One of the British fans on the Patty Griffin forum sent me a DVD of musical TV segments shown by the BBC. I was most impressed by this soulful, sassy, self-sampling half-Chinese half-Scottish singer/songwriter who I had never heard of. I ordered her album (not yet released in the US) used from Amazon after seeing this performance, which blew me away. If you have broadband and can play mp4 videos, you can download it from my website here and check her out. The file is 106Mb and I have bandwidth restrictions, so it may take a while.

She played in NYC just last week, but I found out about it too late.

Uh... that's a text file. I think?

Worked for me...it plays fine in any DVD player software, I used Nero Showtime and Power DVD. Of course I didn't even bother with Windows Media Player and the like...

And all I can say is WOW!

Hmm... I really don't know what my problem is. I'm gonna blame Wheaton's ResNet for this.

i watched this last night. looks like i could be hooked on yet another chick singer. pretty impressive stuff.

It's big and takes a while to down load even with a cable modem. Interesting stuff...

Skoegahom...

Reposting this link in case you KT fans missed it:

KT Tunstall's rockin' New Years Eve!

Those of you thinking about her show at Birdy's probably wanna get tickets real soon -- she's gonna be attracting a lot of attention after this North American tour gets started in a couple of weeks.

I watched that last nite... very good!

Thanks for the heads up about Birdy's.

Fanf**kintastic...Thanks for the Link Keith. It's downloading as I watch.
I never heard her before.

yeah, keith got me hooked on her a couple of months ago. a very cool sound.

birdy's, huh? not a bad drive...

North American dates announced so far:

Sun, 01/15/06
08:00 PM KT Tunstall
Miscellaneous Venues Ottawa
Ottawa, ON

Fri, 01/20/06
09:00 PM KT Tunstall
The Paradise Lounge
Boston, MA
http://www.thedise.com/lounge/index.html

Sat, 01/21/06
09:00 PM KT Tunstall
World Cafe Live: Upstairs Live
Philadelphia, PA
http://tickets.worldcafelive.com/eventperf...es.asp?evt=1111

Mon, 01/23/06
08:00 PM KT Tunstall
Shelter
Detroit, MI

Tue, 01/24/06
08:00 PM KT Tunstall
Schubas
Chicago, IL

Wed, 01/25/06
06:30 PM KT Tunstall
Quest Club
Minneapolis, MN

Fri, 01/27/06
09:30 PM KT Tunstall
Crocodile Cafe
Seattle, WA

Sat, 01/28/06
07:00 PM KT Tunstall
Richards On Richards
Vancouver, BC

Tues, 1/31/2006
9:00 PM KT Tunstall
Slims
San Francisco, CA

Tues, 02/02/06
8:00 PM KT Tunstall
The Troubadour
West Hollywood, CA

Thu, 02/04/06
08:30 PM KT Tunstall
The Casbah
San Diego, CA

Wed, 03/08/06
08:30 PM KT Tunstall
Birdys
Indianapolis, IN

I believe that KT Tunstall's Eye To the Telescope will be released in the USA February 7th!

Woo hoooo
Woo hoooo

Skoegahom...

Oh no. I've never heard her, keith says she's coming to MI this month, two weeks before her album comes out...you highly recommend her...what to do...what to do....
I'm having visions of missing Hem in concert last year, two weeks before I fell in love with their music.
I am having a dilemma!

I have a live recording of her on KCWRs Morning Become Eclectic from the beginning of December--six tunes and two interview segments. This was taken from Dimeadozen (enjoying the new broadband!). Shall I vine it?

Sure! I'm terrible with vines but perhaps a friend of mine could sign up and get a copy for us!! Thanks for offering.

just wondering, since I haven't downloaded anything or heard of her before,
can someone who's heard her tell me who she would be comparable to musically

she's here in the twin ciites end of jan so will check it out

album out feb 7th huh- that makes 4 new ones released that i'll have to get that day-yikes!

kent

give her a listen here

peace,
zayne

Wouldn't download for me.. Thanks for trying!

A good show recorded in Liverpool a couple of weeks ago can be downloaded from here (for now, anyway). It is a zip file of mp3s.

Keith,
Thanks for that. You're a prince.
Prince Keith
from New York


yeah.

You can thank my PattyPal Melissa actually, she put up the file. I'll be seeing KT with her in Philly Saturday night.

Taking the train up to Boston in the morning, have a great weekend and I'll talk to y'all Sunday night!

So, in what is becoming a 2006 tradition (following my experience with Imogen Heap), I finally hear this album, realize it's f'ing genius, and discover her show in Chicago is already sold out.


