Artist Information Biography Kathleen Haskard - sinner/songwriter/expatriate is a 4th generation native Californian who divides her time between the rooftops of Southeast London and a tipi in a canyon on the Pacific coast in the Santa Monica Mountains above Ventura County Line. Kathleen's new album  DON'T TELL is released on her own Howlin' Hound Records & Nine Mile Records in the USA. A SUSSED and culturally aware musician who passionately believes in the HEALING power of music, latent people power and that the PERSONAL is most definitely political. She WOKE up and smelt the coffee at an early age and grew up to find out that her family tree boasted a mexican folk hero and a RADICAL VISIONARY Irishman who was an active foot soldier in the American labor movement.  In 2006 Kathleen had the honor of singing backing vocals on Neil Young's album LIVING WITH WAR. Touring twice a year in the US and playing gigs/festivals in the UK and the rest of Europe either solo acoustic or with her band The Guilty Preachers she is a force of nature! Her new album Don't Tell is a prowling/pounding melange of delicately carnal, driven, in the moment songs, carved from the inside looking out and delivered from the outside glaring straight into your eyeballs. Recorded in Bristol, London and Hyde Street Studios in San Fransisco, Don't Tell features five tunes penned solo by Kathleen along with a handful of co-writes with Chuck Prophet, Stacey Earle, Toby Slater and Sandy Stewart. The San Fransisco crew of Prophet (Guitars/Bass), Paul Revelli (Drums), Danny Eisenburg (Hammond/Piano), Tom Heyman (Pedal Steel) and JJ Weisler (Gtr) are joined by London's Simon Alpin (Guitars/Bass) and Grand Drive's Julian Wilson contributed organ and vocals. Prophet and Alpin have woken the guilty preacher, smoked his last cigarette and served him up a condemned mans breakfast whilst Kathleen's songs challenge his congregation. These two men have produced an album of casual brilliance, letting the songs rise in the swirling swell of 21st century uncertainty. Kathleen's lyrics have deep connections with the latent sexual and emotional paradoxes all around us. She is blessed with the lateral insight to pluck the beauty out of the brackish backwash. Relationship dynamics are turned inside out, meanings spun on their head,  political warlord threads teased,de-lacqered and laid out naked in the street. Pregnant silences are decoded and given resonance. Roaring, yet fragile, strong and with feeling, the mysterious beauty of this album unfolds in the listening....  Bug Music saw the songwriting jewels glinting in Kathleen's  eye and welcomed her deft touch and panoramic vision and signed her to coincide with the release of her first album INTO THE DEEP in 1998. Her co-writers include Chuck Prophet, Nashville based Stacey Earle, Texan songstress Sandy Stewart (Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Tina Turner, Belinda Carlisle, Bow Wow Wow) and in Los Angeles Eric Lowen & Dan Navarro (The Bangles, Pat Benetar, The Temptations, The Four Tops). Her cuts include a song on Stacey Earle's debut album, Simple Gearle. The song 'Losers Weep', features Steve Earle on backing vocals. There's also 'My Own Way Of Doin' Things' on Lowen & Navarro's, Scratch at the Door. Kathleen has tuned up and asked for more guitar in the monitors with Chuck Prophet, Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart, Lowen & Navarro, David Poe, Jim White, Malcolm Holcombe, Bob Frank & John Murry, Steve Earle, Ed Harcourt, Suzy Boguss, David Lindley, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John Renbourn, The Tiny, Clyde Stubblefield, Glen Tilbrook, Nick Harper and Robyn Hitchcock. She has also flexed her throat chakra & worn her songs on her sleeve at the Edinburgh Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Mexico's International Guitar Festival at Zihuatanejo and Queille in France, BuFest, Durango, SXSW, NXNW, the Folk Alliance and Texas Rock Fest and is booked to play the infamous Glastonbury Festival this summer! Instrumentation kathleen - vocals/guitar Simon Alpin - guitar/lap steel/mandolin/harmonica Gary Johnston - drums/vocals Barry Payne - bass Chris Rushton- guitars/keys/hammond *tours solo or with full band* Discography DON'T TELL - album INTO THE DEEP - album (debut) tracks from both albums have received radio airplay and streaming in: USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Mexico, Colombia, Russia, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Germany & Australia. Links http://www.kathleenhaskard.com Kathleen Haskard My Myspace place