Toby Woods

TOUR KICKS OFF IN 2 WEEKS! TOUR REHEARSALS AT UNIT ONE TODAY

17 Sep 2023 — Leave a comment

Our tour with Riot Act kicks off in just two weeks time. Riot Act will be heading over to England for a short run of dates ahead of their festival appearance at British Steel in France. They will be playing the entirety of Riot’s Fire Down Under album. You can still grab tickets for the tour from here.

We will be ensuring we are in the best playing shape possible and working hard at Unit One Studios today on our tour set. We took a break from rehearsals last week to take the above photographs with Rachel W Photography. These were taken to help further promote the tour dates.

REFORGED IN EXTINCTION LIVE ALBUM MIXED – CD AND VIDEO TO BE RELEASED SOON

10 Sep 2023 — Leave a comment

This week we have finally finished mixing the Reforged in Extinction live album with Talon Payne at Gallow Wood Media. The CD release will be ready soon, along with a Patreon exclusive video of the event. The album was recorded at the band’s five-year anniversary celebration of the current lineup of Rage Sadler, Liam Etheridge, Toby Woods, and Isaac Healy coming together in May 2018. The album contains a selection of songs from both Reforge The Steel and After Extinction, as well as one track from the Extinction After EP. This was recorded at Three Wise Monkeys, Colchester, earlier this year. You can pre-order the new live album here.

BACK TO REHEARSAL TODAY – FIRE DOWN UNDER TOUR STARTS THIS MONTH!

3 Sep 2023 — Leave a comment

After yesterday’s Mearfest appearance at The Queens Hall, Nuneaton, we are back to rehearsal today. The focus today will be preparation for the forthcoming tour with Riot Act. Riot Act will be playing the entirety of the legendary Riot album Fire Down Under on this tour, and we’re really looking forward to hitting the road with them later this month. We are aiming to be in top playing condition for these shows!

Mearfest went well for us also, many thanks to Stevo for jumping on and filling in for Isaac yesterday. We think we got away with it! This was Stevo’s first appearance with the band for 5 years, and he had never played any of these songs live with us before, so we are thankful for his efforts to learn the music and help us out with this one.

FINAL MEARFEST REHEARSALS TODAY AT UNIT ONE

28 Aug 2023 — Leave a comment
Last weeks sessions at Unit One

We will be having a bumper rehearsal session today at Unit One Studios ahead of Mearfest next week. Isaac Healy is now unable to do the show because of work commitments, so former bassist Stephen Ellis will be stepping in for the show and has been learning the band’s new set this week. Mearfest is the first Kaine gig since our return from the Chris Holmes Mean Man Tour in June.

The new Extinction England shirts will also be available to purchase at Mearfest. These will be £20 on the day, or if ordered in advance from Bandcamp just £15 from here.

TOUR AND MEARFEST PREP CONTINUES TODAY AT UNIT ONE

6 Aug 2023 — Leave a comment

We are back in Unit One today to prepare for the forthcoming shows at Mearfest and our tour coming up with Riot Act. We have been working hard t be in top playing shape for these shows and the hard work continues today.

You can catch us at:

*Fire Down Under Tour with Riot Act

REHEARSALS TODAY – PREP FOR MEARFEST FLAME & FIRE DOWN UNDER TOUR

9 Jul 2023 — Leave a comment
Last weeks rehearsal sessions.

Today we are having our second rehearsal following our successful tour with Chris Holmes. Last week (as seen above) we focused on rehearsing the songs we didn’t do on the tour and writing new material for a future release.

Today we head back into Unit One again for more rehearsals, we’ll be working on our set for Mearfest Flame in Nuneaton in September, and then our second tour of 2023 with Riot Act, who will be playing the entire Riot classic album Fire Down Under in full during the tour.

Tickets fore the Fire Down Under Tour are already selling well, with London already 20% sold months in advance of the show. If you wish to attend these shows, we advise you to book well in advance from here. Our last show at Three Wise Monkeys for example sold out in advance, and there were people who could not get into the venue on the night.

CHRIS HOLMES – MEAN MAN TOUR A SUCCESS – MERCH SOLD OUT AND TOUR IN PROFIT!

26 Jun 2023 — Leave a comment

We are now home from our tour supporting the legendary Chris Holmes and his Mean Man band. We had a fantastic time, it was great to play both South and North Wales, Scotland, the Northeast of England, West Anglia, London, and the Northwest of England on the run. We appreciate everyone who came out and supported the shows, as well as those of you who took the time to watch us play.


