Ever wanted to curate a set from one of the UK’s most exceptional singer-songwriters?
Well now you have the chance, as Kathryn Williams invites you to handpick your favourite songs from her phenomenal back-catalogue and hear them at a rather special gig at Queen Elizabeth Hall on Saturday 25 September.
Ever since her debut album Dog Leap Stairs, she’s been making records that are exquisitely intimate and subtly intricate with bittersweet lyrical turns and honey-voiced tales. Little Black Numbers garnered her a Mercury Music Prize nomination while albums such as 2006’s Leave to Remain, her collaboration with Neill MacColl, Two, and her latest effort The Quickening have cemented her reputation as one of the nation’s finest.
So if you fancy picking your favourites, some rarely-heard album tracks or even a couple of covers ranging from Pavement to The Velvet Underground, just vote below. The top 5 tracks will be played by Kathryn at the gig.
Once you’ve done that, just tell us your favourite Kathryn Williams album in the comment box below and you could win a pair of tickets to this unique retrospective of a decade of songwriting.
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My favourite album is ‘Dog Leap Stairs’. I listened to it when it very first came out and had just left Newcastle – I recognized, indeed, knew the places conjured up in the songs…Leazes Park, Dog Leap Stairs…It had that magic, that album, and a roughness that has noticeably been smoothed over in her subsequent ones, lovely and tuneful as they are. I still play it, but not often. It makes me feel sad and lost and very young again, but it also reminds me that I’m not these things anymore.
[…] So if you fancy picking your favourites, some rarely-heard album tracks or even a couple of covers ranging from Pavement to The Velvet Underground you can vote at the Southbank Centre’s site here http://bit.ly/biN03x […]
Favourite Kathryn Williams albumn is Little Black Numbers – just love the track Soul to feet.
My favourite album is Little Black Numbers. Flicker was the song that made me fall in love with that wonderful voice and want to hear more.
Despite a fontanelle-esque soft spot for Little Black Numbers, it has to be Relations.Kathryn’s voice on …Broken Dream and Birds is a thing of fragile beauty, and yet her reimagining of Spit on a Stranger transcends even them. It takes a sarky too-clever-by-half indie anthem and makes it just the sweetest ache. Like an early Jonathan Coe novel – a little pulsating jewel of a thing. Lovely
My favourite album is Little Black Numbers. There is a great consistency in the high quality of the tracks, although if I had to pick one it would be Soul to Feet with Jasmine Loop just behind. The album Relations has some great tracks, but less consistent. I’ve even started listening to Bee Gees records since hearing Kathryn’s rendition of I Started A Joke.
Little Black Numbers is No.1
Furarelz? That’s marvelously good to know.
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