sometimes singer • songwriter • novelist • podcaster • artist•
Album with
@witheredhand
out April, on
@olirecords
.first single 'Shelf' out now - link below
5.8 billion roughy brought in by music industry . 446 million brought in by uk fishing industry. So why
@RishiSunak
@BorisJohnson
have you ignored the pleas of musicians to be able to play in Europe after Brexit without needing work permit? You COULD have helped us!!!! But NO
@JeremyJHardy
The day before yesterday i was with you,Katie and joy. Singing a favorite song for u and Idrees. We laughed. My love goes out to Betty and Katie. You are just the best and I’ll always be happy we were friends x i can’t believe you are gone. Love you Jeremy Hardy
Nearly every Tory answers a question with...“ what you don’t understand is.....” and there, right there is the contempt, the entitlement, the arrogance!
#JohnsonMustGo
#ToriesOut
This is like smiling at the camera, then eating shit, then saying “yum” while trying not to vomit until the camera turns off!!
@pritipatel
you are a monster
#notinmyname
@MarcusRashford
can you sort this out... the whole UK asking ?
After many years of campaigning, I am delighted the Immigration Bill which will end free movement on 31st December has today passed through Parliament.
We are delivering on the will of the British people.
Worth watching the daphne snd Celeste vid … amazing attitude and balls of steel compared to royal blood.
I was put on between future heads and supergrass at a festival… I told the audience it was for health and safety reasons and their ears were getting a gentle rest……
Last word on Royal Blood: this is how you deal with it, and these poor girls got much, much worse.
(We (
@ArabStrapBand
) met them once and they were lovely. Always liked them. And it turns out they're hard as fuck too. Legends.)
She championed my whole career, I did live sessions and interviews with her for over 20 years . She’d call up just for a chat and she was nothing but wonderful kind funny and generous x I will miss her terribly xx
It can feel like a hard thing not belonging in a genre in music . Pop think im folk , folk think I’m pop.... so i fall down the back of the sofa with the fluff and the pennies.... wAit I’ve found a biscuit... wanna share?
@pepsi
I will NEVER EVER buy from you after watching PEPSI WHERES MY JET. The hideousness of the exec speaking from Pepsi corporate side compared to compassionate and gorgeous humans . A fantastic documentary. John Leonard and Todd Hoffman are still the winners
Does anyone else feel a crisis of confidence of what they’re doing since pandemic? I just can’t seem to get back to where I was. Wondering if it’s a universal thing or just me.
You dont have to like
@jeremycorbyn
. You just have to know that compared to Boris, he’s a good guy and ACTUALLY cares if poor people live or die. Cares for education. Cares about the huge divide of normal people and billionaires. If you hear negativity, think where it’s comefrom
Sorry for yesterdays “goodbye” I tried to leave Twitter… couldn’t find password, found password, deleted account.then got lots of messages asking if I was ok, making me realise that there is good on this as well as awful… so Ive come back and gonna try and just be the good bit
The Mercury Prize One. I wish I could do that all again.
There were Radiohead on one table, Coldplay on another...and this agoraphobic who'd been having panic attacks and stage fright on a table near them. I regret that I didn't enjoy that moment more. It flashed before my eyes.
I can’t actually bear thinking g about
@gidcoe
show not being there… it’s got me through so many evenings and put me into so much good music x
@BBC6Music
is becoming less and less what I want
Hey x look after yourselves at Christmas x find a quiet moment of peace. Watch the birds or the sky or something free or big x to anyone who isn’t having the best time or a bit lonely ...I just want to send you some love and if you want to chat you can dm me x
I used to think I was something special. I don’t anymore. But I do believe that either by teaching someone with more talent than me and inspiring them or by keeping going in the search for a creative breakthrough at a later age and leaving something beautiful is a worthy goal x
a new boxset – Kathryn Williams Anthology. compiled over the past couple of years and it covers her work from Dog Leap Stairs to Hypoxia and everything in-between. Go to to pre order. Unbelievably affordable 20 CDs 2x books
Sometimes i don’t feel enough. And i don’t know about the future or if my life has meaning. We all have these days i guess. Today I’m good. But if you feel a bit like that. I’m here... to say there are good days ahead ... like stepping stones x love to you x
Second night lying here next to my boy in hospital with the most amazing staff. The NHS is the best thing the uk ever made!!! Don’t let this government sell it/ steal it/ ruin it x
I’ve always felt sick seeing an instrument harmed... ( cliched rock and roll blokes bollocks) imagine if he’d of just handed it to someone in audience instead =150 people with the means and will to play and create
I can’t believe I’ve been gigging 20 years. And i still get nervous and i stil mess up and i still get intimidated and i still feel joy. And it still matters .
Only some people get me and my work …And that’s ok. I can’t be someone else …..I have to be me. So the big thing I’m gonna do from now on … is keep going forward x love kath
Tonight we play Bbc radio 4 on loose ends.
