KT Tunstall Chats to ilikemusic.com

KT: We both make very different types of music, but in his case there was a growing interest in Scottish based bands like his and he'd been doing that for ages. Their style hadn't changed because of the fashion. They're a great band and he's a brilliant writer. For both of us I think it was really good timing. I got the feeling that really in general the pop idol TV horror music programme has become completely saturated now and I think people are just really fed up seeing untalented people becoming famous and dominating the charts. It's just rubbish, it's not real or genuine.

The surge of quite retro bloke bands with guitars was a really good thing to happen, because it's about real music that people were writing themselves, so Craig was part of that thing. People wanted raw energetic genuine music again, and I think that's probably why I've done alright as well. Because, there's actually not a lot of girls who are doing raw energetic, and that's why I got Steve Osbourne to do the album, because he'd just done a lot of bloke rock, from Placebo and New Order to U2, Elbow, Doves and The Happy Mondays and no pop girls, and I wanted someone to get that edge into what I was doing.
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