S10E9: KT Tunstall joins the Rockonteurs
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt welcome KT Tunstall to the show.
KT talks about her early musical influences having moved to an America as a young child, growing up adopted in a house where very little music was listened to but discovering that her biological parents were music obsessives. KT also talks about her breakout appearance on ‘Later’ with Jools Holland and the 20th anniversary of her multi-million selling debut album ‘Eye to the Telescope’ that is re-released on October 31st and includes 3 new tracks.
You can buy the album and find out more here: https://www.kttunstall.com/
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| 0:00.0 | If you like listening to Rockonteurs, then we would love you to subscribe to us permanently. |
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| 0:09.6 | Hello, Gary. |
| 0:10.6 | Hello, Guy. |
| 0:11.5 | We've got to talk about Dave Ball, who's passed away this week. |
| 0:15.3 | Yes. |
| 0:16.0 | Because there weren't many duos, were there, before SoftSell? |
| 0:20.3 | No, you're right. It kind of started in New Fashion Lee. You're right. Peter and Lee. But it's sort of, and they had certain similarities, I think, you know, as a sort of art. Yeah. Although Dave and Mark were very, very different people, yeah. Yeah, Dave was definitely, Dave always looked like Mark's bouncer, didn't he? That was right, which he said himself, didn't he? Yeah. I know, but then Dave also, he went off to work with my sort of neighbor, the brilliant Richard Norris, who's a Louisian now. That did swamp thing, didn't they? |
| 0:55.0 | That's right, yeah. |
| 0:56.8 | And that Western thing. I saw soft sell. |
| 0:58.8 | Really early days. |
| 1:00.3 | I mean, I didn't know who they were because it was before Tainted Love, but it was |
| 1:04.7 | at Crox in Raleigh, where I saw Depeche Mode. |
| 1:08.6 | In fact, Depeche Mode was supporting Soft Cell that day I went down. Because weren't they both Stivo? No, soft cell was Steveau, wasn't it? That's right, yes. And Crox was a... Crox at Raleigh, was that night that I saw them on. That was a kind of Steve O' Knight. You know, he ran it. |
| 1:28.6 | Why were you down in rally? |
| 1:30.0 | You're well off your manner, mate. |
| 1:45.9 | No, we did it as a sort of like a busman's holiday really down to another new romantic club. Actually, I think we'd just had a hit with a cut long story short. and we were going down there just on a kind of, you know, like kings used to do in medieval times when they would, you know, |
| 1:52.0 | they'd win a great battle or war and then they'd parade themselves around the country, you know, |
| 1:57.5 | picking up, uh, did you sort of parade the losers? Yeah, you're sort of slaves in front of you. |
| 2:01.5 | But anyway, I mean, uh, Geran, Duran had to walk in front of you. |
| 2:07.6 | Well, I think, to be honest, if it wasn't for Dave and Mark, |
| 2:09.7 | I don't think you would have got the Pet Shop Boys. |
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