Kirsten Adamson for Inverness

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Kirsten Adamson to play Mad Hatters, Inverness in April 2016.

When a press release arrives with the following you sit up and take notice:

“Imagine Kate Bush and Debbie Harry – in their pomp – are stuck in an elevator on the 13th Floor. The engineers sent to rescue them turn out to be Crowded House’s Tim Finn and Massive Attack’s 3D. Rather than save the legendary singers, they all decide to write and record an album. While comparison with other artists is a crude shorthand for this strikingly original and assured debut, the result may well have sounded a lot like Kirsten Adamson’s self-titled opener”.

The Kirsten Adamson mentioned above is the daughter of the late Stuart Adamson frontman of Big Country coming from an historical musical background in Scotland. Growing up, her two main influences were Kate Bush and her father’s band, Big Country.

In 1998 her father relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, where she would spend her summers and it was here where she first picked up a guitar. Classically trained in voice from a young age, Kirsten has grown to become a wonderfully diverse singer songwriter and her debut albumir?t=wwwinvernessg 21&l=as2&o=2&a=B017B642VI - Kirsten Adamson for Invernessencompasses her eccentricities with class and originality.

Kirsten Adamson plays Mad Hatters on Saturday April 2nd.

A notefrom the editor

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Frank Finlayson
Frank Finlayson
Chartered surveyor by day, music reviewer by night, and occasionally I get to use my camera. A strange mix, but one that I enjoy. A chance meeting in the queue for Bella in 2010 led to the opportunity to write for InvernessGigs; a far cry from the days of writing for a football fanzine back in the late 80s, early 90s. My interests lie between the mainstream, the emerging and the local. Increasingly I find that we have more than enough locally to entertain us to necessitate a trip south. I’m always happy to give a listen, whatever the genre. Inverness has a plethora of talent, all of which I am more than keen to write about. If it encourages just one person to make the effort to listen to some new music I’ll be happy. You can contact Frank direct via frankieboyfin@gmail.com

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