Kitt happens
David Kitt talks to Patrick Freyne about the joy and financial insecurity of complete and utter independence.
Patrick Freyne, 15 Apr 2009
“People are always trying to find benchmarks,” says David Kitt. “Making records breaks your life up into these convenient two-year sections, and when a new record comes along journalists need you to explain what’s changed since the last one, but that’s not always really that representative of what’s really going on. And often when I think about interviews a few days later I realise that I’d give totally different answers in retrospect.”
So with that caveat, it’s benchmark time. For the past two and half years David Kitt’s been living alone, working through the night and putting in 80-hour weeks into his music in a flat/studio somewhere along Dublin’s grand canal. As the label infrastructure that sustained him for the first part of his career fell apart, and the bills accumulated in the hall, he rediscovered his musical mojo, churned out two songs a day and released The Nightsaver, the first of two albums he plans to release in 2009. And it is, as we journalists say, a return to form, with beautiful home production, and some genuine, sincere, uncontrived gems.
“You know when you’re 17 and find the three other freaks in the town and you sit around drinking cans listening to indie music?” he asks. “Well, there’s been a healthy kind of gang of misfits around me in the last couple of years, and that’s helped me make more sense of myself, how I fit into living in Dublin, and why I do what I do. From the music-making end of things, I felt like I’d found a way of taking everything that influenced me and distilling it down into one thing, as opposed to trying to make each record in a certain style. I really felt that that was something very, very simple that I’d lost for a while. I really want to get the records out there and share the music that’s important to me, but there’s still songs coming every day... two a day almost. I’ve never experienced anything like it before. And after all that, two different records started taking shape. One was this record and the other was the Spilly Walker one.”
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