Hidden secrets spilled on Kathryn’s new album
A Kinross music venue is preparing to welcome an extraordinary guitarist.
Paul Rose and his band are returning to give another concert at the Green Hotel’s Backstage Bar on Friday, September 21.
The Friday night gig starts at 9pm and based on his last visit, the organisers are confident audience members will leave commenting that Paul is the best guitarist they’ve seen and heard.
Last time Paul played in these parts was eight years ago when Backstage had just opened. Ted McKenna was on drums with Alan Thomson on bass.
Born in Newcastle in 1966, Paul’s guitar style is primarily rock, but it touches on blues, country, jazz and folk, blended together into a style that is entirely his own.
The band has Mark Egan on bass, who has done sessions with Sting, Mark Knopfler, and Ricky Lee Jones and drummer Karl Latham, from the Blues Storm.
Karl did a spell with Johnny Winter and has just been in the orchestra pit on Broadway doing Hamilton, which is the most successful New York City show of all time.
Catch the Paul Rose Band for an exhilarating evening of guitar worship.
Tickets cost £15, available from www.mundellmusic.com An intriguing visual/musical show comes to Perth’s Joan Knight Studio next week when the award-winning singer, songwriter and musician, Kathryn Joseph performs her new album.
Kathryn enjoyed phenomenal success with her debut album, which won Scottish Album of the Year 2015. Named ‘Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled’, it caused a wave of admiration.
Now she’s about to present her second album, ‘From When I Wake The Want Is’ released by Rock Action Records on August 10 and to do this, she’s collaborated with acclaimed Glasgow-based theatre company, Cryptic.
Songs from the new album get shared live for the Saturday Night Thing at Perth Theatre on Monday 17, in the intimate space of the Joan Knight Studio.
From When I Wake The Want Is has been billed as ‘an intimate and raw portrait of Joseph’s secret world’ with the music, produced by Marcus Mackay and visualised by Czech body architect, Markéta Kratochvílová. She’s got James Johnson doing the set and lighting by Nich Smith, with direction by Josh Armstrong.
After performing in Perth, Joseph’s next tour stop is London.
“Within each of us, lies dormant passion and memories secreted away in the depths of our DNA,” she wrote of the themes explored in the new work.
“These ineffable secrecies inscribe our bones with intricate etchings never to be seen.”
The sense is that Joseph has got some hard autobiographical outpourings blistering to break the surface.
Of her show Kathryn, from Inverness, told the PA: “I wear this amazing get-up designed by Markéta Kratochvílová. It’s hard to describe, but it involves pink trouser suit and a strange ‘collar’ of yellow rope. It’s like armour around my neck, it makes me feel empowered, strong.
“For the concert in Perth I play the entire album, and it does feel strange to be doing it with such a visual element, normally I just get up and play a gig. This is gong to be different.
“Marc makes these incredible sounds, I call it ‘witch noise’. The sound of this album with its drums is harder, stronger than before.”
It was in the spring that Kathryn Joseph was last in Perth, doing a night with James Graham of The Twilight Sad. “I’m looking forward to being back,” she added. Paul Rose a must for guitar fans Kathryn Joseph