Kat Flint

Kat Flint is a Scottish singer-songwriter born in Barbados and raised in Aberdeen. Her first album, 'Dirty Birds' was released in 2008 to critical acclaim.

Biography
Kat Flint is the child of research scientists, born in Barbados but raised in the oil capital of Scotland, Aberdeen. From there she moved down to Edinburgh where she joined the city's acoustic scene with her band gingergreen, who were voted the city's favourite acoustic act in 2004. She also spent six months playing percussion with folk group Scuff, and was in the Edinburgh Sound Collective.

Since then she has moved down to the brightly lit and congestion charged city of London which, she says, is conducive to song writing.

Of her lyrics, she says, "I write lyrics about junkyard prostitutes, life in the fearsome crowd and the fact that your lover is 72.8% water. I was told once that I'm pretty good on guitar 'for a girl'. I wasn't sure if that was a compliment. I am an active campaigner against teenage angst and histrionics in music. I quite like train journeys because they're one of the rare occasions when I can just sit and think."

Music
Gingergreen

Kat Flint's first serious musical project was as a member of Edinburgh acoustic group, Gingergreen, along with Robin Mogandorff and Andrew Thompson. In 2004, Gingergreen won an Acoustic Idols Award for Best Act.

Solo Work

In 2006, Flint released 'The Secret Boy's Club' EP, which included six songs. Her first single, 'Go Faster Stripes', which utilises various household objects in its recording, was released before the EP.

In 2008, Kat followed up with her first full-length album, 'Dirty Birds'. The title of the album refers not only to flying birds, such as pigeons, but other variants of 'birds', such as prostitutes and planes. Many of the songs from the album - 'Ohio', 'Anticlimax' for example - were reworked versions of songs from 'The Secret Boys Club' EP.

The first single from the album, 'Christopher, You Are a Soldier Now', was inspired by her brother's near-enlistment in the British armed forces.

Both single and album have received even further critical acclaim from popular and mainstream critics, notably Steve Lamacq of the BBC, who has called Kat "a great singer-songwriter".

Discography
Go Faster Stripes (Single)

1. Go Faster Stripes

2. Mary (formerly Joseph)

The Secret Boy's Club

1. Fearsome Crowd

2. Ohio

3. Headrush

4. London Lullaby

5. Anticlimax

6. The Blinking

Christopher, You're a Soldier Now (Single)

1. Christopher, You're a Soldier Now

2. Shadow Boxing

Dirty Birds 1. Go Faster Stripes

2. Ohio

3. Anticlimax

4. Lazybones

5. Christopher, You're a Soldier Now

6. The Blinking

7. Saddest Blue Dress

8. Birthday

9. Fearsome Crowd

10. Shotgun Wedding

11. Candyfloss Branches

12. Dirty Birds