You can't really tell what's influenced you, you can only tell what you like...some of the things we like are: Argyll; Cathal Coughlan; The Handsome Family; mountains; the sea; Robert Louis Stevenson; selkie stories; Remedios Varo; Arthur H; coffee; our ancestors; existential crime novels featuring angst-ridden middle-aged detectives; the hyphen; Tom Waits, Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Billy MacKenzie; Frida Kahlo; Nick Cave; Japanese singing twins The Peanuts; 'The London Jungle Book' by Bhajju Shyam; Warsaw Village Band; Beethoven piano sonatas; Jacques Brel; Leonard Cohen; Souad Massi; prime numbers; Georges Brassens; libraries.
Sounds Like
An asthmatic shepherdess (breathy but earthy) singing Brel songs with a smouldering band who have somehow wandered from a red velvet night-club into a desolate glen.
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"...festival highlight...gothic folk meets Jacques Brel... during more than one moment I found myself mouthing a silent 'wow'... a spine tingingly lush vocalist... dark, delicious stuff." -thehearingaid.blogspot.com reviewing the 2008 Moseley Folk Festival - read the full review here
Polly and Andy started Kinkajou as a duo and went on to release a 6-track mini-album ‘Candlelight & Scars’ on their own Happy Accident label. The expanded band’s first full album ‘Seeping Beauty’ was released in 2005 (also on Happy Accident). You can buy these CDs online and/or order individual tracks as downloads at CD Baby.
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After a spell in the wilderness, we’ve been back in the studio recording our new album and hope to release it - at last - next year.
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We’ve played regular gigs around London, including dates at the 12-Bar Club, the Borderline, the Troubadour, Blackheath Halls and a number of local festivals; we’ve also played at the Canterbury Festival, Moseley Folk Festival and the Jersey World Music Festival; we've played folk gigs and antifolk gigs; and we’ve played a session for Tom Robinson’s radio show on BBC 6 as well as appearing in his 'Fresh on the Net' festival at the Riverside Studios.
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Kinkajou the animal is found in South and Central America. It's a rainforest mammal related to the raccoon, with a prehensile tail and a deceptively sweet appearance. The kinkajou is sometimes kept as a pet, and is often called the ‘honey bear’ because of its sweet tooth. (This sweet tooth also gives the animal a liking for alcohol: and when intoxicated it has been known to go berserk.) In general a kinkajou will be playful if treated gently, but if treated roughly it may emit a scream and attack with teeth and claws.
Kinkajou the band is found in South London (though all members came there from elsewhere). We too are mammals, though sadly lacking prehensile tails; we too are deceptively sweet in appearance - but lock up the liquor and be sure to treat us kind…
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hi Polly, j'aime les messages personnalisés ils me donnent le sentiment que quelqu'un quelque part dans les méandres obscures du réseau des réseaux quelqu'un est là et écoute et vibre merci Polly merci
depuis mon adolescence, assez punk je contre tout, naturellement. On me dit de faire rouge, je noircis. On dit joues rock, je fais electro. Techtonic is fun? Alors je te dis accords jazz ou rien...
tout ça pour toi en fait, et par tes oreilles que cela atteigne ton esprit, ton coeur...
Si j'y parviens? C'est à toi de dire.
"le derrière de Barbara", sur ma page. Comment dire... intimiste, intérieur, inspiré aussi je crois... par son derrière, je veux dire, bien sûr !
Merci de ton post en retour si tu en as le temps, je lirai.
depuis mon adolescence, assez punk je contre tout, naturellement. On me dit de faire rouge, je noircis. On dit joues rock, je fais electro. Techtonic is fun? Alors je te dis accords jazz ou rien...
tout ça pour toi en fait, et par tes oreilles que cela atteigne ton esprit, ton coeur...
Si j'y parviens? C'est à toi de dire.
"le derrière de Barbara", sur ma page. Comment dire... intimiste, intérieur, inspiré aussi je crois... par son derrière, je veux dire, bien sûr !
Merci de ton post en retour si tu en as le temps, je lirai.
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show returns to the airwaves on Resonance 104.4 FM this Saturday 5th September between noon and 1.30pm. Today's broadcast is in conjunction with PESTIVAL * With contributions from the Mosquito expert Dr. James Logan, an essay from the author Tim Burrows (on the subject of insects in rock and pop), plus live music from the London based alt/art duo Plug, who will debut new insect related material especially written for Hello GoodBye.
* PESTIVAL is a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Pestival 2009 runs from 3rd-6th September @ The Southbank Centre and is jam-packed with insect-inspired talks and debates, as well as comedy, music, walks, workshops, installations and experiments. For further information, please visit: http://pestival.org
Aww... thanks so much for the kind words, Polly! We miss you two already! I will let you know when we'll be heading back... not sure of our plans just yet. It was so great seeing you both again... thanks again for the covers (as in blankets, sheets, roof over over heads!) and conversation! :)
A special DVD set of the February shows is now available to pre-order at the wire-sound shop
This strictly limited edition 2 disc, region free, PAL format DVD set will be shipped in June.
The ‘Real Life + Thereafter’ DVD contains the entire concert filmed at Manchester Academy …
PLUS … Extra features include ‘Feed The Enemy’ filmed at the rehearsals, an alternate take of ‘A Song From Under The Floorboards’ and exclusive images from the period …
PLUS … On the second CD disc, you get an audio recording straight from the desk of 11 songs from the show at The Forum, London …
PLUS … In the package, you get a free tour T-Shirt in any size you like ranging from Super Small to Mighty XL and all stops in between.
Every time that we listen & write music... play an instrument... dance... act in a play... or work in some audio/image/video engineering process... something is healing inside...
When we share it with friends... something is healing all over...
cada vez que escuchamos o escribimos musica... tocamos un instrumento... bailamos... o trabajamos en procesos de ingenieria de audio/imagen/video.... algo se sana por dentro...
Cuando lo compartimos con amigos... algo se sana en todas partes...
El Amor puede conducir... de manera simple... todo...
We're about to record a new EP but can't decide which songs to put on it. To avoid any more 'heated debates' we've decided to let the good people of the internet decide.
If you've got a spare few minutes, please head over to http://www.naomihateshumans.com - have a listen to the songs and rate them. We promise to stand by the opinions of the interweb. Even if you are wrong.
Thanks Polly! We may be back over that way sooner than expected. Don't tell Mulligan yet though. I don't want to dissapoint the little guy. How are you??
Dear Kinkajou Thank you for your kind message about our gig at the Borderline last Thursday glad you enjoyed it and thank you for making us part of your inner sanctum here on Myspace.. xxx SOIF
