VENUE :: KT TUNSTALL :: THE SOLO TOUR with guests CHARLIE MARS & MIGGS

The Georgia Straight presents… KT TUNSTALL (THE SOLO TOUR + guests CHARLIE MARS + MIGGS Friday. May 6th VENUE Nightclub 881 Granville Street Doors @ 7:00pm Show @ 7:30pm Tickets :: $25.00 Available at All Ticketmaster Outlets + Zulu Records. KT TUNSTALL::. Multi-platinum, Scottish-born singer- songwriter, KT Tunstall returns to Vancouver for a solo performance on Friday, May 6th at Venue. Tunstall hadn’t stepped off the merry-go-round since scoring with her platinum 2006 debut album Eye To The Telescope (which spawned three hit singles, the Grammy-nominated “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree,” “Suddenly I See,” and “Other Side of the World”) through its Top 10 follow-up, 2007’s Drastic Fantastic (featuring the multi-week No. 1 Triple A airplay smash “Hold On”) and eventually 2010’s Tiger Suit. Prior to writing Tiger Suit, KT took an illuminating trip to Greenland as part of the Cape Farewell project, where she lived on a boat with a group of artists, writers, and musicians who were invited to create their own response to the harsh landscape and the specter of climate change. “After years of touring and being babied, it was humbling to go somewhere where life is hard,” she says. “I experienced one of my worst gigs ever in the town of Uummannaq. My confidence was so low, I felt like a jingle writer. I didn’t want to be on stage and I’ve never felt like that. I just wished for a simpler life and not to be in this weird creative rat race. I wanted to get off the boat and live there.” So she did get off the boat, metaphorically, taking time out to travel with her husband (and drummer) Luke Bullen. Over the course of a transformative three months, Tunstall went horseback riding with gauchos in Chile, explored the wild nature of the Galapagos Islands, walked Peru’s Inca Trail to the ruined city of Machu Picchu, visited the Barefoot College Of Tilonia in India, jammed with local musicians in the Rajasthani desert, and traveled the length of New Zealand in a vintage VW camper van, landing in Auckland just in time to participate in Neil Finn’s 7 Worlds Collide jamboree. “The whole trip was locking in to something more primal,” says Tunstall. “What I realised was I’m still feral. I’ve always felt a bit feral. As a kid I was always wanting to be outside in the bushes or in a tent. I always wanted movement and adventure.” But before the adventure could continue, she was persuaded to take a year off to write and reflect. “It was really important to digest my own reaction to this massive shift in my life. Everyone says ‘oh, you seem to handle success so well’. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve even really processed it. I don’t know if I will until I’m an old woman sitting looking back over it.” Artist/Artists MySpace or Webpage links: http://www.kttunstall.com/

Minimum Age:19 and over

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