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Spawned from the filthy loins of the London New Cross scene, Kick Up The Fire are a garage punk three-piece guaranteed to get your toe tapping and your booty shaking. Formed in 2009, their work draws on the punk ethos of acts including <a href="spotify:artist:5E2rtn57BM2WPjwak4kGd5" data-name="At The Drive In">At The Drive In</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3r6Sk3pYxdJk7MekhBGgMR" data-name="Blood Red Shoes">Blood Red Shoes</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3RGLhK1IP9jnYFH4BRFJBS" data-name="The Clash">The Clash</a> and blends it with pulsating rhythms and infectious hooks, in a similar vein to artists such as <a href="spotify:artist:3wyfo3svXNWnszGAEVey11" data-name="Tokyo Police Club">Tokyo Police Club</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6hl5k4gLl1p3sjhHcb57t2" data-name="Circa Waves">Circa Waves</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:35YNL4wwv11ZkmeWWL51y7" data-name="We Are Scientists">We Are Scientists</a>. The result was described by one blogger as being "like <a href="spotify:artist:0XNa1vTidXlvJ2gHSsRi4A" data-name="Franz Ferdinand">Franz Ferdinand</a> on steroids".