KT Tunstall performed as part of Conan O’Brien’s Summer Concert series on Monday night (July 25) at Stage 16 Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California. Watch the Scottish singer songwriter performing ‘Madame Trudeaux’ below. Watch her performances of ‘Other Side’ and ‘Uummannaq’, and check out pictures from the ‘Conan’ appearance at TeamCoco.com.
KT Tunstall recently did a Yahoo! Music Maximum Performance live set, which included ‘Fade Like A Shadow’, ‘Glamour Puss’ and ‘(Still A) Weirdo’ performances. Sitting down for an interview, KT talked about working with Linda Perry on her new album ‘Tiger Suit’ and being excited to see girls “completely take over” the industry. Watch it below.
Spinner recently caught up with KT Tunstall at Manhattan’s Standard Hotel to discuss her new album ‘Tiger Suit’ and its inspiration. In the exclusive video interview, the Scottish singer-songwriter explains the album title, its relation to her songs and Linda Perry’s influence on the recording. “I kind of had no idea how it was going to play out writing with her,” Tunstall said of Perry. “I walked in her studio and there was just this huge print of Led Zeppelin as soon as I walked in and I was like, ‘We’re gonna be okay. It’s gonna be good.’ We hit it off like a house on fire.” Watch the interview below.
KT Tunstall spoke with the Edinburgh Evening News about how she’s not resting on her laurels despite a career that has seen her sell 4 million albums and earning a Brit Award for Best British Solo Artist and an Ivor Novello Best Song gong. “I am and I always will be, but I was aware that my music wasn’t turning me on anymore and I have high standards,” Tunstall explained. “The interesting thing about being a musician and touring is that you get to see some incredible gigs while you’re away. Every time you see a good band at a festival, your bar goes up.” Read more.
KT Tunstall has developed a new affinity for electronica that resulted in musical style on her just released album ‘Tiger Suit’ she calls nature techno. “Electronics had been in my head for a long while but I never had the cojones to use them,” the Scottish singer songwriter told Daily Star. “I had a very deep attachment to the soundtracks of ‘Chariots Of Fire’ and ‘Blade Runner’, which is, of course, Vangelis. So I hunted down the Yamaha CS80, the keyboard he used, and that’s what I used most – it’s like playing a sofa bed.”
KT Tunstall spoke with M Is For Music in a Q&A, where the Scottish singer songwriter talked about her just released new album ‘Tiger Suit’ and the impact Lady Gaga is having on the music charts right now. “Lady Gaga is one of those artists I am really glad exists – the world needs her,” Tunstall said. “She has a great voice, and anyone with that much creative vision deserves a place at the high table of pop. It’s impressive that someone in this crazy, saturated day and age can come in and wipe the floor with everyone else like that. Power to her.”
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KT Tunstall released her latest album ‘Tiger Suit’ earlier this week. The Scottish singer/songwriter tried some different things on the new album, all the while remaining true to her roots. Fox All Access producer Jeff Axelrod caught up with her backstage before a performance at Hollywood’s Hotel Cafe to talk about the new album, including the unusual story behind its title.
“The idea for the album came from a recurring dream I had since I was a kid,” Tunstall said. “I walk out into my garden or into somewhere really familiar, and there’s a tiger lying in the grass or in the road, and I pet it. Then I go inside and it’s only when I look out the window afterward I’m like, ‘Oh my God, he could have killed me. I’m crazy, what was I doing?’ It sort of as an adult reminds me of how I approach my performances quite a lot of the time where I won’t really think about what I’m doing until afterward.”
Watch the interview via YouTube below.
KT Tunstall visited NPR’s World Cafe while promoting her just released album ‘Tiger Suit’, performing four songs during the studio session and talking with guest host Michaela Majoun. Listen to the Scottish singer songwriter perform ‘Madame Trudeaux’, ‘Black Horse And The Cherry Tree’, ‘Still A Weirdo’ and ‘Fade Like A Shadow’, and web extra performances of ‘Glamour Puss’ and ‘Other Side Of The World’ at NPR.org.
KT Tunstall is no fan of reality singing competitions, which the Scottish singer songwriter says is acting as a barrier to real artists getting record deals. She told the Daily Mail:
I hate what Simon Cowell has done to the music industry because he’s clogged it up with all these people and it’s stopping real artists getting deals. ‘The X Factor’ isn’t about music, it’s about entertainment, and in that regard it’s remarkable, because it brings families together in front of the television. Personally, I’d rather have stayed on the dole than audition for a show like that, but I would perform on it because I want millions of people to hear my music. It’s something I have thought long and hard about.
Check out the rest of the Q&A here.
KT Tunstall talked with ITN about how she got to write a song for the soundtrack to new British movie ‘The Kid’. “Nick Moran, the director, had got in touch via a friend and asked if I would be interested in writing a song for this movie,” the singer-songwriter said. “So I was invited to go along and see an early screening of it, and it absolutely blew me away. It’s such a moving, brilliantly acted, beautifully scripted film.” Watch the comments via DailyMotion below.