I got obsessed for a while about this song...see why! KT Tunstall, this Scottish singer-songwriter of Chinese descent is phenomenal! How does she do all that?!?


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Found out:

Having been playing songs on her guitar since she was 16, Tunstall decided it was time to do something a bit different. So she invested in a device called an Akai Headrush foot pedal.

It allows her to play something, loop it up so that it repeats, then play something on top and loop that up, ad infinitum (or, at least, until the thing runs out of memory, which it hasn't yet). Singing her own backing vocals, thumping on the body of a guitar and stamping on a tambourine for percussion, suddenly the girl with a guitar turns out to be a rather crazed one-woman band. "My rhythm playing is full-on. I just go absolutely nuts, trying to play solos while strumming." It is something to behold, as BBC2 viewers discovered when she was invited to appear (as a last-minute replacement for rapper Nas) on Later With Jools Holland, and promptly stole the show (she scored 50 per cent of the viewers' vote for best performance on the programme's website).

"The room for error is hideous," Tunstall confesses with a kind of wicked relish. "I played a gig in Manchester the other night and completely arsed it up. If anyone actually knew what could go wrong they wouldn't let me do it on television!" When things go awry live, she says, she has a handy scapegoat. "The pedal is called the Wee Bastard, because once you give it a name, you can lay the blame." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/12/02/bmkt02.xml