LIVID KITTENS

Published: Thursday, May 16, 2002

Fort Lauderdale has always been one of those towns where talented bands grow too big for their britches and then bolt for the good life elsewhere. But the Livid Kittens have stuck around for nearly ten years to help make a good life right here. And it's a colorful one too: Paige Harvey is certainly the most eye-catching frontwoman around. Maybe she doesn't have the range of operatic divas, but she's in touch with her inner Gary Numan. The Livid Kittens' latest, More Flames to Fall in Love With, finds the band's sound migrating from speedskating goth-core to shimmering, metallic tunes washed in a radioactive acid bath. Harvey's voice is soft and menacing at the same time (check out the delicate "House on Fire" and gripping, streamlined takes on the Beatles' "She Said She Said" and the Prom Sluts' "Spastic.") And Harvey's sexy shenanigans are theatrical enough to provide the band its own in-the-flesh skin flick -- which just makes these Kittens harder to tame.

http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2002-05-16/bestof/bestart13.html



- New Times

Published: Thursday, June 10, 2004

The Livid Kittens have been around for a minute, long enough to watch fellow Fort Lauderdale spawn the Spooky Kids grow up into Marilyn Manson, to go through seven drummers, and to help lead vocalist/man-magnet Paige Alison Harvey win best female rock vocalist from New Times Broward-Palm Beach in 2002. More than ten years after bassist David Heikkinen formed the band with former vocalist Scyndie Dietz, Livid Kittens have watched their punky Goth styles à la the Cramps go out of style and come back in again, making the time ripe for ... Blondie covers? Yes, Liquordale's finest will sing "One Way or Another" for One Way or Another, Leah Modigliani's celebrity-obsessed art show homage to Deborah Harry's backing band. Life takes some strange turns, but the Livid Kittens should be all right. -- Mosi Reeves

Livid Kittens perform during One Way Or Another: A Show About Blondie at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, June 12, at Rocket Projects, 3440 N Miami Ave.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2004-06-10/localheroes.html



- Miami New Times

By Greg Baker
Published: March 1, 2007

With a much cooler moniker than the Pussycat Dolls or even defunct local noise bastards Harry Pussy, the Livid Kittens have been enchanting crowds with rock-hard performances during their 14-year career. The group's powerfully punky and often complex sound works on tape or disc, but it's their live shows that have made bassist David Heikkinen and singer Paige Alison Harvey local legends. Attending a Kittens show should be a mandatory assignment in Punk 101. Their army-boot-in-the-face sound enhanced by Harvey's pouty attitude is captivating, and she's a hard-core mix of Deborah Harry and Eartha Kitt, with bravado and moves to match. Their latest release, The Diamond-Cutter Sessions, from this past November, is what the kids used to call an "EP," but it seems silly to describe a recording that lasts less than 18 minutes "extended." The band claws its way through four tough originals before covering "Ace of Spades" from Motörhead's catalog without noticeable irony. They also manage to use purposely flamboyant lyrics such as "Our laughs, our talks, your big lips, your cock/That's what I want" and "Fuck you and the surfboard you rode in on." The sleeve features two big red cocks refracted over a diamond, and on the actual disc, there's a geisha holding a really huge cock. Get it? With this band, there's no innuendo.

LINK: http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2007-03-01/music/kitten-caboodle/
- New Times

By Abel Folgar
Published: December 21, 2006

Local stalwarts the Livid Kittens have been making some kind of rock-oriented racket for a long time now. Combining elements of hard rock, punk, goth, glam, and surf — and filtering it through the rabid vocals of lead kitten Paige Harvey — the unit's sitting on its latest slab (and fifth effort), The Diamond-Cutter Sessions. What you have here are four Kittens originals: the bawdy one-two punch of "She Calls Me Daddy" and "Cock" tearing it up as openers, followed by the truckin' of "Showgirl Hips" and "Undertow" before closing with a fucking brilliant rendition of Motörhead's "Ace of Spades" (where yours truly believes ole Lemmy's given a run for his money). In any case, this disc is a good way to get your holiday jollies. Though an even better way is to catch the Kittens at Saturday's "Rock 'n' Roll Christmas Party."

LINK: http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2006-12-21/music/kristmas-kittens/
- New Times

"...the Livid Kittens mark the release of a five-song EP, The Diamond-Cutter Sessions, on Dec. 23 at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale. Sessions consists of four cutthroat Kitten originals and an awe-inspiring cover of Motorhead's Ace of Spades in which singer Paige Alison Harvey challenges Lemmy Kilminster as that dirty-metal classic's voice of record."

-Sean Piccoli, 12/8/2006

http://www.southflorida.com/music/sfl-shsp8dec08,0,5316238.column?coll=sfe-music-headlines
- Sun-Sentinel