Teaming up with Miles Williams and Steve Wilkinson, acclaimed singer Kymberley Kennedy has put out her latest EP Pacify. Tomatrax caught up with Kymberley and her band to ask a few questions.
Miles: An unfortunately generic story of wanting to play an electric guitar when I was young because it looked cool so I asked for a guitar for my Birthday avoiding the common misconception that playing acoustic first is best. It was on the same Birthday that my uncle bought me a Jimi Hendrix album and I thought... yeah... I want some of that.
Steve: I 'apparently' used to spend hours sat by the record player listening to my mum's records as a child, then would always be singing around the house, which prompted my mum to arrange for piano lessons for me when I was 7 years old - and it developed from there.
Miles: Awful flashbacks to two chord songs with love sick lyrics from a 14 year old.
Steve: I remember first writing raps and rimes over hip hop beats with a friend of mine in the early 90s, and we used to perform them to his family in their living room on a Saturday night. From there I then put a few chords together on the piano and wrote a song with a melody, but when I presented it to him, it wasn't cool enough for him - so I confined those numbers to my bedroom at the time for my ears only to save some street cred J
Miles: It's not something that crosses my mind personally... we just make what sounds good to us.
Miles: I get a lot of comments after gigs saying what my guitar lines remind them of... these two bands are seldom mentioned but mentioned a lot when talking about the band overall. I think it's hugely complimentary.
Miles: I'm hilarious.
Miles: That would just be everything from Miles Davis to Hendrix to the massive obsession I have at the moment of the XX
Steve: I'm a huge fan of Michael Jackson and you can't not love, Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai, Nile Rodgers with a bit of Genesis thrown in for good measure.
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