Kathryn Joseph is set to play a very special and intimate headline show at Spin the Black Circle, Worcester, on Friday, 21st August. This is a rare, up-close date with one of Scotland’s most fearless songwriters, so expect tickets to move fast.
Known for her fearless storytelling, raw emotional depth and unflinching honesty, Kathryn Joseph has made a lasting mark on contemporary music. A relentless pursuit of truth runs through each of her albums, from the devastating beauty of ‘Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled’ (2015), which won the Scottish Album of the Year Award, to the grief-stricken intensity of ‘From When I Wake the Want Is’ (2018), and ‘for you who are the wronged’ (2022), a powerful reckoning with abuse in all its forms.
Now, Kathryn embarks on a new chapter following the release of her fourth album, ‘WE WERE MADE PREY’. Recorded at the remote Black Bay Studio on the Isle of Lewis, the album explores the collision of want and loss, self-fulfilment and shame, embracing a newfound intensity: bigger, angrier and full of want.
Joining forces once again with Lomond Campbell, Kathryn’s delicate yet visceral sound continues to evolve, blending intimate, unfiltered lyrics with rich, atmospheric layers of piano, keyboards and electronic elements. Their long-standing collaboration has pushed her music into darker, more experimental territory, amplifying the raw emotional power at its core. Reflecting on how the album transformed in the studio, Kathryn describes the songs starting out angry in a small way, before Campbell’s input turned them into something bigger, more exciting, and full of want.
With such an intimate room and a show of this calibre, spaces will be limited, don’t sleep on this one.
