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TODAY our new album MOONSHINE FREEZE is released on Rough Trade Records!

And to kick off the celebrations Rozi Plain and I will be playing some songs at Resident Brighton at about 18:30. The next day we play in London aboard The Record Deck UK at about 4pm (moored up at mile end park). If you go to LIVE page it will tell you of the other instore events and festivals and gigs we gave coming up to celebrate the release of ‘Moonshine Freeze’. (Just in time for Sunday’s full moon).

We recorded the album last November with John Parish at Invada Studios in Bristol and it features the talents of many friends who we love dearly… Rachael Dadd, Emily stables, Melanie Wickham, Lorenzo Prati, Jesse d Vernon, Rozi Plain, Neil Smith, Jamie Whitby-Coles, Sam Church…to name but a few, and we are very happy for you to finally be able to hear all the songs.

THANKS GUYS! X

Happy to announce our new single ‘Bullet Proof”. Taken from the new album ‘Moonshine Freeze’, ‘Bullet Proof’ made it’s debut on the Marc Riley show last night on BBC 6 Music.

You can pre-order our new album ‘Moonshine Freeze’ on limited edition red vinyl, CD and digitally.

Very excited to announce we will be playing the Pitchfork Music Festival Paris this year! Taking place at the Grand Halle de la Villette in Paris across the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of November, we will be performing alongside such amazing artists as The National, Jungle, Ride and Run The Jewels.

Tickets for the event are available to buy now.

#P4Kparis

We’re thrilled to announce that our new album ‘Moonshine Freeze’ will be coming out on Rough Trade on the 7th of July.

Recorded during the winter months in Bristol with John Parish, and involving many pals who have been out on the road with us over the last couple of years, ‘Moonshine Freeze’ can be preordered from Rough Trade webstore with some very special goodies.

We have an exclusive bundle limited to the first 500 UK/EU orders and 100 US orders of the LP from the Rough Trade webstore which includes an exclusive This is the Kit tea towel, designed by Ava Carrère (from the band “Sages Comme des Sauvages”), and 6 postcards featuring Kate’s pinhole camera photography. The LP is pressed onto limited edition red vinyl:

You saw a little snippet of it last time, and now we are delighted to unveil the full live Rough Trade session of the title track ‘Moonshine Freeze’ right here:

More of those Rough Trade session tracks coming soon.

About the postcards we mentioned at the top of the page.  Once you’ve received your set of postcards, if you send one of them back to us with a drawing, poem, or short story plus your email address, Kate will choose her 10 favourites and each winner will receive a pair of tickets to a This is the Kit show of their choice (excluding the festivals).

Atn: This Is The Kit
Rough Trade Records
66 Golborne Road
London
W10 5PS

May 19  – The Great Escape Festival, Brighton, UK – tickets
Jun 16/17 – Eaux Claires Festival, Wisconsin, US – tickets
Jun 20 – Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn, US – tickets
Jul 16 – Folk by the Oak Festival, Herts, UK  – tickets
Jul 28 – Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall, UK – tickets
Jul 29 – Farmfest, Somerset, UK – tickets
Jul 30 – Cloudspotting, Lancashire, UK – tickets
Aug 05 – Valley Festival, Bristol, UK – tickets
Aug 11/12 – Haven Festival, Copenhagen, DK – tickets
Aug 18  – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, UK – tickets
Aug 25 – Purbeck Valley Folk Festival, UK – tickets
Sep 02 – Electric Fields Festival, Dumfries, UK – tickets
Sep 16 – The Hubs, Sheffield, UK – tickets
Sep 17 – Gorilla, Manchester, UK – tickets
Sep 20 – Revelation at St Mary’s, Ashford, UK – tickets
Sep 21 – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UK – tickets
Sep 23 – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, DE – tickets

More shows to be announced very soon. Thanks for listening!

excitement and joy abounds! we are thrilled to announce we’ve signed to the wonderful, legendary, rough trade records.
a new album is in the works and to whet your appetite you can watch a snippet of us playing a new song from a forthcoming rough trade session (keep your eyes peeled for that):

we’ll be playing that song, and many others across the summer and into autumn, with newly announced shows in new york in june, and around the uk in september:

May 19  – The Great Escape Festival, Brighton, UK – tickets
Jun 16/17 – Eaux Claires Festival, Wisconsin, US – tickets
Jun 20 – Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn, US – tickets (On Sale Friday 14^th April)
Jul 16 – Folk by the Oak Festival, Herts, UK  – tickets
Jul 28 – Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall, UK – tickets
Jul 29 – Farmfest, Somerset, UK – tickets
Jul 30 – Cloudspotting, Lancashire, UK – tickets
Aug 05 – Valley Festival, Bristol, UK – tickets
Aug 11/12 – Haven Festival, Copenhagen, DK – tickets
Aug 18-20 – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, UK – tickets
Aug 25 – Purbeck Valley Folk Festival, UK – tickets
Sep 02 – Electric Fields Festival, Dumfries, UK – tickets
Sep 16 – The Hubs, Sheffield, UK – tickets  (On Sale Friday 14^th April)
Sep 17 – Gorilla, Manchester, UK – tickets (On Sale Friday 14^th April)
Sep 20 – Revelation at St Mary’s, Ashford, UK – tickets  (On Sale Friday 14^th April)
Sep 21 – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UK – tickets

Many more exciting things coming very, very soon