Chords for K.T. Tunstall

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_ _ How are you?
I'm doing well.
That's good.
I'm really good.
You know, it's interesting, you know, when we knew we were going to have you on the show,
I sort of wondered, we all know how we look back at the last year or so of your life,
but how do you look back on it? _ _ _
It's a little bit weird.
It's a bit like, you know, that bit in Twister where they're like chaining themselves to the pipe?
Yeah.
It's a bit like that.
But did you know that the Twister was coming or did you just think it was coming?
No, I didn't.
I didn't know.
And then it's very odd that you suddenly find yourself in the middle of something and it's so weird.
It's so hard to kind of step out of it and look at it, you know, when you're inside it.
And so people say, how does it feel?
I'm not sure I'm going to know until I'm about 50 and like smoking my pipe going, that was great.
Nice.
[F#] What will be in the pipe when you're 50?
Do you know that?
I'll tell you.
I'll tell you later.
Come and see me when I'm 50.
Come to my house.
All right.
It'll be a little shack in the woods.
And you'll be like, what a hell of a run I had.
And I wonder this because I spent a long time working in music television and music radio
and you rarely see an artist these days born out of a fire in that it's very well controlled,
very well managed, very well organized.
When you performed on Jules' show, Jules Holland's show, the next day people like I started to
hear about it, we all sort of, hey, did you see this girl that no one knows?
Did you see what she did?
She went on the show and [C] instantly _ you were there and it was sort of, you didn't look
like you had a lot of time to prepare your career.
I mean, you were there.
I didn't.
I didn't.
I didn't have any time to prepare for people _ kind of _ seeing and hearing me all at once
in Britain anyway.
_ _ _ Playing wise, I'd been playing for, you know, 10 years.
So it was great in a way that I was absolutely fine to get up on a [N] stage and play.
Nas cancelled.
Nas cancelled and 24 hours notice and I got up.
So I didn't have time to get nervous about it.
And then when I got to the show, I mean, the Jules Holland show is amazing because you
just get mad different artists from completely different backgrounds and places around the world together.
So that show I was on with Jackson Brown and Anita Baker, The Cure and The Future Heads,
who are a great British band.
Oh, absolutely.
And my favorite clip is me really small in the distance through Robert Smith's hair.
_ I need to get the still and get it on the wall because it's class.
When you look at that, when you look back at that picture, though, what do you see?
Like, what do you think of?
Well, I look at myself then and I just think, God, I look I look really young.
It's not that long ago, but I also look really, really just so unaware.
And so, you know, I'm just concentrating on doing what I'm doing.
And now when you're used to the glare and you're used to the publicity and that you're
you know, you're kind of I'm styling a bit more and trying to put on a good show.
And I look at that.
I'm just like, I'm not even concerned about about the camera.
Part of it is that this this bloody pedal is it's so easy to get it wrong.
Yeah, it's I mean, it's really crass.
There's no memory.
There's no tempo stuff.
You just have to like go for it and hope that you get it right.
And it was funny.
I went to a radio show up in Scotland and this guy said, oh, Katie, I saw you're doing
that pedal and I realized what you're doing.
I went, no, _ don't do it.
And he like he realized he actually spoke like he did speak.
Awesome.
And he realized how horrible, how horribly wrong it could go.
And so and I don't think my record label still realize that I'm just going, right, we're
going to do the Today Show.
It's going to be live.
I'm just going.
You realize it could go hideously wrong.
They're like, no, no, yes.
Did you wonder at a certain point, because while 27 is young, the music business for
women is not unlike tennis.
There's a certain age.
Yeah, you have a certain age.
Yeah.
Right.
And I wondered, you know, when you're 18, 19, 20, 21 years old, by the time you hit
25, 26, were you sitting there wondering if this is going to happen for me?
_ To be honest, I didn't think about that.
I didn't.
I was quite surprised when I got down.
I went to a fight because for many years I didn't want a record deal.
I'd fallen in with a bunch of wayward, weird, weirdy beardies that played very alternative,
odd folk music up in Fife, where I'm from in Scotland, _ and then slowly realized that
A, I didn't have a beard and B, I wasn't writing weird folk music.
I was actually writing like pop melodies and I should kind of see where that took me and
really try and get a career out of it.
So I went down to London.
And when I went to play for people and they were quite blatantly saying, you're the wrong
side of 25, you're past it.
I was just going, oh, look at me, I'm so haggard.
You'll never sell this.
You know?
