“Smokescreens is an album with a spot-on festival and summer feeling. The twelve tracks on the album manage to pique your interest from beginning to end, and songs such as ‘Sliding Scale’ and ‘So Beautiful’ stay bouncing through your head for the rest of the summery afternoon. With ‘Smokescreens’, Little Things That Kill have delivered a formidable debut album, a perfect warm up for your far-too-packed festival season.” Blend Magazine , March 2010

Grote Prijs van Nederland
The men of Little Things That Kill stormed the barricades of the Dutch club and festival scene in 2003 as up and coming band, when they were still called Eleven. The band won the Grote Prijs van Nederland, the Dutch version of the Battle of the Bands, followed by 150 shows in two years’ time. Lowlands, Paradiso, Noorderslag, Parkpop and many other venues and festivals, as well as a show for 50.000 people in Kiev, and a number 0 top-of-the chart placement in the Kink Outlaw 41. 

Smokescreens
But the band decided they wanted to go a different road; more exciting, more danceable, more ‘themselves’, and with better songs. So they retreated to a mice-infested car workshop in the forests of the Dutch countryside, and spent two years shaping new songs. The name was changed to Little Things That Kill, and with producer René de Vries (This Beautiful Mess, a balladeer, At The Close Of Every Day) they recorded debut album ‘Smokescreens’ in Zaandam. Catchy songs where  Editors, Interpol, Kings of Leon,The Killers and Bloc Party meet, with a smattering of Elbow thrown in.

Release
The first rough mixes are soon picked up by national radio station 3FM, who proclaimed them Serious Talent at the end of 2009. March 2010 saw the release of the full album. You can listen to and download the full album from the band’s own site, from Spotify, or from iTunes.  

Go!
In the summer of 2010 the band recorded the single “Go!” (Spotify/iTunes) for the World Cup. The band decided to couple this with a fun campaign aimed at raising money for charity. The song and accompanying campaign generated a lot of attention, and saw the tune played on national radio and television, as well as thousands of euros being raised for charity.

Live shows
The band is known for their passionate shows. Don’t expect four introspective guys on the stage, this band is on fire on stage. Not with gimmicks, but with energy and passion that is thrown into the gig with bucketloads. Dutch music magazine FRET described singer Antonie Fountain as ‘a frontman that any band would give it’s right arm for’. 

Band members
Antonie Fountain Vocals / Guitar
Spif Bass
Herman Ypma Drums 
Michel Haverkamp Guitar