Seriously, Schubas is a great venue, but it holds about 150 people...if you know there's going to be more than that trying to get in, play a bigger venue.

Same thing here in the Twin towns. I went to get tix today, sold out. She was supposed to be at a larger club
(the Quest) and they moved it to a smaller one- in Dinkeytown. no less. this one shoulda been a First Ave for sure. Got her US release to look forward to on the 7th of Feb anyway.

kent

If there's anyone left who hasn't downloaded the UK version that's been available for months.

Saw KT play in Boston last night - she wore the same dress she used for her unscheduled appearance on the Today show yesterday morning. Great show to a packed house, and she came off the bus afterward to say hi to my friend Nicole and me.

Off to Philly to see her down there.

Alright - life is bizarre - I just *discovered* her this morning b/c her music has been played on Grey's Anatomy. Then I see this thread. Yesterday - never heard of her.... Today - she's everywhere and it's only 10:20 in the morning for me....

she *is* everywhere...while channel surfing, I caught a segment about her on VH1.

What a great weekend! Spoke to KT again before the show in Philly last night before she did her sound check. She was very friendly, and I think she kinda likes having a middle-aged groupie here in the states.

A few pics from last night's show at World Cafe Live, which was packed with a very appreciative audience:









The show was broadcast live on WXPN, my only complaint is that it was even shorter than Boston. You can download mp3s recorded from broadcast here, at least for now.

Looking forward to seeing her again in March when she comes back through with her band.

And she's coming right through the midwest again and not stopping in Chicago.

I'd totally suck it up and try to get to Indianapolis but that's not gonna happen in the middle of the week.

This is killing me...this album is incredible, i've been playing it nonstop all week alternating with the Frou Frou album which I also just got.

Thanks Keith for the review, the pix and the download...
She looks and sounds awesome....love that deep Scottish accent. xoxo

Say...Who was the "middle-aged groupie" about whom you speak??

Thanks for the download - totally enjoying it....

here's a review of KT's show in Mpls on Wed night 1/25
i missed it, it was sold out too fast
kent


MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

Last update: January 26, 2006 – 8:50 PM

Concert review: Hot Scottish newcomer KT Tunstall lives up to the U.K. hype.
Before her CD is released, a new Scottish singer lived up to the U.K. hype in her Cities debut .
Jon Bream, Star Tribune

Call it buzz. Call it hype. Whatever it was, there was a full house Wednesday night at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis to see a new Scottish pop singer two weeks before her debut album is released in the United States.
If the 475 people at KT Tunstall's Twin Cities debut had been mostly Anglophiles (you can spot 'em by their hairdos and clothes), that would have been understandable since she is a bona fide U.K. phenomenon, having sold 1.2 million copies of "Eye to the Telescope" and earning nominations for the Mercury Prize and the Brits, U.K.'s Grammys.

But the female-dominated crowd looked like a bevy of Cities 97 listeners (you can spot 'em because you've seen em at the Basilica Block Party and other Cities events). They'd gotten hooked on the Tunstall tune "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" that Cities 97 has been playing like it's the hottest debut single since Norah Jones' "Don't Know Why." (The newcomer also sang on "The Today Show" last Friday.)

In a too-short 50-minute set at the Varsity, Tunstall came across as fresh but familiar. Nearly every song suggested some other artist you've heard on Cities 97 -- Melissa Etheridge, Dido, Bonnie Raitt, Norah Jones, Beth Orton, Sheryl Crow and even Coldplay -- and that made for comfortable listening to completely unfamiliar tunes.

Tunstall, 30, showed a confident, dusky voice on her enjoyably melodic tunes, filled with world-weary but not angst-ridden lyrics. Despite being dwarfed by her guitar, the diminutive singer seemed assured onstage, accompanied by her tall drummer, Lucky Luke.

"We're the White Stripes' country cousins from Britain," the instantly likable, London-based rookie said.

The stripped-down musical approach was effective, with Tunstall switching between acoustic and electric guitar, and foot-triggering loops of rhythm machines or backup vocals while her standup drummer played appropriately understatedly.

The highlights were the sassy, southern-fried "Stoppin' the Love"; "Suddenly I See" with its hooky Top 40 chorus; "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree," a bluesy gallop with the haunting allure of Alannah Myles' "Black Velvet"; and an encore of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" oozing with youthful yearning.

Like Norah Jones, who did a show in St. Paul in January 2002 a few weeks before her first soon-to-be-smash album was released, Tunstall made a strong impression in her brief Twin Cities debut.

The Scottish star actually knows her way around the States a bit; she attended prep school in Connecticut and then lived in a U.S. hippie commune. But on Wednesday she was truly taken by the size of the Twin Cities crowd after having been in town for "only 15 minutes," she joked. She promised to come back soon -- with her full band and perhaps a smash U.S. album.


