The New Adelphi Club is proud to present This Is The Kit with support from Rozi Plain and Rachael Dadd.
This Is The Kit’s Kate Stables, Rozi & Rachael all grew up together as friends & kindred musical spirits /collaborators in Winchester, producing music of great beauty & the highest quality. An appearance of ‘The Winchester Three’ together is bound to be a very special evening indeed!
Doors 8 pm
Tickets £13 + BF from Hull Box Office
This Is The Kit is playful music rooted in folk, but encompassing elements of psychedelia, alternative rock, and electronic textures and sensibilities. Led by the supremely talented Kate Stables, with the magnificent assistance of Rozi Plain (bass / vocals) Neil Smith (guitar) Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums)
Now four albums deep, the story of This Is The Kit is one of time and change and listeners. It has carried Stables from Winchester to Bristol to Paris, across tours and festivals and the admiration of critics and her peers, among them The National, Sharon van Etten, Chris Thile (of Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, and now the host of A Prairie Home Companion), as well as Guy Garvey and much of BBC 6Music.
And the story has now led to Moonshine Freeze, This Is The Kit’s Rough Trade debut, and her most sonically accomplished and compelling album to date.
Sonically, Moonshine Freeze is a beguiling mixture of great musical sophistication and something more guileless — children’s games, incantations and snatches of nursery rhymes.
“Whether she’s singing about numerology or swimming off the Dorset coast, imaginative phrasing and vivid imagery abound. “ – The Guardian
“Folk music conventions blown up, then vividly reassembled, with jazz and world beat glimmering through the cracks. Here, experimental folk songs unlock truths occupying the space between dream states and waking life.” – Rolling Stone
“All of it is good” – ★★★★ Mojo Magazine.
ROZI PLAIN
The unassuming charm of Rozi’s live show has led to tours across Europe, the UK & USA. Along the way she has traversed countries and continents together with such like-minded luminaries as Devendra Banhart, KT Tunstall, James Yorkston and Viking Moses, as well as many appearances at festivals such as Green Man and End of the Road and opening the Park Stage at Glastonbury 2013. A BBC6 favourite Rozi has performed numerous live sessions for Marc Riley and Lauren Laverne. Whether performing alone or with an assembly of her regular musical allies (including François & the Atlas Mountains, This Is The Kit, Rachael Dadd and Being There) her uncluttered songs and effortless hooks create a blissful, singular voice.
“…utterly beguiling. It is intricate, sophisticated, atmospheric and at times mesmerising… tales of love and loss, joy and pain tough times survived and lessons leaned. There are pictures of places held dear, there is emotional release and a joy of simply being alive. Through it all there is a sense of wonder at the complexities and sometimes even the trivialities of life… interesting, sophisticated synth pop full of originality and artistic experimentations…” – Louder Than War
RACHAEL DADD
Living half her time as a travelling musician in Japan, witnessing how other people create things, connecting with other cultures and landscapes; all this is a furnace for Rachael Dadd`s innovative song writing.
A contemporary folk multi-instrumentalist, Rachael`s live show takes on multiple forms. In 2016 to 2017 her solo Piano and Projection show received an Emerging Excellence Award and toured venues and festivals in the UK and Japan. She has just completed her first full band tour in Japan attended by many renowned Japanese musicians with talk of the band being “currently one of the best in Japan”.
“Bold art folk… accomplished fusion of words, acoustic strumming and wild percussive textures.” – UNCUT
“Experimental folk multi-instrumentalist Dadd is one of the quirkiest singer songwriters on earth but she’s also one of the best… a richly eclectic sonic treat.” – HIFI NEWS 9/10
