KT Tunstall tonight. Playing to an intimate crowd at BBC Scotland’s studios on January 29th of this year and broadcast as part of The Quay Sessions with Roddy Hart.
Always a favorite ever since first hearing her via MySpace around 2006, KT Tunstall has succeeded admirably in putting Scotland on the map as one of the places where new music and new ideas seem to be flying out of the woodwork.
In August 2023, Tunstall released an album of duets with Suzi Quatro entitled Face to Face. After discovering they were mutual fans of each other, they were put in touch with each other by a mutual friend.[80] In November 2023, KT Tunstall was announced as a contributor to a revised version of Clueless, a new musical adapted from the 1995 film. It premiered in the UK at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley in February 2024 featuring an original score by Tunstall and lyricist Glenn Slater. The musical is set for a West End premiere at the Trafalgar Theatre in February 2025.
Tunstall is known for her live performances, using an Akai E2 Headrush loop pedal which she affectionately calls “Wee Bastard”, in her solo performances and with a full four-piece backing band (Luke Bullen on drums, Arnulf Lindner on bass, Sam Lewis on lead guitar and Kenny Dickenson on keyboards, trumpet, percussion and various other instruments), as well as her two backing vocalists, Cat Sforza and Ami Richardson.
After her debut on the BBC’s Later… with Jools Holland, Tunstall performed on various American talk shows, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show on 21 September 2007. She has since performed at many large concerts and festivals such as the Hogmanay Edinburgh Concert in 2005. Tunstall said prior to that performance: “This is the gig of a lifetime… This Hogmanay party is probably the best-known and best-loved in the world, and I’ve been here a few times over the years dreaming of being the one entertaining the crowds. Until we’re on that stage I won’t believe we’re allowed on it.” She has also performed at the Glastonbury Festival several times, from 2005 to 2019; the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, the American leg of Live Earth in 2007, and the Nobel Peace Prize Concert also in 2007.
As a bonus, there is an interview between Roddy Hart and KT Tunstall at the mid-point in the concert/session.
So tonight it’s words and Music from the one and only KT Tanstall
