Kitty Daisy & Lewis

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
Background information
Origin	London
Genres	Rockabilly, jazz-fusion, ska
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Sunday Best

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are a British five-piece band fronted by the siblings of the Durham family. Their music is influenced heavily by R&B, swing, jump blues, country and Western, blues, Hawaiian and rock 'n' roll. They are all multi-instrumentalists playing guitar, piano, banjo, lapsteel guitar, harmonica, double bass, ukulele, drums, trombone, xylophone and accordion between them.

Kitty Durham is the youngest of the group and primarily sings and plays drums, harmonica, ukulele, banjo, trombone and guitar. Daisy Durham, the eldest, primarily sings and plays drums, piano, accordion and xylophone. Lewis Durham sings and plays guitar, piano, banjo, lapsteel and drums. He collects and plays/DJ's 78rpm records and has built a home studio which consists of antique recording equipment such as 8-track tape machines and vintage BBC and RCA microphones. Kitty, Daisy, & Lewis do not use computers or any digital format during the recording process.

They have opened for Coldplay, Razorlight, Richard Hawley, Jools Holland, and others.

The band are signed to BBC Radio 1 DJ and Bestival curator Rob da Bank's label, Sunday Best, who released their second single "Mean Son of a Gun", a song originally cut by Johnny Horton in the 1950s, with the B-side "Ooo Wee" which they first heard on a 78rpm record sung by Louis Jordan. This was released on 45rpm, CD and a limited edition 78rpm vinyl. The tracks were recorded at home. The vinyl was also cut by Lewis using his own equipment at The Exchange Mastering Studios, which is owned and run by his father Graeme.

On 30 May 2011, Smoking in Heaven was released on CD and vinyl (double LP and 78rpm album), also on Sunday Best.

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis have supported artists such as Jools Holland, Mika, Billy Bragg, Stereophonics, Mark Ronson and Razorlight at London's Earls Court Arena.

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