KITTY DAISY & LEWIS RETURN – AUCKLAND & WELLINGTON shows
With special guest Mr Delaney Davidson
Tuesday 31st January – Auckland at The Powerstation
Wednesday 1st February – Wellington at Bodega
Messin’ With My Life
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=nJg8RoJzXcs
I’m So Sorry
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=SyKmukkJTVQ&feature=related
Don’t Make A Fool Out OF Me
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ogqcc0CkMIo&feature=relmfu
www.kittydaisyandlewis.com
www.delaneydavidson.com
Following their two sold-out tours of NZ in 2010 and 2011,Kitty, Daisy & Lewis make their third visit to NZ to promote
their acclaimed second album Smoking In Heaven.
The multi-instrumentalist Durham siblings hail from Kentish Town, London and have released two self-recorded albums of
swing, jump-blues and ska. Their second album is something of a departure from the template established on their
eponymous debut - while their first album reflected their tender years - the soundtrack to a very cool school dance
- Smoking in Heaven is a more rollicking and reckless knees-up for grown-ups. (Scott Kara, NZ Herald).
Youngest member Kitty celebrated her 18th birthday the day of their show at the Powerstation in January and its
difficult to believe she is a grizzled veteran who has been performing live for more than 10 years. Her howling
harmonica solos are a particular live highlight.
Equally precocious is Lewis who cuts his own 78s and cobbled together a comprehensive home studio from vintage analog
equipment.
Between them, the trio play guitar, piano, banjo, lap-steel guitar, harmonica, xylophone, double bass, ukulele, trombone
and accordion, swapping instruments between songs. Live, their line-up is augmented by mum Ingrid (from legendary
post-punkers The Raincoats) on double bass, dad Daddy Grazz on guitar and legendary octogenarian Jamaican trumpet player
Eddie Tan Tan Thornton who turns 80 in 2012. (remembering amongst other highlights in his fascinating career, he has played on The
Beatles Revolver LP)
Joining Kitty Daisy & Lewis on these two shows will be part man part wheel, Delaney Davidson who is part wandering minstrel, part travelling salesman. One hand holds a small brown suitcase, his trade, his ghost orchestra, the other holds his guitar. One foot firmly in the Blues Trash corner of the ring, the other on the road, you could say Delaney sees music as he sees geography, and that although he has certain preferences, in fact all territories are up for grabs. Touring the globe, Davidson has turned homelessness into a success of its own. Man of a thousand faces, his work with paint, music, film and concept all has traces of his unique take on life. Part new world and part old world, this duality is echoed in the flavours he evokes with his work; Past VS present, too loud for folk VS too quiet for rock, Light VS Dark, Davidsons restless work refuses to be still for the portrait it is asked to sit for. A pattern we see in his own restless life, indeed, the apple never falls far from the tree.
“One rotten apple ruins the whole barrel” laughs Delaney when asked to describe his work. “But then I think we all need a few rotten apples, and sometimes that’s where the flavour comes from, ripe vs rotten, where does one cross over into the other”
Tickets on presale 29th through www.muchmoremusic.co.nz and
www.powerstation.net.nz
General sale from the 1st December from Ticketmaster and
Real Groovy and Wellington’s Rough Peel Music store.
