King Creosote and special guests
Sat, 26 Apr
|St George's Church
Melting Vinyl presents Kenny Anderson’s DIY pop alter-ego King Creosote. Whether playing guitar, banjo, accordion, modular synths or wine glass drones. The common threads are KC’s singular voice, and his roguish, roving, ever-evolving, gorgeous songs in the key of Fife.
Time & Location
26 Apr 2025, 19:00
St George's Church, St George's Rd, Kemptown, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 1ED, UK
About the event
Since the mid-late 1990s, King Creosote has released over 100 records (at a relatively conservative guess), and his songs have been covered and performed by artists including Simple Minds and Patti Smith.
Many of his LPs, EPs and CDRs were self-released via Anderson’s homegrown Fife imprint, Fence-amid major label dalliances (2005’s KC Rules OK and 2007’s Bombshell on Warners), and a long-standing kinship with Domino Records, whose KC dispatches include Kenny and Beth’s Musakal Boat Rides (2003), the Mercury Prize-shortlisted Jon Hopkins union Diamond Mine (2011), and 2014’s From Scotland With Love, which soundtracked the award-winning film of the same name.
Anderson’s latest King Creosote outing is I, Des, an album that characteristically digs deep into his previous work – revisiting and recycling lyrics, home-made tapes, half-spun songs – and continues his quest to navigate mortality, ardour, stormy waters, the moon in the sky, and the East Neuk of Fife.