Kid Carpet

Dance choreography aside the set is super-tight with tracks such as Fear of Assault part of an impressive wall of sound.

All you'd have to do would be to point at the grown man onstage rocking out on a miniature, battery-powered children's toy guitar, clear your throat and solemnly pronounce, That man knows one joke and he's taking it on tour.

The Kid in a peer group all his own is unlike anything you've seen before using samples you have heard before which include Jump (Van Halen) Money Money Money (Abba) and an acapella spoof of ABC's Poison Arrow.

Carling Islington Academy, London, UK

It's 2pm on a Tuesday afternoon and I'm using my lunch break to go and watch Kid Carpet's latest touring show. For kids. I feel a little out of place without one as the show is aimed at very young children so they sit amongst parents dotted about in the crowd. They are a lively bunch but the majority sit inte

The last time we saw him do a children's show was at a festival last year so we know we're in for a treat.

As if the prospect of karaoke, kitsch ten-pin bowling, and delicious rum cocktails wasn't enough to incite the senses last Thursday Bloomsbury bowling alley was host to the aural delights of Kid Carpet.