SIGN UP FOR THE MAILING LIST AND RECEIVE A FREE ALBUM TRACK RIGHT HERE! "Inspired....jangles with all the rainy loveliness of Belle and Sebastian" -UNCUT magazine"A great new songwriting talent from Scotland" - BOB HARRIS, BBC“ Beautifully melancholic" – PRESS ASSOCIATION"A heady combination of guitar riffs and pop melody has seen Ally Kerr become the next big thing on the British music scene" - TIME OUT"Kerr's songs meld the saccharin side of Belle and Sebastian with the kind of melancholy that Paul Simon's cat must feel at the end of a day's recording after milk and biscuits. They are beautifully written and wistful" - SUNDAY HERALD
The new album OFF THE RADAR is available to BUY on CD with beautiful artwork right here. This link takes you to the official Ally Kerr web shop where the album can be bought and delivered anywhere in the world at a very reasonable price and with most credit cards / paypal. SIGNED / PERSONALISED copies can also be purchased there for a LIMITED PERIOD OF TIME.
The album is also now available at all download stores (iTunes etc) and all good record shops via Shellshock distribution.
Promo animation below for AMORINO - taken from the new album OFF THE RADAR.
Promo video below for There's A World - taken from the new album OFF THE RADAR.
'COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDER' live in Singapore, 2009.
Ringtones / Wallpaper for sale. If there's one not listed below that you'd like, then send a myspace message or email music(at)allykerr.com to request it.
ALLY KERR WITH BAND LIVE IN JAPAN VIDEO below. Features the wonderful adopted Japanese band who played half of Ally's set in Tokyo, April 08. This song is called 'The Truth That I Have Earned' and is from the new album 'Off The Radar'.
You can watch a live video of the COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDER b-side DISLOCATION below.
Kerr's new album - OFF THE RADAR - was released on Much Obliged Records and in Japan on the Ultra-Vybe label. The new album has been receiving very good reviews, some of which can be found HERE
Three singles have been released - "Could Have Been A Contender", "There's A World" and "Amorino" which was described as being "like Simon and Garfunkel's finest and confirms him as one of our best secrets" (Daily Record - Scotland's biggest selling newspaper) and “Gentle Scottish folk with a pop tinge. If Stuart from Belle & Sebastian did a solo gig…” - Washington Post
One of Scotland’s fastest-rising songwriters continues to flourish as an independent artist, picking up fans across the world. Ally Kerr’s success initially began in Japan following the release of his critically-acclaimed debut album Calling Out To You, much of which was written as Ally travelled between the East Coast of the USA and the West Coast of Scotland. It was self-funded and recorded on a shoestring budget back home in Scotland and was first released on tiny Japanese label Quince Records. Its inclusion in a major Japanese music magazine’s list of “Top 20 Albums Ever To Come Out Of Scotland”, was testament to the strength of the songs and the album happily sat alongside the seminal works of Orange Juice and Belle and Sebastian.
During his first-ever-headlining tour of Japan, Kerr received word that one of his songs was to feature as the theme tune to a major new Japanese animated TV series Mushishi, based on a hugely popular comic book. The Sore Feet Song was released in Japan as a CD single and his fanbase in far-flung corners of the world is continually growing as a result of this exposure. New converts in the USA, South America and Europe have been eager to find out more. The series has been broadcast in several countries and was released on DVD in North America last year. A truly international artist, Kerr was also featured in the China Daily (the country’s biggest English newspaper) and has many fans across this country and also other parts of Asia. Second album - Off The Radar - was licensed to Universal Records in the Philippines in late 2008. The singer/songwriter’s international profile rose another notch after he was selected to play at the North by North-East music festival – Canada’s biggest and most important music festival.
The home team finally took notice and Calling Out To You received a full release on Neon Tetra Records in 2005. Although echoes of Belle & Sebastian, Big Star, Kings Of Convenience, Simon and Garfunkel and many other artists resonate, Kerr’s style is singularly distinctive. One of Scotland’s broadsheet newspapers - Scotland on Sunday - recognised him as “one of the most interesting and creative musicians working in the country right now” in its rundown of the “Hottest New Scottish Talent”. Melodious, heartfelt, beautiful, melancholic, and quirky are adjectives regularly used to describe his music. The release of the debut album followed the critical success of his limited edition debut EP, Midst of the Storm, which was released on 7-inch white vinyl by cult Spanish label Elefant Records (Lambchop, Camera Obscura) and garnered airplay around the world. Kerr continues to receive regular press and radio support from European DJs and BBC Radio 1’s John Peel was one such DJ who championed Kerr’s first ever recording on his shows.
Self-effacing, yet single-minded and determined, Kerr released his second album Off The Radar on Much Obliged Records and in Japan on the Ultra-Vybe label. This album has received glowing reviews, international airplay and continued ‘word of mouth’ support across the internet with many agreeing that this new album is a real step-up from the much-lauded debut. As the record continues to filter out further and wider, interest in Kerr continues to grow. Touring in Europe and Asia will continue while putting the final touches to home demos that will eventually be realised in the studio. These songs will comprise the third, as yet untitled album, which Kerr feels is his strongest work to date.
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Find all releases on ITUNES WORLDWIDE (and all major download sites) Click on the iTunes logo to go directly to BUY the music. ..
You can also BUY the debut CD with beautiful artwork (and signed / personalised for a limited time!) right here
The highly limited edition CD singles - Could Have Been A Contender / Amorino - (with exclusive b-sides) can be PURCHASEDright here
You can meet Ally by watching this introductory video.
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New MUGS available to BUY right here. Here's a peek at one of the two designs based on the Amorino animation.
MyNiceSpace.com hello ally-san :-) happy holidays! May the joy of the holidays last all the year through i hope we can meet you next year, too! take good care!
2's UP, it's ma fuckin birthday... Free Limited Edition Print (1/50) and an 80min mix cd (1/150) to the earliest arrivals...
NOTE THAT WE ARE STARTING AT 9 THIS MONTH, TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE TREMOLO BEER GUT (all the way from Denmark) AND BIG NED (all the way from the black lodge).
I arranged The Starlets show at Getafe but Eva and me can..t be there becouse we will go to avila to a 'fall in love-weekend'. What a pity.... perhaps another time we will have the opportunity to see them.
Hi Ally, this is the last song of our pop festival. Is a cover from a group called 'Family' and all 4 groups are playing together. Enjoy. It was in Getafe.
Well I do what I can to spread the love! I just downloaded a bunch of your tracks from itunes so rest assured that you have as least one big fan down-under ... in Australia I mean ... I do know a few more though. If you ever make it out here, please come to Sydney and I'll be sure to come see you play. much adoration. x
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