Kate Stables

This Is The Kit’s Kate Stables discusses the “peaks and troughs” of writing her seventh studio album, how collaborations can be liberating, and her excitement for performing a tribute to her idol, Joni Mitchell, plus her upcoming UK live dates, including an appearance at Moseley Folk and Arts Festival.

This is the Kit’s first live album, Live At The Minack Theatre, is available now on all DSPs. Taken from that concert, watch their stunning live performance of ‘Hotter Colder’, also our Song of the Day.

Paris-based bandleader Kate Stables of This is the Kit is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest. We learn of her love for tambourines and Alan Bennett, of where their band name maybe comes from…and more.

On their latest single ‘Was Magician’, Kate Stables of This is the Kit takes inspiration from one of the literary greats of the 20th century – Ursula Le Guin.

This is the Kit recently performed the New Aldelphi Club, Hull’s most famous underground music club’s. Watch this great video feature.

With one foot in Bristol and the other in Japan, UK folk artist Rachael Dadd isn’t one to settle in any place for too long, and her latest release Bite the Mountain certainly reflects this love of people and travel. Released on Broken Sound Records this third LP from the songstress comprises a rich tapestry of songs composed in various locations across Japan. “Making my album in Japan was important”, …

Kate Stables is the staple of folk project This is the Kit, who, alongside long-time collaborator Jesse D. Vernon, perform ordinarily as a two-piece splitting their time between Bristol and Paris. Initially noticed in 2006 thanks to a Folk Off compilation featuring other nu-weird-folksters Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan, This is the Kit were hailed as a refreshing British folk act; with BBC Radio’s Huw Stephens referring to Kate as …