Kingfishers catch fire Kingfishers Catch Fire London Kingfishers Catch Fire 2008-2014 One autumn afternoon, not so long ago, songwriter William Robertson discovered a Victorian poem. The poem was by Gerard Manley Hopkins and was called “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”. Simultaneously, somewhere across London, his then partner and bandmate picked up a novel in a library. The novel was by Rumer Godden and was called “Kingfishers Catch Fire”. When that evening they each brought to light their respective discoveries, they agreed the happenstance was too great to ignore. And so the band name was born. Over the next few years, members came and went, relationships formed and faded, until a line up was established of musicians – Tristan Irvine (guitar), Marcus Mozley (drums), and Darran Paul Smith (bass) – whose unique brand of jangle-folk, reminiscent of acts such as early R.E.M., the Byrds and the Smiths, well befitted William’s delicately impassioned vocal style. Venting dark lyrical themes through uplifting melody and dense vocal harmony, William called upon the heartbreak and loss associated with the band’s brief history to inform the processes of songwriting and performance. Kingfishers’ two official releases, “Ballerina EP” and double A-side single “A Fear Of Mirrors” / “Dahlia”, received positive reviews and radio play from the likes of Tom Robinson and Gary Crowley. Free downloads: http://kingfishers.bandcamp.com Contact: kingfisherscatchfiremusic@gmail.com "Powerful pop!" Gary Crowley (BBC Introducing) "A pastoral opposite to the urban indie of so many bands, as if flowers and foxes have colonised a brown field site." Supajam "Kingfishers Catch Fire's music makes me feel a Victorian picnic by a bubbling brook. A decadent garden party at a manor house. A place where Bright Young Things can congregate in the last hedonistic summer of their youth, where simply looking divine gives you immortality. Somewhere where people love and feel too deeply to survive very long." Condemned to Rock 'N Roll "Damn good job. Damn good. Reduced my wife to tears. In a good way." Jim Murdoch (poet and novelist) Kingfishers catch fire’s tracks Kingfishers Catch Fire - Dahlia by Kingfishers catch fire published on 2014-03-17T17:23:29Z Kingfishers Catch Fire - A Fear Of Mirrors by Kingfishers catch fire published on 2014-03-13T13:45:51Z
Kingfishers Catch Fire - A Fear Of Mirrors by Kingfishers catch fire published on 2014-03-13T13:45:51Z
