deXter Bentley presents Rose Kemp LIVE @ PUB POP - 29.11.08

The deXter Bentley hello goodBye show (Resonance 104.4FM) proudly presents... PUB POP
With:


ROSE KEMP


HANDS ON HEADS


PLUG


Saturday 29th November 2008
@ The Miller (020 7407 2690)
96 Snowsfields, London Bridge / Borough, SE1 3SS

DJ: MFP

Doors: 8.30pm
Cost: £5

Rose Kemp
On the 1st of September, Rose Kemp released her new album Unholy Majesty through One Little Indian Records. The album is produced and mixed by Chris Sheldon (Foo Fighters/Amplifier/Biffy Clyro.)

Roses unique powerful vocal is sometimes operatic, sometimes fierce but equally haunting, her musical style is extremely difficult to categorize, folk-esque /heavy rock has previously been cited but doesnt really sum up this exceptional album. Woven together with multi hook harmonies and quality instrumentation, this album slowly buries itself under your skin. Lyrically the songs are compelling and their content somewhat mysterious but backed up with heavy rock guitars, oversized drums, old synths and organs, they are infectious and thought provoking. Roses influences are numerous but include the classic rock of Black Sabbath, alternative rock legends The Melvins and drone artists such as Earth and Om. She is also influenced by classic Black Metal, Doom and 70s prog right through to timeless songwriters including Kate Bush and Tom Waits, amongst many others.

Part of folk-rock heritage, Rose is the daughter of Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp from seminal, Pioneering British band Steeleye Span. As a young teenager she sang and toured and occasionally wrote with her parents various different projects including Steeleye Span (who still gig today), and her life on the road began when she was knee-high, accompanying her parents on tour. Her first recorded & writing contributions were on 2002s a cappella folk album Bib And Tuck by Maddy Prior And The Girls, released on Park Records. The same record label released Roses debut solo album Glance the following year, before she hit the road with The Oyster Band and Eliza Carthy among others. But Rose was ready to find her own way and continue to branch out of the tradition, trading her acoustic guitar for an electric guitar, taking her in the rock direction we hear today.

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