It's St Andrews in Fife, Scotland: Four normal youngsters living in an abnormal world of royalty, the braying upper echelons of "society" and nowhere to drink after half one. It's not quite the A-team. After being introduced to one another at the tail end of the previous year (and murdering some acoustic covers along the way) Kate and David recruited the rhythmic talents of Dan and Rose to complete the line-up. Which was fairly easy as Dan and David had been "in a band" since they lived next door to each other in 2001 and Rose had been at school with David and was the younger sibling of David's friend of (then) 14 years Eve (who would later lend her specific skills to the bands artwork).
The band decamped to Riptide Studios in Dundee to brave the stoned, metal men-folk (who were very friendly) and their big dog, to start work on some songs. The product of these practice sessions was an awful cover of Pixie's "Here Comes Your Man" and three originals. The band graced the stage at Aikman's Bar and Bistro (under a terrible moniker, which remain forever lost in the mid 00s) for the local open stage night and thoroughly battered out three songs. There was a lot to learn.
The band practiced away and finally stuck together 4 songs that were deemed ready to record; "Let it Pass", "Green", "Sweet Service" and "Waves" were recorded at Rose's (not our Rose FYI) Home studio in Glasgow, in one day by blues guitarist "Big George". This would form their eponymous EP, which was burned and stuck in a photocopied sleeve ready for the masses in April 2004. The Kids made their official live debut under the name "Kid Canaveral" at St Andrews Student's Association on Saturday 8th May 2004. It was a great night for them opening for King Creosote and The Fence Collective and American Indie-poppers Joy Zipper. Loads of people bought the EP, which sold all of the 200 copies made, and the Kids were even asked for autographs, something that resulted in awkward glances of disbelief between the bandmates.
Spurred on by this initial success, Kid Canaveral rehearsed the follow up to their first release, which would eventually be entitled "Songs of Interest". The success of the first EP was compounded with "Let it Pass" winning the public vote on Vic Galloway's Demo Derby on his BBC Radio Scotland show that May.

Five songs were recorded for the second release, the three full band efforts at Hastie Retreat Studios in Dundee. The day's session did not go entirely to plan. With limited funds allowing only one day of recording, the three songs did not turn out as well as hoped. "Take a minute", "Crutches" and "Second Time Around" were, rushed, poorly mixed (as David was unexpectedly plonked in front of the desk with and hour to go and told to "Get cracking") and generally underwhelming. The other two tracks that were recorded in various flats around St Andrews were in a similar state with David's inexperience all but ruining another wise good song in "Poker Face".
After a summer of David being on one remote rock outcrop or another, the Kids returned to St Andrews to play the University's Freshers Week. To find out that Biffy Clyro had been turned down in favour of Tiffany. Yes, the one that sang "I think we're alone now". This night also happened to be David's 21st birthday. It was carnage. David managed to limit himself to totally hammered, instead of unconscious. What a gent! Two guitars had strings snapped on them by the inebriated front man, and one even had a bottle of water dropped on it. Some new songs were played and some never were heard again. Tiffany played three songs, one a cover and "I think we're alone now" twice and then buggered off three grand richer. At least the night was topped off with a truly great party at David and Rose's house. Kate, Dan and Rose let MacGregor off with this one, but sternly warn him about future alcohol intakes.
"Songs of Interest" sells well but is generally acknowledged to be a poor example of what the band are capable of. If it was a film, it would be called: Mince, actually.
2004 finishes up having seen the band play their first show outside of St Andrews (Bannerman's in Edinburgh) and opening for KT Tunstall to a crowd of around a thousand folk including Denis Lawson (a.k.a. Wedge from Star Wars, which results in David getting genuinely star struck for the first time in his life) in November.