And it didn't make me go, oh, what a nightmare, I so want to be on your label.
It just made me think, you're dumb.
Because there's amazing blueprints of older women, like Patti Smith was 27 with horses.
Debbie Harry was [G] 34 when she started Blondie.
[G#] _ Cheryl Crowe, 34 with her first.
And Cheryl Crowe's one of the biggest selling artists on the planet.
What I want to talk to you about as well is Global Cool.
Tell me about this, because this is what we want to talk about.
Yeah, well, it was a really enlightening time for me when I left home and finally went to
London and _ _ my boyfriend, who is the drummer in the band _ for quite a few years, was the
drummer for Joe Strummer with the [F#] Mescaleros.
_ Amazing.
I saw your boyfriend play.
Really?
Yeah.
Where was that?
They played at a record store in Toronto and then they played at a small venue called The
[Dm] Government in Toronto.
It was fantastic.
Yeah.
I mean, he's a phenomenal drummer.
To be honest with you, I wasn't really looking at your boyfriend, I was looking at Joe.
That's okay.
Whatever.
You probably got a little bit of him behind you.
Randomly.
You thought you were looking at Joe.
_ _ _ But Joe was a real environmentalist and really cared a lot about the effect of what he did
on the environment.
And I didn't know that until after he died, sadly. _
Luke the drummer and I had just got together [F] and we went down to have this great celebration
of his life on his land where he lived with his wife.
And I met this guy, Dan Morrell, who was a really good friend of Joe's and _ had started Global Cool.
And Joe had planted all these trees on his land to offset his carbon emissions.
And Dan said to me around the fire, if you think you're going to sell some records, call
me and we can totally sort out your emissions.
And obviously, you're still putting emissions out there, so it's offsetting.
It's obviously better not to make them in the first place.
But there isn't an eco-friendly way of making albums at the moment.
So _ I to the telescope ended up with 6,000 trees up in Scotland, which was great.
But it is a storage system where when the trees die or get cut down, it's all out again.
So with this album, and it's just the revenue I get, I'll just bunt some money towards offsetting.
But you needed more than that.
Did you knock on Tony Blair's door?
Yeah.
I didn't really know what to say.
I was like_
So did someone [C#] call you and say_
If I say anything, I'm going to say something about Iraq. _
I'm going to leave it to Josh Hartnett, okay?
_ _ Did somebody call you and say, listen, we're going to do this event, we'd like you to partake?
It was through Global Cool.
They decided that we'd kind of launch the whole game plan, which is to reduce carbon
emissions by [F] 10 billion tons in 10 years.
_ And it's actually not that crazy a goal.
It was just changing some basic choices that people make.
And it's not even stuff that's going to really change your life in any way.
It's just deciding to do that instead of that.
So you knock on the door.
We knocked on the door.
And?
And we went in and he_
The thing was_
Oh, by the way, every single light bulb, energy efficient, they were on the ball.
They were so on the ball.
_ And we went in and we met the Minister for the Environment at the time.
And that was great.
And he had a speech and Dan got up and made a speech.
And then Tony Blair got up and made a speech.
And he was really_
I mean, he's a good orator.
He spoke well.
He talked about radical action.
And, _ you know, I _ _ find it very hard to believe politicians.
But it's just good that it's a talking point and that that was visible pressure to try and change what was going on.
Were you always comfortable with that idea?
I mean, there is a moment when you decide you're going to_
Like, it's one thing to plant trees.
But yeah, but then also you're like, oh, yeah, I'm going to go to the Prime Minister's house.
It's a little dodgy.
I'm not a particularly political person.
And I think if you launch yourself too far into that, then someone's going to go, well, what do you think about Burma?
And I'm going to go, _ _ [N] where's that?
It used to be called Myanmar.
It's how it is.
It's called Myanmar now.
I don't want to go out and pretend that I know, you know, the knobs and whistles about all of politics and how it works and what's being done and what isn't being done.
But I know what I do know is that there isn't bills in our country that are being passed to say that we shouldn't use old light bulbs anymore.
It's really easy.
They're like, oh, it'll take years.
No, it won't.
Just say they're not they're not legal anymore.
We'll replace them.
_ That's not simple.
I should be the _ _ _ president.
Don't drop litter or you'll go to jail. _
If that's what you think, that'd be a terrible prime minister move if you were that president.
Thanks for coming in.
It's great to see you.
No worries.
Thanks very much.
KT Transall, everybody.
Check out the brand new record, Drastic Fantastic.
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