Fo Daniels "King of Swords" Album Release Tour w/ The Queen's Giant & Kicking Bird

Fo Daniels "King of Swords" Album Release Tour w/ The Queen's Giant & Kicking Bird Sat Mar 1, 2025 9:00 PM - 12:30 AM Bourgie Nights, 28401 Description 9pm Doors. 10pm Show. $15 ADV $18 DOS. 21+ Fo Daniels combines the raw intensity of a rock and roll band with a singer-songwriter's attention to lyrical and emotional detail. With a general disregard for trends and genre restriction, Daniels and his band blaze their own trail, quickly growing their diverse catalog of records- which contains a wide variety of influences but is united by the common themes of originality, heart, and rebel spirit. Their tenacious touring schedule has left audiences deeply inspired up and down the East Coast, spreading the word about a sound which can be best described as "pretty and gritty". The Queen's Giant fuses elements of Rock, Blues, Country, and Electronica, bringing a high energy sound with a refinement and flavor that oozes originality. Accompanied with an inventive rhythm section and diverse keyboard synthesizers, Brendon Jacobsen drives this project via attractive songwriting and a raw, penetrating guitar. Forming in 2021 in Wilmington, NC, The Queen's Giant aims to establish a brand that offers a professional, highly entertaining live act while meticulously crafting their debut album. Each musician in this band comes from a completely different background, and it is their understanding of each other's unique perspective that drives the creative direction. The variety of influences each artist applies to the project produces an amusing, dynamic sound complemented by a dazzling lead guitar, a sturdy, guttural bass, and a sentimental yet striking match of keys propelled by bolting percussion. Kicking Bird states that clearly but without irony or apology on their debut album Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. The twist however is that while stolen chords or melodies are an inevitability in all music, it's impossible to not filter the work of those who came first through our own cracked and unique lenses. This is where the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack shines. Kicking Bird lives inside the connective tissue that started with the first instruments, voices and drums. Subtly familiar but still completely unique, each song on Original Motion Picture Soundtrack attempts to find a space inside the strings and vibrations to reach that wholly shared experience inside all of us, the need to dance. Their live performances slam back and forth between explosive and intimate, highlighted by the polarity shifts of "Just To Be Here With You" and "All The Smallest Places Turn Into A Dream". The interplay between three distinct vocalists helps define the sound of Kicking Bird while guitars, keys and drums blast through 1-4-5 chord changes that channel the carefree recklessness of early New York punk and 60s Midwest girl groups. Songs like "Lauren" vibrate with urgency and tension, angular guitar riffs calling back to the early 2000s and bands born out of wild eyed bathroom meetings and poorly lit studio apartments. Five people brought shared experiences into a shed beside a river in southeast North Carolina. What came from that time together is humble, simple, and undeniably unified. Fictions and truths mixed together into a final story, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.