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David Kitt performs 'Small Moments' live at Whelan's on Sat October 6th

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  • 25-09-2012 12:18pm
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    whelanslive
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    Whelanslive.com presents

    DAVID KITT performing his debut album Small Moments
    + special guest
    KATIE KIM
    Saturday 6th October
    Whelan's Of Wexford St
    Tickets €15 + booking fee available from www.wavtickets.ie or call the WAV Box Office [Lo-call 1890 200 078]

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOaqkTMquNA




    In 1999 with several record companies looking to sign him and mould him into
    a more commercial prospect, David Kitt insisted that this intimate collection of home
    recordings would be his first release. The first person to welcome this idea was
    legendary Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis who signed The Smiths, Arthur Russell,
    The Strokes, Pulp and Warpaint amongst many others. Kitt handed a CD-R of these
    recordings to Travis at the SXSW music conference in Austin, Texas and the next
    morning Kitt received a call to say that he shouldn’t change a note, the first release
    was done and dusted.

    Once released, the album received rave reviews throughout the British, Irish and
    European music press and won a legion of admirers including David Bowie, Graham
    Linehan, Arab Strap, tindersticks, The Magic Numbers and the great Bob Harris
    of 'old Grey Whistle Test' fame. While Kitt’s sophomore follow-up The Big Romance
    was his biggest-selling record, for many this debut has a rare intimacy combined with
    a bold sense of experimentation which marks it out as their clear favourite.
    “There’s an otherness at work here, an ability to subvert prettiness and a knack for
    bending a melody that announces a special talent…” Mojo
    “Imagine the Beta Band without the studied wackiness or Belle and Sebastian on
    downers…” I.D.
    “Kitt is an enormously promising talent…” Time Out
    Kitt revisited The Big Romance for a special 10th anniversary full-band show in
    Vicar Street in December of last year to rapturous reviews and is looking forward to
    bringing his more intimate debut to arts centre stages throughout the country.
    For this one-off tour David Kitt will be accompanied by his brother Robbie who
    memorably featured on the album aged just 10 at the time, but who is now an
    accomplished musician in his own right. In addition to performing Small Moments in
    its entirety, they will perform a second set of mainly new material, previewing tracks from what will be Kitt's 7th album.
    David said this about the tour; “Around the time of 'The Big Romance' 10th
    anniversary gig last year a lot of people expressed interest in hearing my first
    record 'Small Moments' in its entirety. I was surprised by the reaction The Big
    Romance gig in Vicar Street, and by how much I enjoyed performing the songs
    again. While The Big Romance really needs a big band to pull off its detailed
    arrangements, Small Moments lends itself to a sparser rendering. It felt like a good
    thing for myself and my brother Robbie to do at this point; we've developed a really
    good musical understanding over the last 5 years working on our Spilly Walker
    project, so the plan is to gig Small Moment at the weekends and work on finishing
    our debut album as Spilly Walker during the week."


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