King Creosote

Kenny Anderson, known primarily by his stage name King Creosote, is an
independent singer-songwriter from Fife, Scotland. To date, Anderson has
released over forty albums, with his latest, Thrawn, released in 2011.
Anderson is also a member of Scottish-Canadian band, The Burns Unit. In 2011,
Anderson's collaborative album with Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine, was ... read more

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The Barclaycard Mercury Award nominees King Creosote and Jon Hopkins popped into Absolute Radio before the prestigious...
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Interview video

The Barclaycard Mercury Award nominees popped into Absolute Radio before the prestigious event to talk to Geoff about...
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Watch: Interview

Interview video

Absolute Radio's Tumshie Smillie speaks to King Creosote on the red carpet at the Barclaycard Mercury Awards 2011.
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King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – review

St George's Church, BrightonThis, says Kenny Anderson contentedly, is his favourite gig of his tour with multi-instrumentalist Jon Hopkins. There is always the chance he ...
Posted 6 February 6.20pm — Comment on this

This week's new singles

ToyLeft Myself Behind/Clock Chime (Heavenly)From the Libertines to the Enemy, the prosaic and clumsy have triumphed in post-Britpop UK guitar music. Toy, garnering press ...
Posted 4 February 12.05am — Comment on this

Live music: coming up

Take a look at the gigs our writers will be reviewing this week, and tell us about live music you've seen recentlyEach week we publish a list of concerts our writers will...
Posted 30 January 3.19pm — Comment on this

The best albums and songs of 2011, as voted by readers

Find out what our readers selected as the best music of 2011. You won't believe what's at number oneThe internet is a wonderful thing. It can give a voice to the voiceles...
Posted 22 December 2011 1.37pm — Comment on this

The best albums of 2011: 50-11

Next week we'll be counting down our top 10 albums of the year … but here's how the rest of our critics' top 50 looksStarting on Monday we'll be counting down Guard...
Posted 1 December 2011 4.17pm — Comment on this

This Week's Singles: 19/09/11 The Antlers, Jens Lekman, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

In case you were wondering and even if you were not, music's current most popular tropes are: 'Tom Petty', 'Jonathan Richman', 'Angelo Badalamenti', 'Bristol circa 1993' ...
Posted 19 September 2011 1.42pm — Comment on this

Mercury prize 2011: Live blog

It's the most important day in the history of music! Or it's when a musician gets a prize while other people have something to eat. Either way, we'll be liveblogging the ...
Posted 6 September 2011 5.15pm — Comment on this

Mercury prize albums: the best of your reviews

We asked you to review the albums shortlisted for tonight's Mercury prize and you delivered handsomely …Last week we asked readers to submit reviews of Mercury-nomi...
Posted 6 September 2011 3.45pm — Comment on this

PJ Harvey favourite to win Mercury prize 2011

Let England Shake is bookies' favourite for 20th Mercury prize, with King Creosote and Jon Hopkins emerging as dark horses• Listen to all the nominated albums and p...
Posted 6 September 2011 10.47am — Comment on this

Interview: King Creosote - From Anstruther to Mercury, the long way round

Fife's Kenny Anderson, AKA King Creosote, has been recording for two decades and has run a record label for 15 years, so what does the Mercury Prize nomination for his um...
Posted 6 September 2011 1.00am — Comment on this

King Creosote and Jon Hopkins live session: How We Wrote John Taylor's Month Away - video

Kenny Anderson, otherwise known as King Creosote, is joined by London-based collaborator Jon Hopkins to share this simple story of a Scots fishermanKing CreosoteBen KapeA...
Posted 25 August 2011 1.08pm — Comment on this

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