Before forming Boy Kill Boy, Chris Peck, Pete Carr and Shaz Mahmood were in a band called Future of Junior and produced a few songs including a track called "Miss Scandinavia". In May 2005, Boy Kill Boy released their debut single "Suzie" for record label
Fierce Panda. In the summer the band opened the
Radio 1 stage on Sunday/Friday of the 2005
Reading and Leeds Festivals. Their second single followed later that year through Fallout Records, a subsidiary of
Island Records. "
Civil Sin" was featured as Zane Lowe's "Hottest Track In The World Today". In 2005, Boy Kill Boy signed to
Vertigo Records. In 2006, the single "
Back Again" reached No. 26 in the
UK Singles Chart, which earned them a slot on
Top of the Pops, and the re-release of "Suzie" reached No. 17. Their debut album
Civilian was released in the UK on 22 May 2006 and entered the
UK Albums Chart at No. 16. The album was released in North America on 25 July 2006, where it reached No. 11 on
Billboard's
Top Heatseekers chart. In May 2005, the band stepped in to replace
Nine Black Alps on the
NME New Music Tour 2005 after the band's frontman
Sam Forrest caught the
mumps. Boy Kill Boy had only been billed to play one support slot on the tour but ended up playing numerous extra slots supporting
Maxïmo Park,
The Cribs and
The Rakes. They returned the following year as headliners for
NME's New Bands Tour 2006, supported by
The Automatic,
¡Forward, Russia!, and
The Long Blondes. Boy Kill Boy's "Suzie", was US iTunes Single of The Week in March 2006, this was followed with a US tour supporting
The Charlatans and
Echo & the Bunnymen. Boy Kill Boy opened the Radio 1 / NME stage at
Reading and Leeds Festival in 2005, and returned in 2006 to play higher up the bill. In October 2006 the band played an extensive UK Headline tour. On 7 November 2006, they supported
Feeder for one of their dates in aid of
War Child at the
Camden Roundhouse. This was also in conjunction with the "
Shoot Me Down" single, released for the charity. In 2006 the band performed a cover of
Nelly Furtado's "Maneater" for BBC Radio 1's
Live Lounge. The Fierce Panda release of "Suzie" appeared on the soundtrack of the street football video game
FIFA Street 2, released in winter 2006 by
Electronic Arts. "
Civil Sin" appeared on the soundtrack to the
FIFA 07 football video game. Also, their single "
Back Again" appears in the
Test Drive Unlimited videogame. Boy Kill Boy recorded their second album in Los Angeles with
Oasis producer
Dave Sardy, and returned with the limited edition single "
No Conversation" on 5 November 2007. The album, entitled
Stars and the Sea, was released on 31 March 2008. However, the album failed to repeat the success of their debut, and rumours of a split began surfacing. On 12 October 2008, Boy Kill Boy confirmed this via an announcement on their MySpace site. Singer Chris Peck subsequently started a new project and, on 11 January 2011, posted a video clip on YouTube for a new song called "Riversong". Peter Carr went on to play keyboards in singer-songwriter
Marina and the Diamonds' backing band. The band briefly reformed for two gigs at Oslo,
Hackney, London, on 19 November 2016 and 25 November 2016. ==Members==