With a March release date now cemented for the release of "Smash Hits" b/w "So Close to beautiful" on 7" vinyl on Straight to Video Records, the Kids busy themselves trying to remove the last remnants of rubbish from their set. This will take them a few months. Two gigs in two months see a fairly sedate start to the year, but behind the scenes the band are ferreting away, organising shows, a tour! if you will, to promote their debut single.
The band have the privilege to headline the first ever Fence Records Club at the Caves in Edinburgh to launch their debut single. Furthermore, they've only gone and had King Creosote and Gordon from Ballboy on the same bill! The show is a huge success with the balcony upstairs having to be opened to accommodate all the gig-goers. The Kids, well-aware that they were by no mains the sole-draw for this concert, play to a packed to capacity venue of almost 300 hundred folk and leave happier than ever to be making music together.
Following the critical success of the single in various music and newspaper publications, the band enjoy radio exposure on Steve Lamacq's BBC Radio 1 show, Vic Galloway’s BBC Scotland and Radio 1 shows and being made "Single of the week" on Jim Gellatly's XFM show. The band hit the road taking in Glasgow, London (where they play to a very receptive crowd at the GORGEOUS Luminaire venue), Aberdeen (to play the last ever Underflow club night, upon special request along with Popup), Dundee, St Andrews, Dunfermline (where they open for Camera Obscura and Emma Pollock at Carnegie Hall for Tigerfest 2007, a highlight for all of the band), Anstruther (for their second Homegame, where they play a terrible set) and ending up in Inverness at the goNorth festival (where an inebriate of a pensioner forces his way to the front through the crowd to request some covers).
The band is a bit tired, but they have a whole new set of songs crying out to be recorded.
One acoustic show and three soul-destroyingly bad gigs (despite one cracking review: "melodies the magic numbers would give their busy beards for...picking their best song is like try to pick your favourite child: impossible", and one suggesting that they had been unfathomably left outside of the publics consciousness whilst KT and King Creosote had seeped into it. Eh?) sees the band limp into Chem 19 studios to work with Andy Miller in September. Any moments of “what are we doing here, guys, is it still working?" are blown to pieces by Andy's attitude to recording. During the first few run throughs of the songs, the band are informed of the quality of the performance... Mr. Miller directs the band to approach the process with the energy they would a live performance despite it being just the five of them in the studio. The band starts to move, make noise and actually perform leading to the best representation of the bands work to date.
The band leave the studio rightly declaring Andy Miller a genius and set off to think about the next session with a renewed sense of enthusiasm having recorded "Couldn't Dance", "Teenage Fanclub Song", "I don't have the heart for this", "Second Time Around" and "Missing Me".
Kid Canaveral play at the first "Straight to Video" nights at the Wee Red Bar in Edinburgh with talented friends DanDanDan and Callel. It snows. A lot. People brave the snow. It's a fun gig. The band have the honour of ending the year by being asked to play the Is This Music? magazine's Christmas party at the 13th Note Cafe. Festive outfits are worn by all. "All I want for Christmas is you" is played. Rose draws attention in a "Santa" dress. Kate is an elf. David breaks an antler and Dan is a Christmas cowboy.