BBQ and King Khan had collaborated as members of the Montreal-based Spaceshits from 1995 until 1999. During a mid-1999 European tour, Blacksnake (as King Khan was then known) opted to remain in Germany. The Spaceshits, choosing not to continue without Blacksnake, disbanded. Later in 1999, Mark Sultan started another Montreal-based band, Les Sexareenos, before venturing off on his own in 2002 as a one-man band under the pseudonym BBQ. It was as BBQ that Mark Sultan re-established contact with Blacksnake, playing alongside Blacksnake's new band,
King Khan & the Shrines. The two began writing songs together at Blacksnake's apartment in Germany, playing them live at sporadic shows around Germany and Spain. In 2004, the band recorded their first album as the King Khan & BBQ Show, releasing
The King Khan & BBQ Show LP in America on
Goner Records, and on
Hazelwood Records in Europe. The album was recorded by DM Bob in Hamburg, Germany. In support of the album, the band began a world tour, with stops in Europe, the US, and South America. In 2006, the band released their second LP, ''What's for Dinner?
, on In the Red Records. In 2008, Impose Magazine crowned King Khan the best performer of 2008. On July 31, 2009, Pitchfork Media reported that King Khan & BBQ will be releasing Invisible Girl'' in November. They embarked on a forty-day US/Canada tour to coincide with the release. On November 12, while on tour in the United States, Khan, Sultan, Leo Chips and tour manager Kristin Klein were arrested in
Kentucky on illegal drug possession charges. Klein was also booked for driving with an invalid license. She entered a guilty plea and will appear in court on April 2, 2010. The band missed three shows due to the holdup. The same year, the band brought their typically confrontational and wild show to China for a tour with local promoters
Split Works. In 2010, the duo was hand picked by
Lou Reed and
Laurie Anderson to play two shows at the Vivid Live festival they were curating. The shows were played at the Sydney Opera House. The festival described the band's art: "This dynamic duo has relentlessly pursued an uncompromising vision of the subversive power of music that pays no heed to commercial imperatives. Standing outside the industry, two fingers raised in salute, they have nevertheless managed to forge an international career completely on their own, idiosyncratic terms." The band split after the Sydney show. On June 2, 2011, Mark Sultan announced that he and King Khan had recorded with one another once again. On July 13, 2012, The King Khan & BBQ Show reunited for the first time since the Sydney show, for a sold-out performance at Lee's Palace in Toronto. They have continued to perform and tour, into 2019. The single "Love You So" from 2005 is one of the most used songs on the social media app TikTok, often seen as a placeholder for music even when the song is not playing. In the first half of 2022, "Love You So" was the most heard song on TikTok, with approximately 38 billion views on videos containing the song. ==Discography==