KT Tunstall - looping on the fly!?

Buckley

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Saw a secret KT Tunstall charity gig last night. Didn't it think it was gonna be my bag, but was invited by a very good friend who's the stage manager at the venue.

Just the girl herself, a drummer (standing up - quite hard to do apparently) and a loop pedal. Really sounded like she had backing singers but my mate assure me there was not backing tape and what I could hear above her voice, was in fact, well, her voice from a couple of seconds ago recorded and looped through the pedal. She tapped out a back beat on the body of her guitar, looped and used it as the drum track for a couple of songs as well. Perhaps the drummer got tired standing up and needed a rest, eh?

Anyone seen this sort of thing with live music? My pal tells me a few people do it, but rarely with aptitude I saw/heard last night.

Incidently, the chap running the sound desk for my mate was the bassist from The Divine Comedy. Woke up this morning with a nagging sense of loss, then realised I had neglected to offer him a lift home, thus missing the opportunity to ask him, had he declined, whether he would, in fact, be making that particular journey on The National Express.:lol:
 
I saw a guy on Jools Holland a few months ago using samplers and looping pedals.
He spent the first 20 seconds setting up some loops live (I didn't have a clue what he was doing at first !) and then used it as the basis for his track for 4 minutes. Very clever stuff.
 
Stu Hirst said:
I saw a guy on Jools Holland a few months ago using samplers and looping pedals.
He spent the first 20 seconds setting up some loops live (I didn't have a clue what he was doing at first !) and then used it as the basis for his track for 4 minutes. Very clever stuff.

Well, your country woman did it live in most of her 9 or 10 songs Stu. Very impressive.

She also had a pop at Noel Gallagher for slating her, saying he papped it when asked about it at a Scottish radio station and did a little impression of him "....no, no, she's alright KT, star.....our kid..... etc.":lol:
 
I got her album for Christmas and it's fast become one of my favourites :p . She really is so talented, she writes all her own stuff aswell.
 
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