Kate Staples, who essentially if the driving motor and heart of This is the Kit has been an important part of many people lives for some years now. This seems to be set to continue and the loving bond to harden, with the release of her latest record. Careful of Your Keepers.
Out of Winchester, Kate has channeled the Folk spirit with her ongoing project for over fifteen years now. I've always found her records almost mathematical in terms of their symmetry and unity.
There's a calm authority in her delivery that radiates health and vision. It feels like you're in the company of someone you know and love and trust intimately. A walk in the countryside with the promise of a pub lunch at the point of arrival. Thirty five minutes with an old and deeply valued friend.
Careful of Your Keepers has a tick tock certitude that's deeply reassuring in these troubled times. In November the band will kick off a 50 part UK and European tour which will take them from Edinburgh, Tunbridge Wells, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Leipzig, Rheims among their destinations and then on to New York. One stop on this trek is The Sage in Gateshead, less than a couple of miles from where I'm sitting listening and writing this. I'm already planning. Plotting my co-ordinates
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