Kenickie

 ( 1994 Establishments In England ) 

After meeting them in New York, Courtney Love said:

They're a big bunch of sex, that band Kenickie. They're a big, raw-boned bunch of fucking sex — all three of them and the boy. I hope they get good. I hope we're a good example to them, I hope this record's huge and then the big labels will start sniffing around and then those big fucking raw-boned sexy Newcastle (sic) girls will be huge and have Number Ones and there will be an Amazons planet the way I want it.

The band's second album, Get In, appeared in 1998. It was well received in the music press (NME generally praised the album target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> "Make It Hot" - review of Get In by Kenickie, NME 1998 while Melody Maker rated it 8/10), but sold less well. Johnny X, who now referred to himself as Pete X, moved to guitar, with the live band augmented by Graham Christie (later of Data Panik) on drums and Dot Allen on keyboards.

Kenickie disbanded on 15 October 1998 after a London Astoria gig, where Lauren closed the night by saying "We were Kenickie ... a bunch of fuckwits".

Du Santiago and Montrose started short-lived clubnight Shimmy in Gerrard Street, London before they went on to form a new band called Rosita, and released two singles before splitting up in September 2001. Du Santiago retired from music at this point before returning in 2007as Marie Nixonas a member of . They have released two album so far, Tell Tales (2012) and Honey and Tar (2017). Nixon's four songwriting credits on the latter were the first new songs released by any of the three female Kenickie members since Laverne's EP seventeen years earlier. She is also former head of communications for the Northern region of the Arts Council. In Autumn 2012, she took up position as Chief Executive of the University of Sunderland Students' Union.

Montroseas Emma Jacksonformed synth trio The Pictures after Rosita split and later edited journal The High Horse during 2005–2010 while occasionally playing with jam band Snakes And Ladders. She completed a PhD in sociology in 2010 at Goldsmiths University. After some time as a research fellow in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, she returned to Goldsmiths in January 2015 as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology.

Johnny X went on to record under the name J Xaverre. He toured with Peter Brewis of Field Music's new project The Week That Was and later played in Frankie & The Heartstrings.

The band's onetime touring keyboard player Tony O'Neill (known in the band as Elvis Wesley) is now an author, living in the United States.

Laverne is the last remaining member of the band to still use her Kenickie stage name; Nixon and Jackson last referred to themselves as Du Santiago and Montrose in early 2002 for a DJ appearance together at London clubnight Simon Price. Pete Gofton had already ceased calling himself "Johnny X" during the band's lifetime due to an American rapper at the time using the name.

• At the Club (Emidisc 1997)
• Get In (EMI 1998)

• The John Peel Sessions (1999, Strange Fruit Records)

• Catsuit City EP vinyl (Slampt Records 1995)
• Skillex EP (vinyl two tracks, Fierce Panda 1995; CD four tracks, Fierce Panda 1996)
• "Punka" (CD Emidisc 1996)
• "Millionaire Sweeper" (CD Emidisc 1996)
• "In Your Car" (two CDs Emidisc 1997)
• "Nightlife" (two CDs Emidisc 1997)
• "Punka" revised edition (two CDs Emidisc 1997)
• "I Would Fix You" (two CDs EMI 1998)
• "Stay in the Sun" (two CDs EMI 1998)

• "Walrus" demo - Signal vs Noise CD (1994)
• "Hey, Punka" demo - Laugh Hard at the Absurdly Evil (1995)
• "Rebel Assault" - Electric Jet Mission LP, Slampt (1995)
• "Gary 2" - The Camden Crawl CD, Love Train (1995)
• "My Nites Out" - And the Rest Is History CD, Xerox (1996)
• "Come Out 2Nite" - Phoenix - The Album CD, New Millenium Communications (1997)
• "I'm an Agent" - Random - Gary Numan tribute CD (1997)
• "It Started with a Kiss" - Come Again CD, EMI (1997)

• BBC radio1/johnpeel kenickie page
• Kenickie Corner
• Planet Kenickie
• Kenickie Fried Chicken