Thursday 2 July 2015

News - Kitty Finer Unveils New Video


Written following a house party in Bristol (where Kitty lived while at art school), ‘Girls In The Garage’ is a jaunty dub with flourishes of mariachi brass and an Ethiopian-inspired sax solo played by Kitty’s dad, Jem Finer of The Pogues. The prominent brass section is completed by Dan Hayes of Fine Print and Pete Fraser of Down I Go, two of Kitty’s old-skool school friends. 

Although having always been in bands with boys and men, Kitty draws many of her influences from girl bands, from wall-of-sound soul women The Ronettes to punk rockers The Raincoats. In fact it was Raincoats member and filmmaker Gina Birch – who has made promos for the likes of The Libertines, New Order and The Veils – who pooled creative resources with Kitty to direct ‘Girls In The Garage’, a short that challenges conventions while bringing out the funny side. 

The two women met after Gina heard Kitty singing her songs with Finn Andrews of The Veils on a Resonance Radio show. It led to a friendship between two women of charisma, grit and brilliance; two art-school girls who exchanged messages across generations, expressed through the wit of ‘Girls In The Garage’. 

Kitty might not currently be part of a girl band but for the video she put together a dream team comprised of family and friends who she thought would make a brilliant fictional girl band. Members of this group include rappers, DJs, academics, teachers and artists. Watch them all in exuberant action in ‘Girls In The Garage’. 




Links
Kitty on Bandcamp
Kitty on Twitter


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