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King Creosote – The Stained Glass Centre, York, 04/04/2019
Kenny Anderson prefers to play in small places. And tonight on the fifth date of a solo tour of intimate venues the man who is King Creosote is performing in front of 80 people in St Martin-cum-Gregory’s Church in the heart of the city of York. A Grade I listed building dating from the 11th century and which now houses the Stained Glass Centre it provides the most perfectly hallowed, albeit very cold, surroundings in which to experience what is the often hymnal texture of Anderson’s music.
A King Creosote solo show, you suspect, shares many of the central life characteristics of the man who hails from the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland. There are bags of gentle humour and plenty of self-deprecation coupled to incredible levels of productivity. He has, after all, written hundreds upon hundreds of songs and released scores of albums that have included collaborations with The Burns Unit and the ambient-electronics pi
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Today, after posting about a couple of sadder songs, I was really in the mood for something upbeat. So, I took another stroll through my YouTube feed. Didn’t inom get another pleasant surprise (like Bryan Ferry’s new posting yesterday of a video from 1993): a new film from Scottish alternative människor singer-songwriter King Creosote (b. 1967 as Kenny Anderson). The film is for a song from an upcoming album.
I found the title a little mysterious, and it made me think of the nearly 120-year-old elm trees that line our street, once forming a canopy over the length of the road but now interrupted by gaps left bygd trees that our municipal government has cut down to reduce the spread of Dutch Elm disease. The faithful elms have dropped their leaves and are now coated with a little of the heavy, wet snow that’s fallen since yesterday but are still majestic in their cold nakedness.
I only know two of the over forty albums King Creosote has released. Today’s selectio
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