King Creosote and The Earlies in session

King Creosote is the brainchild of Kenny Anderson, an amiable chap from Fife who found his musical calling via a busking trip.

"I'd just finished University and one of my flatmates suggested we go round busking round Europe," he tells OneMusic. "We realised we were on to something when we played at Strasbourg and a crowd of about four hundred turned up!"

Kenny went on to found the Fence Collective, a bunch of musicians (who include James Yorkston and Lone Pigeon among their number) who collaborate together and do their own music.

"Every person in my band has about four other bands so I don't have a full time band as such," says Kenny.

Enter The Earlies, a band on Names Records, run by Bill Campbell head honcho of the Rough Trade shop in Notting Hill, London. Campbell a big fan of King Creosote recommended that Kenny hook up with The Earlies, an eleven piece band from Manchester, for his next record. Kenny had never met The Earlies, but he had stumbled across them at a festival.

"The first time I saw The Earlies was at the Green Man Festival last year and I thought they were American with big moustaches," he recalls with a grin. "What I really liked about them was the fact they could get a lot of mileage out of two chords - I'm very much a fan of that."

The first time the two met up was the first day of recording. Christian, The Earlies keyboard player remembers it fondly. "I met him outside a pub in Charlton, near Manchester and he was there with a guitar - and his daughter! We'd never met before then, and it turned out he couldn't get a babysitter so I ended up carrying Beth around on my shoulders for most of the day!"

The end result is 'KC Rules OK' released on September 19 on Names/679 Records, featuring bleeps, horns, strings and atmospherics and heartfelt songs. It's his third album, the follow up to Rocket DIY and Kenny and Beth's Musakal Boat Rides.

This is King Creosote's first session for OneMusic.

You can catch King Creosote live in November at the following venues:

2nd Cambridge The Junction
3rd London Arts Depot
4th Exeter Phoenix
5th London Blackheath Halls
6th Brighton Hanbury Ballroom
7th Bracknell South Hill Park
8th Leeds Wardrobe
9th Aberdeen Lemon Tree
10th Glasgow Mono
12th Sale Waterside Arts
13th Dublin Crawdaddy
14th Birmingham Glee Club

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