This Is The Kit

LIVE: THIS IS THE KIT – 11/11/2021

Comparisons are odious but given that I went to two gigs in two days I think I can be forgiven for drawing them. On Wednesday night it was Self Esteem at Gorilla and on Thursday it was This is the Kit at RNCM. Both intelligent female-led music, but that’s where the comparisons end. RNCM is […]
I don’t trust people who say they like all types of music. That is a pretty, blanket statement. I like food but it doesn’t mean I like eating all food. There will inevitably be some music that I don’t want to listen to. However, I can see the merits of most music even if I […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: THIS IS THE KIT – OFF OFF ON

NEW ALBUM ‘MOONSHINE FREEZE’ DETAILS FROM THIS IS THE KIT ALONGSIDE ITS ROUGH TRADE SESSIONS VIDEO

Recent Rough Trade signings This Is The Kit will release their new album Moonshine Freeze on Friday 7th July 2017. This Is The Kit’s new album and Rough Trade debut, Moonshine Freeze, produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, M Ward, Perfume Genius), began in the immediate wake of its predecessor, Bashed Out, when days after coming off tour […]
This Is The Kit have just shared their video for “Cold and Got Colder,” a stand out track from Bashed Out, conceived and directed by This Is the Kit’s main mover and shaker Kate Stables. Kate says of the video in which she carries a canoe over land, Fitzcarraldo-style: “Often in life we’re struck by […]

THIS IS THE KIT SHARE ‘COLD AND GOT COLDER’ VIDEO

LIVE: THIS IS THE KIT – 03/06/2016

– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – What strikes me most about Kate Stables of This Is The Kit, is just how charismatic she is. Every person in The Deaf Institute here would love to be her friend. I want to be her friend. She effortlessly chats between songs. Tells jokes while tuning up. Bad ones, […]