KT Tunstall Diary

15th September, 2006

Hotlanta, Georgia - Friday September 15th

Ding Dong.
“hello?”
“oh hello, Tunstall’s the name. I used to write diary entries on this site and was wondering if it was still appropriate for me to do so due to my woeful lack of contact with my loving, loyal home-turf loons?”

Too right man!!!! How are you all? Happy as babies with bottles of glue i hope. (i have actually witnessed a baby with a bottle of glue, and it was incredibly happy.)

I’m in Atlanta, and should DEFinitely be asleep as i’m playing a tune on Cartoon Network at hideous o’ clock in the morning, but the night has yet to draw to a close. Should be fun playing for some kiddies, it’s always so lovely seeing them go all mental.

So my month off was BLISS, and as incredible as Vietnam was, it didn’t quite beat the ’77 VW Camper that Lucky & i drove round northern england for a week. Our mates met us at Lindesfarne (stunning) and questioned our sanity at the fact we rented a bus to sleep on for our holiday…but it was magic. I could have carried on for a year and a day.

Everyone is bouncy & blushing back on tour, and we’ve already had some cracking gigs. Kenny is on particularly hilarious form and is going proper bananas on his trumpet at the moment, to the point where we’re getting a little worried about his cheeks.

The boys have gone ahead to have a day off in New Orleans (soooooo jealous) and i’ll join them tomorrow. Can’t wait to see it. I wont have long, but our gig’s in the french quarter so at least i’ll get to eat a craw-daddy-creole-sandwich yip yip!! Pass us that accordion!

Made video number THREE for Suddenly I See when i was in NYC; the circus one was deemed a little depressing (i mean, we did go to Bucharest…it’s no Las Vegas) but my trapezing efforts will be on the deluxe thingy album in the US, so not totally wasted. The new one involved a green screen, a green treadmill, a green ramp, you get the idea, and then all sorts of amazing post-production doo-hickery shall occur. And never fear, there’s a dog. Called Hokey. Doesn’t parachute though. I’m most curious myself. I do know that at one point i’ll be like the fifty foot woman walking past skyscrapers. The irony.

We started recording album 2 at Rockfield out in Wales, but to be honest it just didn’t suit me – too many options and too much space. I still need it low-key and wee. We’d done some demos in a great little 70’s studio in London and found ourselves trying to emulate the wicked vibe we had going, so we thought arse to big studio, lets do it in little smelly studio! So i’m now really excited about making an album in London. That city vibe must make it’s way under the door. (At this point i would like to say, if dear reader you are a writer for a newspaper or otherwise and wish to pilfer any of this for print, can you pleeease make clear that it is indeed from my web-diary and not an interview?! Much appreciated.)

I have an absolutely top class celebrity story for you. On the same day, i get two voice messages. One is from Jools Holland saying “ah hullo, jools here, i was JUST talking about you to Brian Eno and it reminded me i needed to call you…” YOU CAN’T LEAVE IT LIKE THAT HOLLAND! A flippant Eno reference with no information?!! Then the next message is from a friend who has a friend and she says “i was just talking to my friend and she says you MUST meet Brian Eno as they’re going to dinner on friday and she thinks you should come.” So, by some weird alligning of planets, i find myself eating Lebanese food, listening to magical tales told by the man sitting next to me who INVENTED WEE BASTARD!!! Amazing. What a fascinating, funny, charismatic man he is too. And he said one of the highlights of his career was playing a cameo bishop on Father Ted. Time to get that box set out and have a laugh.

The reason Jools Hooland got in touch is because i’ve since recorded a tune for his album of country covers by various bods – Eno included – and i decided to do ‘Darkness On The Face Of The Earth’ from Willie Nelson’s amazing Teatro album. Two drum kits and everything, come oooon!!

Shit shit have to go to bed or my eyes will scare the children.
I promise to be a more attentive pop star. Profuse apologies.
Love KT xx

Posted by KT on the 15th September, 2006

KT Tunstall Diary

15th September, 2006

Hotlanta, Georgia - Friday September 15th

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