We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.
The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ...
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
Fresh from supporting Graham Coxon and Supergrass on their UK tours, Cathy Davey is doing a few headline dates of here own to promote the debut album release of ‘Something Ilk’ on the 23rd August.
Monday 23rd August -The Fudge Club, Liverpool
Tuesday 24th August – The Orange Tree, Nottingham
Wednesday 25th August – The Glee Club, Birmingham
Thursday 26th August – The Consortium, Bournemouth
Something Ilk was recorded with Blur producer Ben Hillier at Rockfield Studio during the 2003 heat wave. Davey and her band experimented with natural sounds and made the most of Hillier’s selection of pre-war mics and old synths. Strange noises lurk underneath many of the songs, the result of recording with the studio doors wide open and the inclusion of some curious instrumentation. As far as Davey is concerned it only adds to her songs. ‘Noises and mistakes give character’, she says, ‘They make your songs sound alive. The result is a record that doesn’t sound like anything else in your collection.’
Cathy Davey isn¹t your typical singer songwriter. Far from it. Bearing in mind its usual connotations, she finds the prospect of being placed in that category distinctly unsettling. It¹s a label Davey whole-heartedly rejects. ‘The whole thing is so po-faced. It gives me the willies’, she says. ‘I’m not interested in being self-analytical or fey because it makes me feel like a knob.