Manchester’s Alias Kid have been picked to support Black Grape on the reformed group’s winter UK & Ireland headline tour.
It should be a good one for the band, since they singled out Black Grape as an influence during our Presents interview last year.
“We have so many influences it’s impossible to tie down,” they told us. “Sean’s into the Sex Pistols and that, I’m into Lennon but loads of other stuff. Nick and James are pretty much into the same as me in the main, Col is well into his punk. But there is loads of cross over for us all.”
“We get tagged with the ‘Oasis thing’ because we’re signed with McGee and from Manchester; I don’t think me or Sean would have picked up a guitar if it wasn’t for them, but truth is we aren’t the ones saying that, we say we’re Alias Kid.”