Artist · chart history
Kenickie
Band Sunderland United Kingdom Active 1994–1998
Kenickie formed in 1994 in Sunderland, United Kingdom and was active until 1998. Kenickie has 2 chart appearances on 1 radio countdown from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1996. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Come Out 2 Nite”, which appears on 1 list and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Kenickie most often is John Peel (BBC Radio 1), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1996.
Kenickie were a four-piece from Sunderland with sharp tongues and loud guitars, and from the moment they got going in 1994 they sounded like a gang you would want to join. Lauren Laverne sang, played guitar and wrote the words, Marie Du Santiago played lead guitar and took the odd lead vocal, Emmy-Kate Montrose played bass, and Laverne's brother Johnny X sat behind the drums.
John Peel took to them early, and after a pair of EPs in 1995 and 1996 they got to make a proper album. At the Club, in 1997, is pop punk with a Sunderland accent: "Punka" snarls and bounces at the same time, while "Come Out 2 Nite" sounds like a whole night out squeezed into one burst of fizz.
A second album, Get In, followed before they called it a day in 1998, with the spark still intact.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Kenickie on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Come Out 2 Nite | 1 | #1 | 1 | 1996 | |
| 2 | Punka | 1 | #4 | – | 1996 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1 | Come Out 2 Nite | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1996 |
| 1996 | 4 | Punka | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1996 |
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