Sam McCarthy (born 1988) is a New Zealand pop vocalist and member (with Jordan Arts of the duo Kids of 88.
McCarthy was brought up in Auckland in the suburb of Onehunga. He was educated at St Peter's College. With Jordan Art, David Wong and he was a member of Incursa, a St Peter's College band which won the Smokefreerockquest in 2004[1].
DOMINION POST, 12 AUG 2010 Edition 2, Page 3. The kids are alright By: FITZSIMONS Tom
A song that started off as "kind of a joke" propelled Auckland synth pop duo Kids of 88 into a surreal global adventure. But they nearly gave the music business away, band member Jordan Arts tells Tom Fitzsimons.
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HOW DO you go from being layabout Auckland students to being feted by major record labels on a month-long US tour?
Simple. Write a song like My House, the catchy, raunchy dance tune penned by Kids of 88, a young Auckland duo whose debut album, Sugarpills, comes out next week.
These days, the song's accompanied by an equally steamy video, featuring girls gyrating in slow motion as they're showered in various shades of paint.
But when it was written, a couple of years ago, it was much more basic than that.
"We were dicking around one morning," says Jordan Arts, one half of the duo that also includes schoolmate