Future Kings Of Spain - Your Starlight The new single - CD / 7” vinyl (Red Flag Records) Released: Monday 9 June 2003 Track list: 1. Your Starlight 2. Kick It 3. Let’s Wait A While Irish trio FUTURE KINGS OF SPAIN precede the release of their eponymous debut album with their second blistering single - Your Starlight backed with new tune Kick It and an eclectic cover of Janet Jackson’s Let’s Wait A While. If ever a single showcased a band’s versatility then it has to be this one. The lead track on the new Future Kings Of Spain single - Your Starlight - first surfaced as a B-side to their debut release ‘A Place For Everything’. So critically acclaimed were both initial tracks, that ‘Your Starlight’ was then re-recorded last Christmas with Ted Niceley (producer of Fugazi) and Eli Janney (Girls Against Boys) for the album. What could be a early 90’s retro classic, Your Starlight is a hook-filled, power-chorded, fuzzy-edged, beefcake of a single...with just a hint of melancholy and a heavy daub of melody. Second track ‘Kick It’ is pure Future Kings Of Spain...screeching, jagged and utterly unrelenting. A band reaching their zenith, Future Kings have delivered a track that not only shows the new rock revolution, AC/DC wannabes what is what but also references classic American new wave. The hat-trick is completed, though, with a complete surprise move – a cover of Janet Jackson’s ‘Lets Wait A While’ - which, unlike the original, manages to display both tenderness and depth. Future Kings Of Spain are on tour throughout May and June as support to Cosmic Rough Riders: MAY Mon 26th Middlesborough Festival Thurs 29th Perth Twa Tams Fri 30th Mooset Forres Sat 31st Inverness Raigmore JUNE Mon 2nd Aberdeen Lava Wed 4th Hull Adelphi Thurs 5th York Fibbers Fri 6th Tunbridge Wells Forum Sun 8th Northampton Soundhaus Mon 9th Peterborough Park Tues 10th Warwick University Wed 11th Liverpool Barfly Thurs 12th London Metro Fri 13th Stoke Void Mon 16th Norwich Arts Centre Tues 17th Cambridge Boat Race Wed 18th Cardiff Barfly Questions & answers: FIN E: fkos@ny.com