Crumbs! I got played twice by Tom Ravenscroft on BBC 6Music last week!
WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY
And I'm on the BBC 6Music Recommends playlist! This is just super!
PLAYLIST
Thanks very much Tom!
MK
Monday 15 September 2014
Monday 25 August 2014
Saturday 23 August 2014
TINY MIX TAPES REVIEW
Woke up yesterday to a great surprise. A wonderful review of Be Kind on Tiny Mixtapes. Over the freakin' moon. Click HERE to read it in its natural habitat, or just scroll below... Thanks TMT! MK
DoubleDotDash might be the most wildly inconsistent, content-wise, cassette label out there, but it also might be the most consistently rewarding. The label that brought you that INSANE Blackhoods tape as well as worthwhile releases from Workin Man Noise Unit and Personnel shifts gears yet again to bring you Wild Island’s Be Kind, an Amen Dunes-ish exodus into solo-songwriter territory that makes more sense emanating from a cave than the speakers of a record room. The fidelity of this release is perfect for the tape medium, as it hisses a bit, and sounds like the wind is blowing throughout, yet all the little accents Knight tosses in get fully fleshed out. These are songs you can reminisce to, or sit by a creek and space-out to on headphones, or watch the drifting clouds to, or fall in love to; it all makes sense as Knight constantly offers the listener fresh reasons to spelunk further down his hollow hole. The flip even provides some blurry, heavier instrumentals if you’re looking for something a little more electric (Remember, I said IF: I actually prefer the mellower material.), not to mention a hulking bed of noise we heard less of on Side A. All in a days work for Knight and, by extension, DDD.
DoubleDotDash might be the most wildly inconsistent, content-wise, cassette label out there, but it also might be the most consistently rewarding. The label that brought you that INSANE Blackhoods tape as well as worthwhile releases from Workin Man Noise Unit and Personnel shifts gears yet again to bring you Wild Island’s Be Kind, an Amen Dunes-ish exodus into solo-songwriter territory that makes more sense emanating from a cave than the speakers of a record room. The fidelity of this release is perfect for the tape medium, as it hisses a bit, and sounds like the wind is blowing throughout, yet all the little accents Knight tosses in get fully fleshed out. These are songs you can reminisce to, or sit by a creek and space-out to on headphones, or watch the drifting clouds to, or fall in love to; it all makes sense as Knight constantly offers the listener fresh reasons to spelunk further down his hollow hole. The flip even provides some blurry, heavier instrumentals if you’re looking for something a little more electric (Remember, I said IF: I actually prefer the mellower material.), not to mention a hulking bed of noise we heard less of on Side A. All in a days work for Knight and, by extension, DDD.
Friday 1 August 2014
Mick Turner
Mick Turner is flat-out one of my favourite musicians. 'nuff said.
I am therefore happy as a pig in shit to be supporting him on 16th August.
He doesn't tour much, and he's coming all the way from Austrailia. To Reading. So don't mess about with this. Even if you've never listened to his music before this is not to be missed.
Bravo to South St for booking him up.
As for me, expect lots of new music and a new album, After Rain.
See you there,
MK. The Other Other W.I.
Tickets, info, etc: http://www.readingtownhall.co.uk/southstreet/event.asp?id=SX797A-A7824408
I am therefore happy as a pig in shit to be supporting him on 16th August.
He doesn't tour much, and he's coming all the way from Austrailia. To Reading. So don't mess about with this. Even if you've never listened to his music before this is not to be missed.
Bravo to South St for booking him up.
As for me, expect lots of new music and a new album, After Rain.
See you there,
MK. The Other Other W.I.
Tickets, info, etc: http://www.readingtownhall.co.uk/southstreet/event.asp?id=SX797A-A7824408
Sunday 16 February 2014
wild island
my new album, Be Kind, can be streamed, downloaded and purchased on cassette (incl download) from DOUBLEDOTDASH!? here:
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