Went to see K T Tunstall a couple of weeks ago at the Prince of Wales Bandroom, same place as the Hard-Fi gig last October.
She is stunning, not just musically. I think I fancy her – but dinnae tell the wife. Although she probably knows as she watched me take a photo of K T at the concert – standing about 2-3 metres from the stage, and replacing the photo/wallpaper of the missus with the K T pic.
A friend of mine told me that he went to see Travis in Boston last year or whenever and although he said it was the best concert he’s seen so far, there was a Scottish lassie behind him giving it laldie(sp?):
“Yeh, f**cking Scottish, yeh!”
“gaun yersel big man!”
And my personal favourite, when Fran introduced the band and brought on the stand-in guitarist Hans, or Klaus from Sweden:
“But he’s no even f*cking Scottish!”.
I bring that up as a couple of songs into the gig, I hear some familiar accents:
“Yeh K T, Scotland!”
And she plained ignored them, not that she couldn’t hear them as she mentioned that she could hear a lot of Irish people talking whilst she was singing. Could this be the same bampots as the Travis concert?! Surely not.
Anyways, she was great and she makes me proud to be Scottish. So much that I might shout that out and embarrass myself (and my fellow countrymen/women) at her next concert…
I should say that the support act – Newton Faulkner was stunning. I think he is going to be big, unless he already is as I never heard of him up to that point. Pop/folk singer and he did some amazing things with his guitar, whilst strumming away he simply tapped on it, sounding like he was assisted with drums. Amazing songs, stunning voice. Go buy his album: “Hand Built By Robots” and check out ‘I need something’, ‘Dream catch me’ and his version of Massive Attack’s ‘Teardrop’ – you’ll hear that drumming, its not percussion.
