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January 22, 2019 8:00 pm - 11:30 pm
The Stone Church
210 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT
802-579-9960
When asked to describe the title track from his new record, Kyle Thomas aka King Tuff takes a deep breath. Its a song about hitting rock bottom, he says. I didn’t even know what I wanted to do anymore, but I still had this urge this feeling like there was this possibility of something else I could be doing and then I just followed that possibility. To me, that’s what songwriting, and art in general, is about. You’re chasing something, there is something out there calling to you and you’re trying to get at it. The Other is basically where songs come from, its the hidden world, its the mystery. Its the invisible hand that guides you whenever you make something. Its the thing I had to rediscover the sort of voice I had to follow to bring me back to making music again in a way that felt true and good.
While it would be easy to think of The Other as a kind of reinvention for King Tuff, Thomas views the entire experience of the record as a kind of psychic reset, and something not totally removed from what hes done in the past. I cant help but sound like me, he says. Its just that this time I let the songs lead me where they wanted to go, instead of trying to push them into a certain zone. King Tuff was always just supposed to be me. When I started doing this as a teenager, it was whatever I wanted it to be. King Tuff was never supposed to be just one thing. It was supposed to be everything.
Stonefield is an Australian rock band comprising the four Findlay sisters: Amy on drums and lead vocals, Hannah on lead guitar, Sarah on keyboards, and Holly on bass guitar. They were formed in 2006 as Iotah in Darraweit Guim, a small town in rural Victoria. They changed their name in 2010 and have released three studio albums, Stonefield(October 2013), As Above, So Below(July 2016) – which peaked at No. 19 on the ARIA Albums Chart – and Far from Earth (April 2018)
https://flightless.lnk.to/Stonefield_FarFromEarth
Based in Brattleboro Vermont, I Love You! is an amalgam of melancholy and orphic drive with infectious melodies and haunting lyricism. I Love You! is made up of all queer members who strive to create a safe queer space for queer show-goers.
