A varying aray of lovely musos- sometimes includin:-
Tim Bates,
Chaz Webb,
Nick Mclean,
Ivy Ireland,
Paddy Devine...
Recording features:- Bill Chambers, Chris Haigh, BJ Barker, Paddy Divine, Ivy Ireland and Robert Susz on harmonica..
Influences
Gillian Welch, Nick Drake, the lovely Ani DiFranco, Kelly Joe Phelps, Dolly Parton, Paddy Devine, Mojo juju, Ivy, Bill Chambers, Otis Spann, Boni Raitt, Jacob Willow, Oskar Cicada, Isobell Sage, trees, Rodriguez, Melanie, Paul Kelly, The Waifs, Kev Carmody, Mia Dyson.....mirrabelle august ...the list is endless really...
My EP is finally being released across Australia this week!! and my tour starts this week as well ... please see dates in gigs section. It's all on now, no sleep for the wicked..
also, i have a facebook page is you'd like to have a squiz http://www.facebook.com/people/Kell_Stoner/549112523
NEWS
APRIL
My debut EP is now available from this site...see button below and will also be in stores across Australia from mid MAY - if its not there and you would like it to be - just order it through Vitamin Records! Thanks a heap....x k
At last i’ve found a distribution home for my CD at the lovely Australian label Vitamin Records - so my CD is being released across Australia in May - and will be available at a store near you! How exciting!! I’ll also be doing a whole string of launch shows which will be popping up on my gigs list over the next two weeks..all systems go now. My debut EP will also be available from this site shortly, from my myspace (see links) and also from Itunes from MAY!
MARCH
My website is finally up and running...check it out to the right over there..let me know what you think!
JANUARY
Great news....two of my songs ‘Lull me to spleep’ and ‘Long long
road’ will be screened on telly as part of the Australian of the Year Awards 25th January on Channel 9 (WIN) - 8.30pm (NSW time). They will be played as background to the feature on my little brother, Casey Stoner, who is up for a nomination for Young Australian of the Year - he’s a talented fellow... so i’ll be staying tuned to see how he goes....
EP Very soon!! AVAILABLE - my debut self titled EP (featuring songs played here plus more) is finally at the printers and ready so soon...EP will be released in march and very
very soon i'll be announcing a bunch of little tours and some great suport slots to help launch my EP....xx k
BIO - APRIL 2008
Kell Stoner’s debut self-titled EP will be available in stores across Australia from mid-May 2008 through Vitamin Records.
To celebrate the launch of her long awaited recording debut Kell Stoner and her little band of misfits will be touring up and down the East Coast of Australia throughout May, June and July 2008. (please see website and myspace for dates as they lock in!)
Produced and recorded by country and roots stalwarts Bill Chambers & Jeff MCormack, her debut brings together a love of blues, alt. country and soul laden lyrics and melodies… polished, but still raw enough to have feeling and guts - it's got heart!
Kell approached Bill at one of his gigs and asked if he’d be interested in producing her debut recording, he said he’d take a listen, and Kell handed over her demo. Bill rang the very next morning. ‘Kell’s influenced by the world’s great singer/songwriters,’ says Bill of her music. ‘But she still sounds uniquely like herself. Very cool music.'
Two original songs from the debut have just featured on the nationally televised Australian of the Year Awards, and the follow up documentary, where her little bro, Casey Stoner, picked up young Australian of the year. Selected tracks have also been released early to several radio stations which have received them warmly and given them many a spin including; Triple j, Coast FM (Central Coast) and ABC 1233 Newcastle and ABC radio state-wide.
Kell has just wound up the year with a bunch of shows with Jez Mead and support shows for the Lost Dogs (the Chambers clan). Playing acoustic and electric guitars, stompbox and harmonica, Kell will be accompanied by a small band of misfits adding skins, electric blues, swampy lap steel and sweet acoustics to everything from stomping blues grooves to watery folk ballads that ache for the sea. Over the past few years Kell has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with the likes of Mia Dyson, the Stiff Gins, Karma County, Ember Swift, David Bridie, Liz Stringer, The Beautiful Girls, Jez Mead, iOTA, Bill Chambers, The Lost Dogs (featuring Bill Chambers, Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson) and has played heaps of festivals and venues up and down the East Coast of Australia.
Kell also organises music and community events, takes photos and writes..lots...
...below are photos from a solo trip around India in 2005.....
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hey kel. wow, from a lycra point of view i can't congratulate u enough on finally getting ur music out in the open;) i am ergo b bag & i think u could do with a bit more keyboards;) good luck
hey kell. great to bump into you again at S3. stuff sounding great and awesome to hear you've got distribution sorted out. look forward to catching a gig of yours soon so let me know when you're in sydney. cheers ben@happenstance
When was that gig happening that Jane is organising? I'm heading up to your part of the world (kind of) on May 4th for a gig at the Troubadour in Brisbane.
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Hey Kell, cool tunes...thanks for finding us. Welcome to the Family! We are actually up in Newcastle this Friday night at the Wickham Park Hotel - come say g'day if you can! All the best...love from the Fam :)
G'day Kell, thanks for finding me. I usually ignore unsolicited friend requests, but I checked our mutual friends and once I saw the calibre of artisit you enjoy (particularly The Fumes and Jeff Lang), I just could not say no.
Your songs sound good, why don't you have any gigs up on your page??
