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Kat Flint is the child of research scientists and the palest individual ever to be born in Barbados. She was raised in the chill northern climes of Aberdeen and came of age in Edinburgh, but is now hundreds of miles from home and finding that splendid isolation is all the better for writing songs.
Debut release The Secret Boy’s Club is a love letter to the children we were, the adults we become and the places we make for ourselves in the world. Recorded in a living room on a shoestring, with an ear for a good tune, a mischievous sense of fun and an ever-expanding arsenal of playschool instruments (and cardboard boxes), it’s a slice of the good, old-fashioned lyrical wrapped in the home-made whimsical. Good people do bad things. Bad people do bad things. Children grow up, grow bored and grow wise. Bombs go off and we all go back to work.
Kat was the winner of the inaugral New Lyric Award, presented by Ray Davies and Channel 4’s Ideasfactory, and spent March 2006 touring with Rough Trade’s folk darlings Cara Dillon and Sam (“brother-of-Seth”) Lakeman, playing 16 dates across the UK as chief tour support. Someone told her she was pretty good on guitar “for a girl”. She wasn’t sure if that was a compliment…
She has released two download-only singles, ‘Go Faster Stripes’ (December 2007) and ‘Christopher, You’re A Soldier Now’ (April 2008), which preceded her debut album Dirty Birds, which was released on the 15th of September, 2008 (after a limited edition run that was hand-produced by Kat in mid-2007).
Debut release The Secret Boy’s Club is a love letter to the children we were, the adults we become and the places we make for ourselves in the world. Recorded in a living room on a shoestring, with an ear for a good tune, a mischievous sense of fun and an ever-expanding arsenal of playschool instruments (and cardboard boxes), it’s a slice of the good, old-fashioned lyrical wrapped in the home-made whimsical. Good people do bad things. Bad people do bad things. Children grow up, grow bored and grow wise. Bombs go off and we all go back to work.
Kat was the winner of the inaugral New Lyric Award, presented by Ray Davies and Channel 4’s Ideasfactory, and spent March 2006 touring with Rough Trade’s folk darlings Cara Dillon and Sam (“brother-of-Seth”) Lakeman, playing 16 dates across the UK as chief tour support. Someone told her she was pretty good on guitar “for a girl”. She wasn’t sure if that was a compliment…
She has released two download-only singles, ‘Go Faster Stripes’ (December 2007) and ‘Christopher, You’re A Soldier Now’ (April 2008), which preceded her debut album Dirty Birds, which was released on the 15th of September, 2008 (after a limited edition run that was hand-produced by Kat in mid-2007).
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KatFlint wrote:
Hooray! Gig! This Wednesday! With the awesome Unrecorded and the globetrotting Edward Guglielmino. Doors at 7.30pm. A bargainous fiver. A lovely venue - the Old Queen's Head in Angel. More details here: http://www.musicglue.net/earmusic/eventdetails/4-jan-12-kat-flint-old-queens-head/
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CameronKabookie wrote:
Dirty Birds is easily one of my favorite albums of all time. I'd love to see more from this artist.
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YinoftheYang wrote:
Kat Flint is absolutely amaaaaazing. <3
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KatFlint wrote:
Hello! Mega short notice as ever, but I'm playing a little solo show at the Dogstar in Brixton, London tonight if anyone fancies it - 8.30pm :) (Coldharbour Lane/Atlantic Road - 2 mins from tube). Transport chaos be damned!
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KatFlint wrote:
Hello! I now have a Facebook music page - I'll try and keep it up-to-date for anyone who's interested :) Thought I'd post it here just in case: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kat-Flint/6148719087
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oldschoollegend wrote:
new material please!
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KatFlint wrote:
Holy smokes!! Even I wouldn't pay that much :( How very strange...
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XT500 wrote:
Wow, her CD is availabe at amazon for less than 100€ ! http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B000H309ZQ/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1265713105&sr=8-1-catcorr
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Monekone wrote:
I know your sister, Rowan Flint...Anyway, I think you're really good! <3
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canopiesngrapes wrote:
He's gone again! It's alright!
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averycampbell wrote:
I spent 2 months looking for your CD...
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canopiesngrapes wrote:
Lupen Crook has infiltrated!
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locovoco wrote:
Every time i listen to "Anticlimax" it's guaranteed to bring a smile to my face.
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panxo_kt wrote:
I love she, i like teh song "anticlimax" is for natacha ^.^
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jthinch wrote:
Love the album, especially the title track. My favourite album of 2008 :-)
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canopiesngrapes wrote:
Is it really impatient to want a new album already?
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celticblade wrote:
There's a free download of Kat covering Silent Night here: http://www.neednowaterrecords.com/christmas.htm
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tangledbank wrote:
I saw you in your recent union chapel gig on Friday and it was heavenly (nothing to do with the surroundings). Woke up with your music going round in my head on Sunday morning, definitely getting the album.
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mors_ontologica wrote:
I missed your last gig in Norwich and I've not seen you since you supported Cara Dillon! COME BACK AGAIN!
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kristenwarncke wrote:
ahh pretty
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Arcadia Lost but Betsey Wins...
17 Jun 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/katflint
A year or so ago I recorded a new, dark and spiderwebby
version of Go Faster Stripes for the lovely producers of
Arcadia Lost, the directorial debut from Oscar winning
cinematographer
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Arcadia Lost but Betsey Wins...
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30 May 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/katflint
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monicaokane, hammyful, eloislamb and 1 other person added Kat Flint to their libraries. last month
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KatFlint added Kat Flint to the lineup of Hungamunga Musicarium at The Baby Bathhouse. December 2011
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KatFlint added Kat Flint to the lineup of Standon Calling at Autumn Shift @ Camp Nirvana. December 2011
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KatFlint added Kat Flint to the lineup of eARmusic @ The Old Queens Head at Old Queen's Head. December 2011
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KatFlint added Kat Flint to the lineup of New Year's Eve Party at The Clore Ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall. December 2011
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closedown181, OmarZaman, g2-man and 4 other people added Kat Flint to their libraries. December 2011
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Serebryakov_Dan tagged Kat Flint with singer-songwriter and folk. August 2011
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kevbonham, Exit1a, hillarye23 and 2 other people added Kat Flint to their libraries. August 2011
- Kat Flint posted a news item ‘Tour Update: line-up & times at each venue :)’. May 2011
- Kat Flint posted a news item ‘Gig @ 10 Gales Gallery - Tues 1st June 2010’. May 2011
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