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KILROY
This week, Spotlight is on the Eastside and
catching up with Kilroy as the band practices for
a radio performance the following night. Kilroy
is one of Athens' slow burners; it's a much more
experienced animal than most of the bands
featured in Spotlight thus far,-but despite some
stellar recordings and great local reviews, Kilroy
hasn't quite broken into the big league of local
bands.
This may all be about to change, as the band
has over the summer been hitting the road in
its new van/ ambulance, shewing the Southeast
that there has to be room for a great-sounding,
multidimensional pop-rock group with a country
soul and a heart full of blues. Who wouldn't want
to see a band that has been compared to both
Magnolia Electric Co. and Galaxie 500?
The Kilroy lads, Keven Gilbert (vocals, guitar),
Mike Perkins (guitar), Brent Grimes (drums) and
Shannon Rupp (bass), originally came together at
high school in Cordele, GA, in the late '90s, but
it wasn't until they all arrived in Athens in 2003
that the rock reallybegan to roll. It took them a
couple of years to finish their debut album, but
they released a free EP along the way to give all
and sundry an appetite for what was to come.
The waiting has been worth it and The Violent
Jolt of the Copitol earlier this year received lo
cal critical acclaim upon its release. Not resting
on their laurels, the lads were back in the DARC
studio earlier this year laying down tracks for a
follow-up album.
Flagpole hung out in the basement and
chewed the fat on the patio as Keven Gilbert and
co. gave us all the skinny on Kilroy.
Ben Gerrard
Spotlight is a biweekly feature looking at newer or
emerging local acts. Next up: Titans of Filth. Is there a
band you’d like to see covered? Email music editor Chris
Hassiotis at music@flagpole.com.
Kilroy—{L to R) Brent Grimes, Keven Gilbert, Mike Perkins and Shannon Rupp -is playing at Tasty World on Tuesday. Nov. 28.
Q&A
Flagpole: Who's the hottie on the CD cover?
Keven Gilbert: The cover art of The Violent Jolt of the Capitol is actually Mike's mother
when she was an airline stewardess...
Hike Perkins: ...which is odd because we take ourselves quite seriously, but then 1 put
my mother on the cover, which is not funny, but it illustrates quite a lot about who we are as
* people because we take our families quite seriously.
I think we all come from quite a heartfelt place, so it's oddly artistically meaningful tc have
one of our mothers on the cover of our record, when she was 2& years old—our age—moving
to Atlanta from a small town, Greenville, just like we came to town. So that’s the theory behind
the cover. And the title is a Virginia Woolf quote.
Flagpole: Tell me about the van.
KG: On my birthday or Shannon’. birthday, my sister gave me a check for $2,000 which was
left over from student loans and stuff, and we were all kind of wondering how the fuck we were
gding to get the record pressed, and how long it was going to be.
So we spent a grand on getting the record pressed and luckily the hospital that Brent's mom
works at in Cordele had a couple of vans that had been sitting out for five or six years and we
called them up and they wanted $1,200 for a '95 Chevy van, wheelchair lift and all
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