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KT Tunstall

September 2026

  • Musician KT Tunstall sings into microphone in dimly lit venue

    UK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with ‘hyper-realistic’ digital avatars

    Unit1 hopes to offer lower cost version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venue

August 2026

  • Jamie Rea and Dylan Wood plays guitar onstage under colorful spotlights

    The Singer review – come on feel the noise with KT Tunstall’s glowing gig theatre

    In Cora Bissett’s highly enjoyable and accessible production, a deaf man reintroduces a busker to the joy of music

June 2026

  • Hannah Reilly plays a feminist podcaster in Roleplay. She is pictured in underwear, holding a headphone cord like a whip

    Bigfoot, ‘slutfluencers’ and a David Bowie-powered gay fantasia: Edinburgh festival 2026’s must-see theatre

    Plays about political extremes, religious sects, swimming the Channel and an 80th birthday party are among the highlights at this summer’s arts spectacular

December 2025

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    Honest playlist
    ‘Have sex to my own music? That sounds repugnant’: KT Tunstall’s honest playlist

    The Scots singer thought Kim Wilde was cool and got talked into buying a Cocteau Twins record but which song gives her a slap in the face?

March 2025

  • Clueless

    Clueless review – all back to the 90s for a musical of the movie? As if!

    Amy Heckerling adapts her own iconic screenplay for a lumbering production in need of more belters from composer KT Tunstall

January 2025

  • Soul Glo perform at the Windmill, Brixton.

    ‘It was carnage – in the best way!’ Manic Street Preachers, Sleaford Mods, KT Tunstall and more pick their favourite small gig venues

    The drinks are thrown, the crowds are feral – and the bands are right in your face. On independent venue week, musicians talk about their most cherished concert sweatboxes

September 2024

  • As if … Amy Heckerling’s 1995 film made a star of Alicia Silverstone, above, as Cher Horowitz.

    ‘Like a gig with your favourite 90s artists’: KT Tunstall composes Clueless musical

    Adaptation of Amy Heckerling’s classic 1995 comedy will open in London in February with a new score by the Scottish musician inspired by its soundtrack

January 2023

  • Laura Snapes

    double quotation markBrit awards: all-male best artist category reveals wider music industry sickness

    Laura Snapes
    Out of the 71 acts eligible for the gender-neutral award, only 13 were female or non-binary. The dearth exposes the British industry’s inability to develop anyone but young men

November 2022

  • ‘I sound angelic’ … KT Tunstall.

    How we made
    ‘It made me a pop star – and I’m crap at being a pop star’: KT Tunstall on Suddenly I See

    ‘I looked at Patti Smith on the cover of her album Horses. There’s no makeup, no glam, no plastic surgery – she’s not a famous pop star with lots of money. And I thought, “That’s what I want to be”’

October 2020

  • Ivor Cutler in 1997.

    Ivor Cutler by KT Tunstall review – a plum of a programme

    Tunstall’s celebration of the eccentric, poet and performer didn’t eschew more difficult testimony, but made a heartfelt love letter to a charming and yet slightly unsettling man

October 2019

  • KT Tunstall

    All-female line-up makes statement at Hear Her festival

    Event took place at Sandford Holiday Park in Poole and featured Shura and KT Tunstall

December 2018

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    KT Tunstall and Amy Macdonald perform at homelessness fundraisers

    Singer-songwriters to play whirlwind four gigs in one evening across Scotland

September 2016

  • Bike path along the beach in Venice

    Why I love …
    KT Tunstall on falling in love with Venice Beach: 'It’s bohemian … and a bit barefoot'

    Dolphins jumping and a band playing a song of hers in an Irish bar set the tone for life in this fun and fabulous beachside neighbourhood of Los Angeles

August 2016

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    No re-percussions as 'stolen' tambourine returned to KT Tunstall

    The guilty thief sent the instrument back to the singer in a taxi after she launched an online appeal

January 2015

  • 'Bohemians 4 Soho' occupy 12 Bar Club on Denmark Street - London

    Music fans flood in as squatters throw open doors of Soho live venue

    Activists calling themselves Bohemians 4 Soho occupy bar in central London, which has been shut up ahead of redevelopment

August 2013

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    Fence Records: a fond farewell

    Last week's Green Man festival featured the final gig by Fife's Fence Records collective. It marked the end of an era, writes Laura Barnett

July 2013

  • Lumley and Butterfly

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: June

    Lots of goodies for you this month including; from the world of music: Janelle Monae, Jessie Ware and KT Tunstall; from stage and screen: Joanna Lumley, Mark Rylance and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Plus lots more. Here is a showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer.
    Gallery30

June 2013

  • KT Tunstall at Yo Sushi

    Life on a plate
    KT Tunstall: 'I spent my first music pay cheque on M&S food'

  • KT Tunstall: Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon – review

January 2012

  • Steel Panther In Concert

    The week in music
    The week in music - in pictures

    The week’s highlights from planet pop and beyond, starring Lady Gaga, Lou Reed, Sinead O’Connor, KT Tunstall and more
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