Biography

David Kitt releases a brand new album of original songs, Not Fade Away, on Dublin Discs in Ireland on 18 August 2006. Rough Trade will release it outside Ireland in October.

Over the years Dublin-born David Kitt has more than proved himself as a writer and a performer. Kittser first stole our attention with the tingling soft focus home-recorded debut album Small Moments on Rough Trade in August 2000, freely outshining the favoured acoustica movement of the time with the sheer depth of feel of his songs.

His second album, The Big Romance, burst into bloom in May of 2001 on the Blanco y Negro label revealing a myriad of sounds; quietly fizzing and popping German-informed electronics, impressionistic and elemental lyrical portraits, composite vocal harmonies and driving atmospheric guitars. For the first time in a long time it seemed as though a songwriter of real genre-defying imagination had made a break-through. The Big Romance went on to achieve in excess of Double Platinum sales in Ireland.

Full tours with Tindersticks, The Moldy Peaches, Starsailor and Mercury Rev, headline tours of the UK and Europe, short and sweet expeditions to the States and several blitzes of the European festival circuit saw Kittser’s live set constantly morphing from one man shows to full band rock outs and everything imaginable in between. He frequently added unpredictable cover versions for the sheer hell of it, including a tender acoustic take on Prince’s “When Doves Cry” and an electronic jam version of The Velvet Underground’s “Waiting For My Man” to name a few. But it was one of his own songs, “Headphones”, which travelled all the way from the Small Moments album to become the extended sonic centrepiece of the whole set.

With his third album, Square One, Kittser took his music to a plane where wonder and naiveté breathed in harmony with skilful modern pop song writing and production. A collection of love songs and a collection of pop songs the album documented a songwriter coming of age, applying his previous exploration of exciting new sounds and techniques into a record of unabashed clarity and soul. Square One was also the glorious freewheelin’ soundtrack to David Kitt falling in love. It was also the first of his albums to feature substantially other musicians playing various parts of the songs – on previous albums virtually all of the instrumentation was by Kitt himself. On its release Sqaure One entered the Irish album charts at No 1 and stayed there for 3 weeks.

Over his career so far David Kitt has been nominated for a host of awards (he won the Best Male category in the Meteor Ireland Music Awards in 2002 and was nominated in 2 categories at the same awards in 2004) and has featured strongly in the Hot Press readers’ and critics’ polls since his first release.

David released an album of cover versions, The Black & Red Notebook, on his own Dublin Discs label in October 2004.