@pollypaulusma
and I will be playing a song we wrote together. This is the only place you can hear it apart from our tour. We are starting the tour on the 16 sept in glasgow and finish 15 october in reading. Big hugs x
Same picture …20 years apart at the rendezvous cafe Whitley bay x 1st taken by dean for little black numbers album …. todays by my sister emma for shits and giggles
If I make another record… will you … I mean do you…. I mean is it time? …. So what I’m trying to say is … would you ? ………………………..,..,,..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, *goes into writing room anyway
#KeepGoing
#musicisnotahobby
#creativeliving
Alan McGee was my manager from 2002 to 2005. He’d say to me, "Kath, love, I know people say you’re folk, but you’re not folk. You’re Nirvana Unplugged"
Yesterday was an Emotional and tiring day 5 hours driving ( can’t remember the last time I drove more than 5 miles) and four hours signing to fulfill the hundreds of pre orders of the book!!! I’m blown away by your support!!!
#Novel
#debut
#books
#writing
Some songs I tried to put together for the album just didn’t work. ‘Pale Blue Eyes’ never did. Nirvana’s ‘All Apologies’ did. Making this album was like meeting new people as well as old friends, and bringing them together. The Bee Gees, Kurt Cobain and Ivor Cutlerbrought me back
I spent a week tutoring songwriters instead of playing Glastonbury… unfolding the journey of music and it’s solace. We all want To be accepted. My love goes to
@LewisCapaldi
showing us that our vulnerabilities are a superpower x
Today I gardened in a head scarf and red lipstick imagining that It was the 1940’s and miss marple was going to ask me if I saw anything happening in the village while dead heading the flowers.
It’s finally here, my first ever Christmas album, MIDNIGHT CHORUS!
All original and new songs about this festive season with all its joy, loneliness, innocence and thinking of loved ones.
Listen/buy the album here:
So happy with this gorgeous gold
#DinkedEdition
of my new album Night Drives! It’s lovely to be included in this amazing collective of independent record shops!
+ Limited pressing of 500
+ Gold Coloured Vinyl
+ Exclusive alternate artwork slipcase
+ Numbered Edition
I will be at
#Glastonbury
this weekend x i am there to play one song i wrote for Jeremy Hardy in the comedy tent Saturday in his usual spot x I’ll be camping with his wife. Come say hi.
Teaser of
@edharcourt
snd me playing a song we wrote Called “sequins” on the piano he is playing and the exact same as record from crown electric album. For the full song you’ll have to join my Patreon page www.Patreon/kathrynwilliams or sign up to Ed’s app xxxx
I’ve woken up thinking how weird it is that an advisor held a press conference in the rose garden. Just that fact alone. And weirder how it was like he was in charge with NO sign of a single member of the government ? Isn’t that weird?!?!?
I think my heart can’t take going out and doing this music/ gig/ touring then i do a gig where I feel so connected with audiences hi are gorgeous creatures and the words sing new meanings as the come out and tears fall and I feel part of the world again.
The last track!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
thank you so much x it’s gone so quick x I feel really emotional x. But then music has to mean stuff does
@t
it? Thanks
@Tim_Burgess
for asking and thinking of me xxxx means a lot x
Just dropped my atkin and Taylor into
@curvysounds
in Heaton x walking into a guitar shop and there are three women!! What a thrill. They sell so many interesting instruments and stuff if you are ever in Newcastle you need to get there!!! Tell them I sent you
#local
#shoplocal
If I wanted to do a small solo tour in autumn … what venues would you recommend I play ?… I’m sure there is lots of good places I’ve never played before.. and old friends x xxxxx
What do you do on day off in glasgow? Stay with your music pal and then realise you can wear each other’s T shirts for
#TShirtday
for BBC Radio 6 Music
@kathrynjoseph_
@steve_lamacq
Today is my 18 wedding anniversary to neilleflohic . I’m on tour x he called this morning and before he could say a word I moaned on about work stuff x in car I found a card. He’s the best . I’m the worst xxxx. It’s a perfect pairing
A 16 year old girl gives the speech of her life .. impassioned truth while a toddler president moans he’d get a Nobel prize if the judges were fair! This insane world x change his nappy and put him down for a nap and give that girl the job!
#Greta
Can you listen to someone’s music once you know they’re an utter Dick? ( asking for a friend) same with art...... please discuss
@juderogers
@petepaphides
Getting very excited about this new solo record.... like nothing Ive done before ... but I think you’re gonna like it!
@EdHarcourt
producing. The guy is a genius
#NationalAlbumDay
. Listening to a record in full is like reading a book or watching a film x the songs are in a group for a reason they’re in order for a reason you get a whole world! It’s so easy to miss a slow burner by just going for the hits.
It was really hard to sustain the set and know I wasn’t what they wanted but you get on with it and do the best you can …. Have a cry in the dressing room and move on x
@JuliaHB1
This is a badly informed tweet. I’m afraid it may haunt you one day. Please consider and maybe just research how many women are killed by domestic violence a year.ot will shock you. People shouldn’t be discouraged to call police.
@matthaig1
I needed that x I’ve never been cool. I’m always out of time, thought of as folk music but shunned as they think I’m pop... so I fall down the back of the sofa. But I have found the most wonderful people. Who made me realise I should just be me. Just be kind.
Hello beauties so in anticipation for my Anthology box set release and tour i am doing secret things in studio for your ears sometime next year. It’s fun and lovely being a kid in a garage agAin. That’s all really and thanks for hanging in there with me x i do love you