Espionage
"A military coup against music is on the cards..." - (read more, scan courtesy of Fragile Records)
"The best new band in the UK at the moment... Brilliant..." (John Robb)
"This demo defies any attempts to shoe-horn it into any particular genre and instead insists on baffling me every time I listen to it. What can be said about it is its brashness and uncompromising stance to sound completely unlike anything else around." - (read more...)
( Natasha Perry, Gigs Unlimited)
"Scissor kicks galore, lyrics spat like machine-gun fire and more riffs than you can shake a stick at..." (read more)
"General Khaki – Military uniforms, regimental discipline and earth-shattering tunes. The rescue mission has started." - (read more)
(Pete Whiley, Unsigned London Live)
"General Khaki are a force to be reckoned with, offering the most original and compelling take on garage rock since the White Stripes... what rock and roll should be – irreverent, sexy, brooding and commanding...- (read more...)
(Felix On-line)
"Reminiscent of The Clash at their most adventurous..." - (read more...)
(BBC Leicester Online)
"...They play so unique and amazing music that it is possible to talk about a birth of new style: incendiary punk-ska (no "third wave"!!!) with jazz-circus arrangements on hardcore-speeds - and all this is given in the way as if it is executed by a gang of fucking demobilized sergeants!..." - (Real Art Magazine, Volvograd, RU)
"At first impression – General Khaki look both sexy and serious. Their female bassist adding the good looks and the unsmiling lead singer and guitarist oozing seriousness..." (read more...)
- (Kate Reuben, The Reuben Review)
"you end up captivated whether you like it or not..."(read more...) - (Manchester Music)
"… Imagine Franz Ferdinand if they spent less time ironing their shirts and more time working on an attitude… Definitely worth keeping an ear out for." (Mysterious reviewer)
"General Khaki are up against a market filled with barely any of the humour, originality and delicious irony that these four songs ram in your face in seven minutes. Introducing themselves with a number of flattering adjectives ending in “acular”, this exhilarating debut EP offers insights into guns, animals, bad guys and swagger- all at breakneck punk speed with more than its fair share of military drum rolls. You can tell a bad guy with a beard or moustache, he rides a camel and he likes to smoke hash, growls standout track "Good Guys Bad Guys." With elements of rock, punk, ska and army march music, each song delivers its confusing but consistently brilliant message in a couple of minutes, with absolutely no hints of the blandness of bands that obviously want to be them. It’s questionable whether this insane recipe will spread out over several albums, but if this is just a blueprint of what’s to come, they could easily eat the world like their songs promise to. The new Libertines or Sex Pistols? God no: General Khaki are in a regiment of their own." - (God Is In The TV)
"Gorgeous bassist Kat provides brilliant punky-yet-interesting backing, but singer and guitarist Tommy Mack is the undisputed star of the show... as a frontman he's magnificent. All attitude and relentless punk spirit. (read more...) - (Mayer Nissim, Fragile Records)
"A little SCARY in their INTENSENESS i must say...It was ENNERVATING!" (MJ Hibbert)
More eyewitness accounts of the General’s forces in action coming soon...