THIS IS THE KIT
Event on 2012-06-16 20:00:00
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE:
Butterfly Cabinet
SAT 16TH JUN, 2012 8pm
£8.00 – 42 tickets available
All ages
Following their wonderful performance at the café in October last year, it's an absolute pleasure to be bringing This is the Kit back for another evening of banjo infused unpretentious folk beauty.
THIS IS THE KIT (Dreamboat/Sunday Best)
This is the Kit is the musical project of Kate Stables.
In 2006 Rob Da Bank's record label Sunday Best included This Is The Kit's track Two Wooden Spoons in their Folk Off compilation alongside artists including Animal Collective, Tunng and Vashti Bunyan. The band's inclusion in the compilation received high praise from Drowned in Sound who said "its personal touch is largely what makes This Is The Kit the British highlight, not to mention that of the compilation as a whole". Following that Sunday Best went on to release Two Wooden Spoons as a 7" single with the B side Come a Cropper in 2006.
Their most recent album, Wriggle Out The Restless was released by Dreamboat Records in 2010. The album was gestated over a long period and drew on This Is The Kit's many musical friends including Rozi Plain, Jim Barr (bass player from Portishead), Francois and the Atlas Mountains and The Liftmen. The album was produced by long-time collaborator and partner Jesse D Vernon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FY2EO9wjiw
"You thought you didn't like the banjo but you were wrong pal. Kate Stables rips forward with a hypnotic twang pattern and a voice of rare unaffected beauty.Accompanied by a backing-band of minimal psychedelia, This is the Kit will transport you to a warm bath in the middle of a forest." – Neil Smith – The liftmen
"Absolutely georgeous, like an aural bath with the warm winter lapping over you" – Cerys Matthew – BBC6 Music£8.00 – 42 tickets available
All ages
at butterfly cabinet
Heaton Rd
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom





