2012 5/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat @birdeatsbaby, @maryepworth, #popuppeople and More Besides

1) Birdeatsbaby – Incitatus Brighton based dark cabaret outfit Birdeatsbaby have just released this BRILLIANT new video, and like the last video for “Feast Of Hammers” it’s deliciously spooky. And makes me scared of bands… “Feast Of Hammers” – the album – is released on February 20th and I’m supporting them at their London launch...

“Little Battles” vBlog Episode 1 Online Now! Brighton, Birdeatsbaby, BBC 6 Music and Singing To Seabirds

The first in my brand new video blog series to celebrate my new album coming out on April 9th, woohoo! The album launch extravaganza will be at the Half Moon in Herne Hill, London SE24 on Wednesday 11th April with tickets available very soon. “In This Boat” will be released on February 14th as digital...

2012 4/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat Grace Petrie, Brighton and Musical Broccoli

Click to see the rest of this week’s photos 1) Grace Petrie A wonderfully inspiring songwriter and performer I met at last weekend’s Midwinter Picnic 4. She makes music that really gets you in the gut, and her rousing lyrics are still echoing around my head a week on. I should have heard of her...

2012 3/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat Gil Scott Heron, Martin Luther King & Handcrafted Chocolate

Click to see the rest of this week’s photos 1) “The Last Holiday : A Memoir” by Gil Scott Heron I’m so thankful to a friend for introducing me to the wonderful work of Gil Scott Heron a number of years before he sadly died, and though I’ve only just started reading this newly published...

“Slow Puncture” On BBC Introducing – Listen Again + Tickets For Feb Shows With @hiband & @birdeatsbaby

Get the song here on a pay-what-you-can basis… I was very excited and pleased to receive an email from the Tom Robinson show last week informing me that “Slow Puncture” would be played on the show early on Monday morning (today), as a result of being selected from songs uploaded to the BBC Introducing Uploader....

2012 2/52 – Five Things I Liked This Week – Feat Chris T-T, Arctic Hooping & Bike Doctor

Click to see the rest of this week’s photos 1) Chris T-T – “Binker” – the video! I don’t know how I missed this on Twitter last week but I only just stumbled across this gorgeous film. Chris’ 2011 Edinburgh Festival show “Disobedience: Chris T-T Sings A.A. Milne” was one of the musical highlights of...

Category: Press

Drunken Werewolf Interviews She Makes War

Posted 27 Sep 2011 in Interviews,Music,Press,She Makes War
“Laura Kidd is inspirational. That much is clear after only ten minutes of internet browsing. She and her project She Makes War dominate social networking sites, music blogs and Google, thanks in no small part to 2010’s debut Disarm. Originally self-released, this summer the album’s reissue has rightfully caught the...

“Disarm” Reviewed at Subba Cultcha

Posted 22 Sep 2011 in Music,Press,She Makes War
“Kidd it seems is very clearly a fan of the Seattle sound and unashamedly uses its influence in her music. This isn’t so much of a bad thing as she has created more of a stripped back sound and has an amazing vocal that quivers throughout. I can’t help but...

ITWAK Featured on the Cover Me Blog

Posted 20 Sep 2011 in Music,Press,She Makes War
I Think We’re Alone Now by She Makes War “The combination of guitar lines and drum programming makes this Tommy James and the Shondells cover one to remember. Best of all: It reclaims the song from Tiffany, whose 1987 hit version sullied the tune for a generation.” Read the full...

Lovely Fan, Lovely Review of “Disarm”

Posted 16 Aug 2011 in Music,News,Press,She Makes War
Big thanks to Ian Sadler for his kind words! “her vocal range and multi-instrumental ability endows her with a genius of delivery and versatility that allows for “thirteen tales of love, loss, crap mates, betrayal, homicide and genocide” that many artists and bands would be hard pushed to achieve in...

Fifty Words On Broken Harmonium

Posted 15 Aug 2011 in Press,She Makes War
“…I am a newcomer to her particular and quite diverse party but it seems, newcomers are welcome. Hard to pin down musically, melancholy and upbeat, treads the line and dips a toe into the underworld more than once.” Read the full post...

Hertfordshire Mercury Feature She Makes War For Katie Charity Gig

Posted 14 Aug 2011 in Music,Press,She Makes War
“She Makes War for Katie, which is in honour of Katie Huttlestone, of Sells Road, will be held at the Corn Exchange on Saturday September 10 and is in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Organiser Leslie Baldock, whose wife works with Katie’s dad, said: “Katie’s a lovely girl and...

“Disarm” On The Radar at The Dadada

Posted 29 Jul 2011 in Music,Press,She Makes War
“The album is a collection of bleak, dystopian electro-pop songs, excellently produced and showcasing the awesome vocal prowess of Ms. Kidd. She excels at glorifying personal anxiety and disappointment without wallowing in self pity or sounding sophomoric.” Read the full post...