Kalidah
Acoustic / Electro / Electronica / Indie / Trip Hop

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The Band

Guy Schofield - Voice/guitar/guitarsynth/mandolin/programming
Harriet Cole - Voice/keyboards/piano/oboe
James Milne - Drums/percussion
Rachel Casey - Voice/guitar/guitarsynth/mandolin

About us


After Rachel decided she had enough of being penniless, guitarless and almost virginal, she waded hip deep into the internet only to come across a pale shell of a man who said he needed a drinking partner for icebound submarine sessions. They met with promises of carnations and hats and were greeted with confusion, hammering together a band made of feathers, glitter and uncomfortable sexual tension.

And then came Harriet... Arriving in a hail of sparkles and scrawled notes and a handbag made of boys, she caught the squirming tunes by the throat, feeding them one by one through her clever piano fingers.

At the very last minute Kalidah decided to add drums! Planning to use their loud noises to keep the wolves away, they enlisted the help of wolf-scarer James. Unique amongst drummers, James uses subtlety to pacify the angry canines, building a traditional band exactly edispu nwod!

Now Kalidah haunt the quiet ruins of Newcastle upon Tyne, singing at night from high windows and spending their days luring interesting delivery vans into blind alleys. Their pockets are full of half empty gin bottles, their eyes are full of cardboard gin-traps.

NARC magazine described them as
"a band mixing delicate melody and haunting melancholy."
They also felt that "For such apologetically quiet music there's an underlying depth and resonance which stands up to repeated listening."
Which is super of them really.

Kalidah's six-trap EP The Deer and the Felt-Man can be ordered by clicking on their myspace and saying 'Send me a Six Trap EP' in a loud clear voice.
Alternatively, currency may be used.

From time to time they wonder about the pretty videos under their biog. They like the one with the red car especially and wonder what it means.




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