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Long Blondes’ Kate Jackson announces debut solo album
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 1 March 2016
Former Long Blondes frontwoman Kate Jackson has announced that she will release her debut solo album, ‘British Road Movies’, on 20 May.
Following the break up of the Long Blondes in 2008, Jackson became a painter, living and working in Italy until 2014. However, seeing Nick Cave film ‘20,000 Days On Earth’ sparked a desire to get back to music.
“The road, much written about in American popular song, and an American cinematic staple, is often ignored in British culture”, she says of the album’s title and running theme. “As an island our roads lead somewhere far too quickly to hold adventure. We are not the land of Jack Kerouac but of Antiques Road Trip. But who is to say our roads can’t be cinematic?”
The record was co-written and produced by Bernard Butler, of whom Jackson says: “We initially bonded over a shared love of Bowie, The Fall, Neil Young and Brian Eno, and quickly found that songwriting flowed freely between us”.
Listen to a track form the album, ‘Metropolis’, here:
