This is the Kit have announced they are releasing a new 7-track EP titled ‘Off Off Oddities’ on Rough Trade Records. The EP is a follow-up to last year’s ‘Off Off On’ EP (which reached 21 in the UK album charts). Today they are sharing their cover of ‘Bad Feeling’ by NYC-based supergroup Muzz. It’s a beautiful song, one that Kate Stables found some solace in during the first pandemic…we all need our balm for these crazy times and the band really work their magic on this number…their joined chorus “so long, so long, bad feeling” is especially memorable.
While they have a distinctive sound, every new offering from This is the Kit offers something new…sometimes dramatic, other times in the shades of expression. Their approach to music often feels quite visceral, especially on covers like this where it maybe represents more of a response or interpretation to another’s work. In the words of Philip Larkin (Letters to Monica): “Originality is being different from oneself, not others.” That’s something they seem to have perfected in their approach to music.
Kate on the EP and the Muzz cover “In the making of an album there are inevitably bits and bobs that don’t get used. And sometimes you feel like sharing them with folks to kind of show a bit the story and geology and important people who played a part in the album’s making and releasing.
“Another recording from the sessions we did with the French team Lucien Chatin and Romain Vasset and Jesse. This is a song that I got really obsessed with during the first part of the pandemic. It was a real soothing balm during such a mental time. So, it felt like a nice idea to try and learn to play it. It was kind of a last-minute idea to make a recording of it and Lucien and Romain learned it quickly and played it beautifully. Very happy memories.”
Off Off Oddities is released 15 June 2021
Off Off Oddities Tracklisting:
- Recommencer feat. Mina Tindle
- Was Magician (Live at L’Épicerie Moderne.)
- Found Out (Horns Version)
- Coming to Get You Nowhere (Joe’s Garage Version)
- Keep Going (Desert Island Version)
- Slider (Lorenzo Saxophone Dub)
- Bad Feeling
This is the Kit 2021/22 Tour Dates
10/07 – CH – Lausanne, Festival de la Cité
11/07 – CH – Lausanne, Festival de la Cité
30/07 – LUX – Luxembourg, Congés
21/08 – Brecon Beacons, Green Man Festival
25/08 – GR – Athens, Summer Nostos Festival
27/08 – Cottingham, Cottingham Folk Festival
28/08 – Oxfordshire, Towersey Festival
29/08 – Cumbria, Solfest
04/09 – Kent, Smugglers Festival
05/09 – Nottingham, Arboretum Bandstand
08/09 – BE – Brussels, Nuits Botanique @ Botanique Rotonde
09/09 – FR – Paris, St Eustache Church
10/09 – FR – Le Havre, Le Tetris
11/09 – FR – Dunkerque, We Will Folk You @ Les 4 Ecluses
11/09 – FR – Dunkerque, We Will Folk You @ Les 4 Ecluses / Kids Show
12/09 – FR – Tourcoing, Lille Le Grand Mix / Evening Show
12/09 – FR – Tourcoing, Lille Le Grand Mix / Kids Show
14/09 – FR – Amiens, La Lune Des Pirates
15/09 – FR – Rennes, Jardin Moderne
17/09 – FR – Lorient, Hydrophone
23/09 – FR – Pau, La Centrifugeuse
24/09 – FR – Toulouse, Ellipse Festival
25/09 – FR – Bordeaux, Le Rocher de Palmer
30/09 – FR – Annecy, Le Brise Glace
01/10 – CH – Sion, Port Franc
02/10 – CH – Zurich, Bogen F
03/10 – FR – Lyon, L’Epicerie Moderne evening show
03/10 – FR – Lyon, L’Epicerie Moderne / kids Show
02/11 – Cardiff, The Globe
03/11 – Folkstone, Quarterhouse
04/11 – Brighton, Mutations Festival
05/11 – Guildford, Guildford Cathedral
06/11 – Reading, Saint Laurence Church
07/11 – Winchester, The Railway / 40th Anniversary / Evening Show
07/11 – Winchester, The Railway / 40th Anniversary / Matinee Show
09/11 – Cambridge, The Junction
10/11 – Norwich, Norwich Arts Centre
11/11 – Manchester, RNCM
12/11 – Dublin, Button Factory
13/11 – Chester, Live Rooms
14/11 – Lancaster, Lancaster Library
16/11 – Birmingham, Town Hall
17/11 – Edinburgh, Queens Hall
18/11 – Newcastle, Cluny
19/11 – York, Citadel
20/11 – Leicester, The Venue @ De Montfort University
21/11 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
10/12 – NL – Eindhoven, Naked Song Festival
2022
28/01 – NL – Groningen, Der AA Theater
30/01 – DK – Copenhagen, Hotel Cecil
31/01 – DK – Aarhus, Train
01/02 – DE – Hamburg, Nochtspeicher
02/02 – DE – Berlin, Frannz Club
03/02 – DE – Leipzig, UT Connewitz
05/02 – DE -Stuttgart,Kulturquartier
07/02 – NL – Amsterdam, Paradiso
08/02 – BE – Antwerp, De Roma
08/03 – London, Royal Albert Hall
19/06 – Cheshire, Delamere Forest
31/07 – Cambridge, Cambridge Folk Festival
Photo Credit: Ph. Lebruman