Kathryn Williams: New Single & 2010 Tour Dates

UK folk songstress Kathryn Williams has announced that '50 White Lines', the first single to be taken from her new album will hit stores on February 8. 'The Quickening', the forthcoming full-length, is due February 22.

Speaking about the new single the songwriter said: “I was talking about all the nights of travel you have on tour and how you are always leaving a city and watching it behind you. I said that I imagined I was on the run, and that’s how this Bonnie and Clyde song came about. When I think of the song, it’s like a film. A close shot of two faces looking ahead to a border where they will be safe from what they are escaping. The adrenalin, the fast heart beat, thoughts flashing like car lights passing by ‘lights on the dashboard darting like fish/ if I can drive through this town I can vanish’.”

So that's it straight from the folk-horse's mouth as it were, no offence intended. In other news KW will also be making appearances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's Southbank as a special guest of Robyn Hitchcock on January 30 and at The Barbican and Chris Difford's (of Squeeze fame) 'Songs In The Key Of London' event on March 9. To view the full list of her UK dates, carry on reading until you see the title 'Kathryn Williams 2010 UK Tour Dates', then read a bit more.

Kathryn Williams 2010 UK Tour Dates
January 30 LONDON - QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL (in support of Robyn Hitchcock)
February 21 BIRMINGHAM - THE GLEE CLUB
February 22 BRIGHTON - KOMEDIA
February 23 BRISTOL - THE TUNNELS
March 1 MANCHESTER - BAND ON THE WALL
March 2 GLASGOW - KING TUTS
March 3 NEWCASTLE - LIVE THEATRE
March 6 LONDON - PURCELL ROOM
March 9 LONDON - THE BARBICAN

Check out our live review of Kathryn Williams in October 2009