Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

It makes sense to hold the idea that teenage pop stars would make absolutely cutting edge music, setting trends themselves by being more on the ball than anyone older than them. However, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis show that the opposite can be just as true. The band play a blend of jump blues, swing and old school rock ‘n’ roll that seems more appropriate for a period drama set in the 1950’s than today’s pop charts. It seems almost too good to be true, but this is a story that can’t be made up. The siblings were born into a highly musical family, with their father Graeme and their mother Ingrid backing them up live to this day on the guitar and double bass respectively.

This chemistry worked wonders for the band and by 2008, when their first album was coming out, none of them were 20 yet, and the youngest of them, Kitty, was only 15. The trio came to fame thanks to their thrilling live show, which sees the whole trio switch between playing guitar, drums, keys, harmonica, banjo and practically every other instrument under the sun. It won over everyone from Ewan McGregor to Dustin Hoffman to Chris Martin and Johnny Borrell, the latter of whom would take the band on the road and have them open for them in cavernous arenas in the U.K and the U.S. They’ve also opened for the famed American jam band Phish at a show in Seattle, Washington, showing just how far reaching their sound is.

The best part is that the project is working, although they’ve never quite seen true commercial success. February 2015 saw them sell out the 1’100 capacity Electric Ballroom in Camden and they have played sets at the Glastonbury, Coachella and Latitude Festivals to name but a few. Slowly but surely the band are becoming true cult heroes, and they are truly peerless, in every sense of the word. For that, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis come highly recommended.