night KorK bash is mandatory! See The LA Weekly for details!
Billion Stars: Billion Stars, another erstwhile Kiss Or Kill band, supplied some guitar noodlings in the form of Mr. Tony Lyman. email them through their site and tell them we want to see them play live more often. Brandon is one of the best drummers in LA. The other three are Ron Pak (XUK's drummer), Simon Hancock (TKC) and Robin Holden (who played the drums on the XUK CD)!!
Elly K: Elly K is an LA-based singer/songwriter who added some lovely piano touches to some songs on our album. She is of Russian origin and even sings some songs in Russian in her stage show. if you get a chance to see her play, just doit! You'll love her. What's not to love? Look for her album Breakfast with Chopin.
Nick Palance: Nick is an up-and-coming opera singer and a great supporter of the band. Eric, Simon and Robin played in a band that backed his performance at the San Genarro Festival in Los Angeles in September 2005. Simon played drums!
The O.A.O.T.s: Eddie, Matt and Ricky... Power Pop trio. Robin engineered and co-produced their first two CDs.
Buzzplay.com: XUK is featured on Buzzplay's web site. Buzzplay Presents XUK live shows in Los Angeles at places like The Knitting Factory, The Scene and On The Rox. Another site where you can rate us.
Kiss Or Kill Club: Held weekly somewhere in Los Angeles (last year it was at The Echo) this is a gathering of like-minded beer-swillers and pop/punk bands that'll have you thinking you are still in the early 80's before the music turned to crap! Come down and hang out. Eric and I are usually there if we're not playing a show somewhere. We once played a Kiss Or Kill show during the Sunset Junction Street Festival in 2005 but don't bet on us playing another KORK show...
The Next Big Hit Podcast and forums: XUK was voted on of the "Best of 2005" on this site.
Pulse Rated: This UK website has been featuring XUK's music both on their streaming internet radio and on Sky Satellite radio in Europe during 2005. Please visit this site and rate our songs!
Indie Airplay: A site that likes to feature XUK on their podcasts and internet radio shows! We were one of their Next Big Hits picks for 2005.
A N R Net: A place where you can post reviews and rate some of XUK's songs. Tell the world how much you like XUK!!