Hi there,
we are a trio who loves to play music from a range of Celtic lands, as well as writing our own material.
We are
Ginny on voice, cello and fiddle
John on chromatic button accordion and melodeon
Roy on bodhran and cajon
We have been playing together for 18 months and are having a great time traveling to lots of different places and sharing our music with new people. We hope you enjoy our sound too.
Our electronic press kit says
Euro/Celtic folk roots trio driven by voice,cello, accordion and bodhran, play with unrestrained energy and barely bridled fervour. Strange time signatures abound, songs about merman and frogs, tunes about awkward sprites and plastic bags! A guitar free zone and a unique sound.
have a listen and decide for yourselves!!
thanks for your time
KTM
Kiss The Mistress came into its first incarnation back in 1995, when Ginny and John, asked to play as a fiddle/box duo for a fund raiser event in Hertford were stuck for a name. A hastily grabbed Brewers dictionary, a random page opened and a finger point led to KTM and this was the name used for three or four years by the duo in the Hertfordshire area.
After following various other creative projects for a decade, John decided to add a new instrument to his musical collection and ordered his chromatic button accordion. A period of intense learning followed, during which Ginny realised that her fiddle playing skills would be inadequate to meet the less common keys that the accordion could play in. As a result she started to redevelop her 'cello playing which was left behind after University.
The end result was that after realising what a brilliant name Kiss The Mistress was, they reconvened with the exciting new addition of the amazing Roy!
We do loads of live gigs- from small intimate audiences where you can smell their perfume to big gigs on proper stages at festi's. They are all brilliant. That moment the band connects with the audience is magic. Mind you Ginny always chats to them like she is having mates round in her front room!
Oooer this is a tricky one.
Ginny - All the amazing Breton musicians who have inspired us over the past fives years, old school rock (deep Purple Black Sabbath), Planxty, Bothy band, weird electronic German music of the 70's.
John - pretty much the same
Roy- Fluke,
1830 French cello, 1900's German fiddle
Salterelle petite chromatic button accordion, Castagnari Nic melodeon
Brown Bodhran