Kat Flint
is a Scottish singer-songwriter born in Barbados and raised in Aberdeen. Her first album, Dirty Birds
was released in 2008.
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Biography
Kat Flint is the daughter of research scientists, born in Barbados but raised in the oil capital of Scotland, Aberdeen. From there she moved down to
Edinburgh where she joined the city's acoustic scene with her band Gingergreen, who were voted the city's favourite acoustic act, at the local Acoustic Idols Awards, in 2004.
[1] She also spent six months playing percussion with folk group Scuff, and was in the Edinburgh Sound Collective. Since then she has moved down to London which, she says, is conducive to song writing.
Of her lyrics, she says, "I write lyrics about junkyard prostitutes, life in the fearsome crowd and the fact that your lover is 72.8% water. I was told once that I'm pretty good on guitar 'for a girl'. I wasn't sure if that was a compliment. I am an active campaigner against teenage angst and histrionics in music. I quite like train journeys because they're one of the rare occasions when I can just sit and think."
Music
Gingergreen
Kat Flint's first serious musical project was as a member of Edinburgh acoustic group, Gingergreen, along with Robin Mogandorff and Andrew Thompson.
Solo Work
In 2006, Flint released
The Secret Boy's Club
EP, which included six songs. Her first single, "Go Faster Stripes", which utilises various household objects in its recording, was released in December 2007 on
Albino Recordings. In 2008, Kat followed up with her first full-length album,
Dirty Birds
. Many of the songs from the album - "Ohio", "Anticlimax" for example - were reworked versions of songs from
The Secret Boys Club
. The second single from the album, "Christopher, You Are a Soldier Now", was inspired by her brother's near-enlistment in the British armed forces. Both single and album have received critical acclaim from popular and mainstream critics, notably
Steve Lamacq of the
BBC, who has called Kat "a great singer-songwriter".
Discography
The Secret Boy's Club
(EP) (2006)
# Fearsome Crowd
# Ohio
# Headrush
# London Lullaby
# Anticlimax
# The Blinking
Go Faster Stripes
(Single) (2007)
#Go Faster Stripes
#Joseph
Christopher, You're a Soldier Now
(Single) (2008)
# Christopher, You're a Soldier Now
# Shadow Boxing
Dirty Birds
(2008)
# Go Faster Stripes
# Ohio
# Anticlimax
# Lazybones
# Christopher, You're a Soldier Now
# The Blinking
# Saddest Blue Dress
# Birthday
# Fearsome Crowd
# Shotgun Wedding
# Candyfloss Branches
# Dirty Birds
References
- City's music scene is alive and kicking