Kettle of Kites launch their new sci-fi inspired album 'Arrows' at London's Victoria in Dalston. Opening the concert is London based musician and songwriter Jack Cheshire.
Kettle of Kites is an indie art rock band. It’s a soaring crescendo and then a simple folk melody. It’s a vast wide open space and then an intimate living room – a geometric maze to find your way through.
Their debut album Loan was formed through humble means – recorded in a dingy, sweaty Italian basement by Scottish frontman/songwriter Tom Stearn and then sent half way across the world to A Pocket Full Of Stones studio in Australia to be mixed. Embarking on the launch of their new sci-fi inspired studio album Arrows, the band’s somewhat dispersed members (Pietro Martinelli, bass – Genoa // Marco Giongrandi, guitar – Brussels // Riccardo Chiaberta, drums – London) combine their unique experience in their respective music scenes to sculpt new worlds, new images, new stories.
Their second album Arrows is inspired by the sci-fi world of the author Isaac Asimov – Sumptuous Fleet Foxes-esque sunsets, roaring Grizzly Bear reverbs and cyclic classical guitar lines, with an undercurrent of minimal electronic drums and synth reminiscent of Radiohead.
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Jack Cheshire is an English musical artist based in London.
'lyrically, melodically and sonically compelling' ★★★★ MOJO
'Spooky, pointillist, beautiful' The Sunday Times
'curious, idiosyncratic artful pop.
Psychedelic in a very English way...imbued with remarkable depth.' Clash
He has written and recorded four albums;
Allow it to Come On (2008)
Copenhagen (2011)
Long Mind Hotel (2013)
Black Light Theatre (2017)
Cheshire has shared stages with the likes of Songhoy Blues & Josh T Pearson as well as performing at Green Man Festival and the Kings Place.
In March 2014 he played a live session for Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Music radio show.
He is currently working on his fifth album.