We are happy to report that due to exceptionally tight budgeting on our end, combined with merchandise sales and performance fees, we have made a profit on this tour, and the first profit we have ever made from touring in Kaine! We sold out of all our tour t-shirts, as well as Reforge The Steel t-shirts, and a check of the Second Coming designs, leaving our stocks depleted. Out of the CDs we took on tour, we only had one copy of our album After Extinction left after the run. We have also had requests for orders come through since yesterday from people who had seen us live wanting to purchase more items.


Finally, we thank SD Entertainment for arranging us as the support for this tour, Chris and Sarah Holmes for their support and guidance, and of course the other members of the Mean Man band, Florian, Chuck, and Steve all of whom were brilliant players and people to be around. Also we would like to thank Alex Smith (our everything guy) and Charles Franklin (our tech) for all their hard work during this tour, which made our lives so much easier. We couldn’t operate without these guys.

MEAN MAN Chris Holmes:

Chris Holmes Official – Guitars and Vocals

Florian Lagoutte – Guitars and backing Vocals

Chuck Lambert – Bass and Vocals – follow Kung Fu Hotline

Steve Jackson – Drums – follow Heartbreak Remedy


Wales, Scotland, and the rest of England, we very much hope to see you all again soon! This has been one of the best experiences Kaine has ever had.

Photo credit: Jason Samuels Photography

FINAL TOUR REHEARSALS TODAY + BAD NEWS ON TOUR SHIRTS

11 Jun 2023 — Leave a comment

Today we have our final rehearsal before we tour with Chris Holmes next week. We will again be focusing on the tour set and being at our absolute best for the shows. The tour begins on Friday, at The Patriot, Crumlin in South Wales on Friday. You can still buy tickets for the tour here.

We’ve had some bad luck in the run-up to the tour. The tour shirts we had printed have been delivered to an unknown location and we are desperately trying to recover them, in order to send the pre-orders out before the tour begins on Friday and ensure we had shirts to sell on the road to help us cover the costs of touring.

We’ll know if they can be recovered at all tomorrow, if not there will be a rush on to get them reprinted and out before Thursday. This has been an absolute nightmare to deal with.

FURTHER TOUR PREPARATIONS AT UNIT ONE, COLCHESTER TODAY

28 May 2023 — Leave a comment

We are back at Unit One, Colchester today to continue our preparation for our tour supporting Chris Holmes next months across Wales, Scotland and England. We are working on the set for the shows, and ensuring we are as tight as possible for the tour.

Our tour shirts are presently being printed and will be delivered ASAP to those who have pre-ordered! We are sorry about the delay in getting these printed.

MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED OUR COLCHESTER SHOW!

22 May 2023 — Leave a comment

I thought I would take a moment to thank everyone who came out and supported our event at Three Wise Monkeys, Colchester on Friday.

We were celebrating the 5th anniversary of this line-up of Kaine coming together and the event was a huge success thanks to your support. We sold out the venue while competing with Blur at Colchester Arts Centre, and Bloodstock’s Metal to the Masses happening just a few doors down.  This is a big achievement for us, and we hope to be back at some point after our tour supporting Chris Holmes (of W.A.S.P fame), and after I have had my shoulder surgery later this year.

Over the years we have been consistently told the scene is dead, nobody comes out and supports live Heavy Metal music unless it’s Metallica or Iron Maiden anymore, and there is no point in running gigs in places such as Colchester. As ever, Friday has again proven those people wrong. We will continue to prove them wrong and work hard to promote our events, Heavy Metal is alive and well, and the scene is thriving in the UK underground.

We recorded the set for a forthcoming live album, as well as having the footage recorded for YouTube and other streaming services to be uploaded at a later date.

The live-album track listing is:

  1. Bright
  2. Reforge The Steel
  3. A Slave to the Grind
  4. Black
  5. Second Coming (The Cycle)
  6. Loudwire
  7. After Extinction
  8. The Dragon Reborn (Rebirth)
  9. Protesting for Profit
  10. I am God, The Master of Mankind
  11. Green to Grey
  12. All Hail the Evil One

Unlike the previous live albums, which were crudely mixed and produced by myself, this release will be getting produced by Talon Payne of Gallow Wood Media, rather than a DIY release, and therefore will have top-quality production. The tracks were a mixture from both albums (Reforge The Steel/After Extinction) as well as the first-ever performance of All Hail the Evil One from the Extinction After EP.