King Cresote: KC Rules OK

This album is a sibling of last week's Adem CD. As with that, I won this promotional copy in a competition BBC 6 Music. I'd somehow caught the scent of King Creosote a few months earlier and wanted to find out more. I saw him first at the Luminaire on 14 June 2005, but he came on so late that I only caught part of his set before rushing off to get the tube home. I caught him again at the same venue six weeks later — playing this time with The Earlies as his backing band. I think I'm right in saying The Earlies play on, and co-produced, this album, but if my promo copy had any list of credits, I've lost it now.

Hence when I heard the following week that Steve Lamacq was giving away copies of the new album (still a month before its release), I tuned in. The question was no doddle: we were asked to give the stage names of King Creosote's (Kenny Anderson's) two brothers. I'd seen one of them, Pip Dylan, at the Luminaire in June, and the other was Lone Pidgeon. Happily I was one of the three winners.

Lucy took an immediate liking to the album, and remains a bigger fan than me. We've seen him twice more since, at the Barbican, as part of Folk Britannia, and at last year's Green Man Festival (he's on at the festival this year, as well). One way and another most of these songs have worked their way into my brain now, so that each one sounds like an old friend — even though I could barely name a single track title from memory. I think that's because they're both catchy tunes and they're quite simple and repetitive.

MusicBrainz entry for this album