Kitmusic - biography

Biography

Kit’s music is lyric-driven, guitar-based, acoustic, varied, individual, musing on life and love. It’s folk, with rock roots and occasionally a hint of punk.

Her songs have evoked comparison to Hazel O'Connor, Vivienne McAuliffe, Kirsty MacColl, The Slits and Melissa Etheridge.

Performance and delivery comparisons include Kirsty McColl, Grace Slick, Billy Bragg, Michelle Shocked, June Tabor, Alison Moyet, Alanis Morissette, Nico, Chrissie Hynde, Dolores Riordan/The Cranberries, Skunk Anansie, The Pixies, Heartthrob, Dory Previn, Death in June, "Joy Division meets Ani DiFranco" and even Bauhaus.

Both Kit’s début album, The End of the Rainbow (2006) and her second album, The View from Here (2010) were produced by Paul Sampson.

Her third album, Echoes of the Past, will be released in spring 2012.

Comments about The View from Here

"songs with [a] strong sense of drama and folk and rock roots alike, delivered with a flexible voice that attacks full on… Despite lyrics that hint at feelings of insecurity and a questioning of self-worth, it's a confident album that grows stronger with each play, Dialogue, the swirling title track and the radio friendly Walking In The Park… especially standing out… While it's raw and, at times, a little rough, she could well prove a diamond that sparkles without the polish" (Mike Davies, NetRhythms.co.uk)

"Her lyrics are direct and expressive, with a natural sense of the dramatic that’s all the more persuasive for its understatement and its occasional sense of perplexed insecurity that kinda balances the more overt confidence of her expression… The songs grow rather than pall on successive plays, and the best of them hint at a healthy future" (David Kidman, Folk and Roots).

‘The View From Here and Dialogue do it for me. The stand-out tracks on the album’ (Stuart Loosemore, Radio Tircoed)

"You Decide is a great feel-good song" (Aaron Phillips, The Amazing Rock Show, Amazing Radio)

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