Graeme Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 It's Wales isn't it?He's being funny....errr...isn't he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted May 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 This gig, which is on Sunday, has been previewed by The Kiosque.King Creosote, The Pictish Trail, Player Piano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted May 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2009 KC did a session on The Vic Galloway Show last night, playing Nothing Rings True, Curtain Craft and Pale Shelter / No One Had It BetterBBC - Scotland - The Vic Galloway Show on Radio ScotlandHe'll also be on Marc Riley's BBC 6Music show tonight.BBC - Shows - Marc Riley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted May 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 Nice little interview, with a hint of what to maybe expect on Sunday night...INTERVIEW: KIng Creosote - Yorkshire Evening Post Published Date:21 May 2009By Duncan SeamanThe Scottish folk singer-songwriter talks about the vagaries of the music industry as he prepares to play at the Stag and Dagger festival in LeedsIT WAS a relationship that promised much.King Creosote, one of Scotland's finest folk musicians and singer-songwriters, and Warners, one of the largest record companies in the world.Press coverage was good, album sales initially, at least were promising and gigs well attended.So what, then, went wrong? It's a question that puzzles the King otherwise known as Kenny Anderson even now, 18 months after his parting of the ways with his old label.In hindsight, he says, the writing was on the wall when control of 679, the Warners imprint that initially signed him, was handed over to Atlantic, the more hard-headed pop label that's home to Little Boots, Flo Rida and Alesha Dixon.Still, it bemuses the 42-year-old that Bombshell, the second album he made for the major label, was ditched shortly after its lead single, Home in a Sentence, failed to dent the top 40."They spent a lot of money on it to make it Radio 1 and Radio 2-friendly but (the BBC] didn't take to it. It didn't appeal to the indie stations that had previously backed me either. It kind of fell between the cracks," says Anderson with evident frustration. "I found that argument ridiculous. It's just a song. I did not understand that at all, that it was a failure, that it was binned."As he retreated back to the Fence Collective, his old friends and musical kindred spirits in Fife, it made him realise how alien the world of major labels and their "failure to take in failures" was. After all, he'd managed to make more than two-dozen mail-order CD-Rs before the money men came calling."It made me think in Fence terms how irrelevant that is. You can circumvent your lack of radio plays. (Independent radio stations] are the ones that started to approach us. They were asking us why we didn't send them stuff."If the music's strong enough it may take a lot longer but it will find its own audience. I don't think it's right that you could tart it up in a way to find an audience. You can't buy an audience, you've got to let music find its own audience. The Fence fanbase are right on it that's the ones that I have to appeal to."Now back in Crail, the scenic fishing village on the East Neuk of Scotland that he's long called home, he's concentrating once again on the things that matter.The Fence label and website are thriving, the Homegame festival which the Collective stages every year in Anstruther has just had a record attendance of 900 people and there's talk of resurrecting their subscription-based Fencezine.Anderson has also been back in the recording studio. Following the low-key release of Love + Hate = Hate with his former partner, Jennifer Gordon (aka HMS Ginafore), he's just released a new album on Domino, the indie label who'd distributed his early noughties albums Kenny and Beth's Musakal Boat Rides and Rocket DIY.Appropriately it's called Flicking The Vs."Once I left 679 and Warners a year ago this past January I knew I had a window to get ahead, to make and write and record something for myself, really," he explains. "I had an idea that it would probably end up on Fence because it was a lot more experimental."It's always disappointing to be binned from a record label but at the same time I realised I was free; there had been a lot of pressure on Bombshell to deliver. With Flicking the Vs I wanted to put together some of different themes that ran through the previous albums Kenny and Beth's Musakal Boat Rides, Rocket DIY, KC Rules OK and Bombshell, as well as Love + Hate and They Flock Like Vulcans (another of his CDR releases]. Something that embraced all that and pointed forwards as well."There are little musical references I used The Earlies (with whom he'd recorded KC Rules OK in 2005] and John Hopkins, who produced Bombshell. I recorded it in four different studios. The drummer from (his first band] the Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra is on there too. (The track] Rims was a reference back to that."It was just an idea, I wondered if I could do it, if there was any way that I could stand all that together and make something that belongs in 2009. It was quite easy when I started. There was nobody looking over my shoulder. I was paying for it myself anyway. I wanted it finished before anybody heard it. Domino came to hear it when I was getting it mastered and they loved it."Happier now in his natural realm, Anderson is back out on the road to promote Flicking the Vs. On Friday, May 22 he plays at the Stag and Dagger Festival in Leeds."I've just had a couple of weeks of the worst aspect of touring budgeting, finding Travel Lodge rooms for less than 70 a night. The hardest bits are over now, it's time to go," he says. "I've got a week to get my pants cleaned and we've a couple of rehearsals in the next few days."Of the set, he says: "I've got my accordion back on, I'm trying to make the band quieter on stage. There will be songs off Flicking the Vs but they'll be different to the record. We are looking at older songs that pre-date KC Rules OK as well. It'll be a selection of songs that I think fans might want to hear." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 KC did a session on The Vic Galloway Show last night, playing Nothing Rings True, Curtain Craft and Pale Shelter / No One Had It BetterBBC - Scotland - The Vic Galloway Show on Radio ScotlandThere's video footage of that there session at the link below >>BBC - Scotland - Vic Galloway Show - Sessions - King Creosote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 this is a must see event due to the strenth in depth of ALL the artists playing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moar1 Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 Tickets on the door for this one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 Tickets on the door for this one?yes, pls remember doors 7.30pm come sharp & don't miss player pianowho was excellent at 1UP & his ep is the business Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted May 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 Tickets on the door for this one?Yes. But you'll prob be hit with a door 'booking fee' from the LT as well.Although they still cost the same as advance tickets. Which is ok, eh?Player Piano on around 8pm. Don't miss him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moar1 Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 It's King Creosote. It's cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 Probably a bit late here, but anyone know of an approximate finish time. Need to ensure I'll make the bus ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 i heard this afternoon KC to finish 11pmbut you know how these things go maybe a weeee bit later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted May 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 Really happy with the turnout (although I reckon KC still deserves more....)Thanks to everyone who came down. Kenny and all the guys were delighted.cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tam o' Shantie Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 i must have been the youngest person there. dude was fairly harmless and entertaining, but i felt a bit like i was watching an in-joke that i wasn't invited to...every time the guy said ANYTHING the entire venue erupted in ass-kissing guffaws...wish i'd seen more of pictish trail as well as the last couple of songs i heard were a'right. fave tunes from KC were the 'full band' ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 i heard this afternoon KC to finish 11pmbut you know how these things go maybe a weeee bit laterI just wanted to know just for getting the bus home, but I managed cajole my friend into a night of sobriety and driving.i must have been the youngest person there. dude was fairly harmless and entertaining, but i felt a bit like i was watching an in-joke that i wasn't invited to...every time the guy said ANYTHING the entire venue erupted in ass-kissing guffaws...wish i'd seen more of pictish trail as well as the last couple of songs i heard were a'right. fave tunes from KC were the 'full band' ones.I think I'm younger than you, but I'm too lazy to do the research. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkt Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 At a final spur of the moment decision, I decided to save my pennies and go to Danananakroyd. It was alright but I wish I went to this instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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