KT Tunstall ‘ 2000 Years

 Again a snippet  -  so that muggins here will go searching for the FULL 

CHRISTMAS CLASSIC

TBF it is from KT's flckennabok page

Not the same version but it’ll do hey?

 The album track over a different vid

2000 miles?

KT TUNSTALL - Under The Weather

 She’s British so we’ve all been under the weather . . . it’s where we live!

KT says:

"Before the times of social media... us musicians had to be up early in the morning to perform on music TV shows!

Doing these shows was a lot of fun as you'd likely bump into whoever was releasing at the same time as you.

This clip is from the Under The Weather promo trail... meaning this was recorded not only early in the morning but in the middle of winter "

KT Tunstall 

Birthdays 50 | K T TUNSTALL

She cannot be FIFTY - just a wee lassie who I was only listening to this come out a couple of months back! No? 

we love her anyhoo!

Happy 50th birthday to KT Tunstall, born as Kate Tunstall in Edinburgh on this day in 1975.

courtesy Route

KT Tunstall on Later with Jools (her debut on the telebox?)

 just because . . . . . . .

just look at how she blows them all away this lil gal and her stomp box!

20 YEARS | KT TUNSTALL celebrates her debut on National TV

 

KT Tunstall debut on ‘Later’ with Jools!

"Happy 20th birthday to the night that changed my life…🥳Thanks NAS, I still owe you a beer…and thank you eternally to Jools & Later With Jools Holland for giving an unknown kid a spot - especially one where I got to meet Robert Smith from The Cure who even gave me a quote for my first press release! 🥹🖤 It was a beautiful start, so grateful xxx"

This is staggering stuff for a start! We love KT! 

 IVOR CUTLER

by KT TUNSTALL

A wonderful programme by KT Tunstall on Ivor Cutler last night over on Sky Arts channel (its on Freeview here in the UK now) and it was really well done. KT is a life long fan (as am I) and after discovering him through Virgin records and introduced to his recorded work by my dear old friend John Northcote [who worked for the label before running several music venues] and ran an independent record shop back in the day (the now legendary Sunshine Records in Oxford's Little Clarendon Street) 

Ivor was a favourite of Paul McCartney's and appeared in the Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour' film in 1967 as 'Buster Bloodvessel' the coach driver and 'guide' and on Neil Innes' television programmes. Ivor's account of Paul visiting Ivor here is not to be missed. Cutler also wrote books for children and adults (most seemingly out of print now sadly) and was a teacher at A. S. Neill's Summerhill School an interest of my father's (though possibly too 'far out' for him to risk sending one of his sons to!?) ) and for 30 years Ivor taught in inner-city schools in London.

I went on to see him read at the Old Fire Station Theatre here in town. Ivor cycling from the train station I guess as he arrived parked his Moulton style folding bicycle on the back of the stage and began his reading which was then promoting his wondrous book 'A Flat Man' (1998)  a signed copy now being very much a treasured possession. 

Beautifully, almost reverentially, done and featuring some excellent interviews with fans (Mighty Boosh's Noel Feilding to Robert Wyatt and partner the excellent artist Alfreda Benge with whom he was remarkably close) and even managed to find one of Ivor's sons, an old, again seemingly remarkably close, pen friend from Finnish Radio (sic) and his last wife the fellow poet Phyllis King.  Heart rending stuff. We are the poorer for his nolonger being with us. Beautifully done . . . . . . . . 

KT Tunstall on IVOR CUTLER- Sky Arts - GUARDIAN Review

For JohnnyC1959

'BLUE'

Johnny C, a fine photographer and fellow muso and blogger posted some shots of a few of his walks recently ( here  ) and they inspired his reflections on the colour blue and some references at the end of his post caused me to reflect myself on the colour . . . . . .so this is for him!

Johnny noted :
Other blues are available… 🙂

(i) Blue: (ii) Blue Remembered Hills: (iii) IKB 79: (iv) Kind Of Blue: (v) Sky Blue (something about football!)

Teasels… [Image © John Callaway 2020]

Go visit Johnny's wordpress page here Ideas & images from Portsmouth and beyond

so I thought I'd post a couple of blues of my own -

I met Derek Jarman at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford and he and his team filmed us upon his arrival to see and meet with the Deputy Director there, the wonderful Marco Livingstone, so it possible the archive of his films contains footage of yours truly! He was remarkable and super talented of course but I don't recall his visit resulting in a show but Marco would know better what happened there . . . . . . I watched Jarman's broadcast of a single still shot of the colour 'Blue' with his voice over and it seemed revolutionary to us all at the time. He is missed and the artworld is the poorer for his dying too early

I mentioned that Blue Remembered Hills as per Housman's famous lines from his 'A Shropshire Lad' drew me to think about the Dennis Potter play of that same name and a personal favourite with Helen Mirren, Janine Duvitski, Colin Welland and Michael Elphick with Colin Jeavons, John Bird and Robin Ellis cast as children and it evoked memories of my own childhood climbing trees and watching the world go by . . . . . . . my dad had moved his family down from Merseyside to the meadows of Oxfordshire in the early sixties when I was but a few years old and the countryside overwhelmed me with lots fascinating flora and fauna and spent an idyllic childhood playing in the meadow of Northern Oxford

Next . . . . . . 
Emily Barker (and her husband to be Lukas Drinkwater - here on bass) recorded this album 'Sweet Kind of Blue' dedicated to Sister Rosetta Tharpe and this is a great live version of a fine song . . . . .




one of my favourite Blues songs here by the master but written by JJ Cale (of course)


speaking of masters . . . . . . . . . Keb Mo




Can't have too many versions of this song . . . . . . . 


Bobby tells us about the blues . . . . . . 

it's all a bit random . . . . . . but enjoy . . . . . . 

. . . . .Blue Remembered Hills

UPDATE: and oddly by sheer coincidence Johnny posted this afternoon a set of pictures and notes on our shared connection to Oxford City as he and his other half came to do some genealogical research. 
Check his latest entry here: