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KT Tunstall - Southampton Joiners

4th March 2005
Adrian Tang

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Wdnessday 9th February 2005: Imagine being the adopted child of Scottish parents brought up in St. Andrews with a touch of Chinese blood. This, at first, odd mixture yields the phenomenal talent, KT Tunstall. The diminutive beauty carefully picked her way through the capacity Joiners crowd with her band and declared, "well, I was considering wearing a skirt until I saw this elevated position." This set the tone for the evening as she joked amiably with the crowd.

She also set the standard with the quality of her music. Launching into "Another Place To Fall", her voice drifted around the whole of the Joiners. Next, in "Miniature Disasters" she used her sampler to record her harmonies and then played them back in the chorus. However gigs can be a perilous place for recording samples as Tunstall discovered whilst taking samples for "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree". During one of her harmony samples, a girl screaming her approval was caught by the sampler. Tunstall deflected the damage deftly by quipping, "wow, that was a B she just hit."

The set continued without further interruption, with cameo appearances from a trumpet, cello and a dustbin lid. When she finished her set with "Suddenly I See", she came back on stage to a rapturous applause. She finally sang "Throw Me A Rope" solo, which sent shivers down my spine. As she brushed past on her way out, I can not help but believe there are big things for this remarkable young lady.