Little Things That Kill

“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

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 and then performed on Lowlands, Noorderslag, Parkpop, the stage of Paradiso and many other venues and festivals and they had a number 0 top-of-the chart placement in the Kink Outlaw 41.

But the band decided they wanted to go a different road: more exciting, more danceable, more ‘themselves’ and with better songs. The name was changed to Little Things That Kill and with producer René de Vries they recorded the album ‘Smokescreens’. Catchy songs where Editors, Interpol, Kings of Leon, The Killers and Bloc Party meet, with a smattering of Elbow thrown in.

3FM proclaimed them Serious Talent at the end of 2009. March 2010 saw the release of the album.

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