Jon Bream • 612-673-1719

©2006 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.

KT is 30?! never would have guessed that.

thanks for posting the review!

Thanks Kent!

This is my favorite Jacksons cover ever.

iTunes has KT Tunstall's Today show performance (video) available free for download. I found it on the Music Store homepage.

Kent, Thanks for sharing the review. I thought she was much younger than 30, as well.
Keith, Thanks for the video...there's another available there too (BBHAACT). I don't think I've ever heard another cover of I Want You Back..She does it great.
Stiv, Thanks for the headsup, but I couldn't find it.

KT is adorable. I wonder if she'll bring here tour to CO.

You may have to search for her name...It just happened to come up as one of the rotating ads at the top of the music store.

The unfortunate thing about the Itunes store...it is slow as hell...

From her website--note Mar. 14


Crocodile Cafe, Seattle
Fri 27th January

Richard's On Richards, Vancouver
Sat 28th January

Doug Fir Lounge, Portland
Mon 30th January

Slims, San Francisco
Tue 31st January

Troubadour, Los Angeles
Thu 2nd February

Mod Club, Toronto
Wed 1st March

Bowery ballroom, New York
Thu 2nd March

Paradise, Boston
Fri 3rd March

Rams Head, Annapolis
Sun 5th March

House of Blues, Cleveland
Tue 7th March

Birdy's, Indianapolis
Wed 8th March

Blueberry Hill, St. Louis
Thu 9th March

Vinyl, Atlanta
Sat 11th March

3rd & Lindsley, Nashville
Sun 12th March

Fox Theatre & Cafe, Boulder
Tue 14th March

Gypsy Tea Room, Dallas
Wed, 15th March

Fitzgerald's, Houston
Thu 16th March

Yowza...The Fox is just a few minutes from my house. I'm there!.
Thanks for looking, Shawn.

**I just checked The Fox website...tix not on sale yet. It isn't even listed...must have just been added.

Trudes,

If you search the iTunes store for KT Tunstall, the Today show video will come up in the list.

stivmc

Got it....Thanks.

A couple of pics from the Minneapolis show posted on KT's message board (which is a madhouse, btw):





Trudes, that's great she's stopping by to visit you! Glad I've already got my tix for NYC and Boston.

Thanks Keith,
I just registered on her message board....I'm Trudes there as well!

Trudes and Keith, when you see her, tell her to add another Chicago date and play a venue bigger than my living room, k? Thanks.

For anyone in Southern California interested, a local radio station (KPRI) is offering the following:

You've been hearing and asking about KT's song "Black Horse & the Cherry Tree," now join us for a KPRI Private Concert with KT Tunstall at the Hard Rock Cafe in La Jolla on Friday, February 3, 2006.

The concert is FREE. Seating is limited and by invitation only. Once the seats are all gone you'll be left out in the cold, on the sidewalk peering in through the windows.

As a KPRI FREEQ, you can get two free tickets (provided you are 21 years or older).

Get your tickets at REI in San Diego and Encinitas, Leaping Lotus in Solana Beach and Aspire Interior Design & Showroom in Vista.

Al-riiiiight.
I just secured the two tickets at the Fox for K T's show....receipt in hand.
Thanks again for the clue...It will most likely sell out fast.

And I've finally officially purchased my ticket for KT's show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. Woooo...

I ordered her CD from Amazom.com a week or two ago and it just arrived here in Cincinnati today. It looked like it was shipped from someones garage (dirty and mashed up, the package that is, not the CD). It came from Argentia and had $6.25 in postage marked on it! I know I didn't pay that much for shipping. I hope thats not US $.

Anyway, I've aready listened to it through twice while I was working. Very good CD!!! Up until now I had only heard the songs with just her and her sampleing toy. I've really enjoyed those but its kind of cool to hear her with the band. I now have another favorite! Two thumbs up.

WXPN-FM has been playing Black Horse for awhile now, but it wasn't until last night I went to her website and checked out the link for the video of I Want You Back....and like Keith, I was blown away by this performance and cover. Keith, I missed reading this topic earlier and regret that I missed an opportunity of meeting up with you to see the Word Cafe Live at WXPN-FM in Philadelphia, a short drive and a train ride away.

Thanks everybody for all your postings here about KT. I need to get her CD's...

She only has one album so far, and it will be in the stores here next week.

Sorry I missed you too, Carolyn. She may be coming back to Philly in March, I'll let you know if I hear anything (the U.S. moderator for KT's forum lives in Downingtown and is a pal of mine).