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KT Tunstall
@KTTunstall
LA-based Scotch Yeller. I‘m here for the swearing. New single 'Century Trail' out now!

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Anyone honestly had an issue with me calling this guy a cunt?!
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Jacob Rees-Mogg says that women who seek abortion after rape are committing a “second wrong” - @zoe_beaty the-pool.com/news-views/pol
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Hey to anyone who feels uncomfortable being around a woman breastfeeding in public: leave the area until they are done and/or until you can handle a mature level of life as a human. Babies and new mothers are way ahead of you in the give-a-fuck line.
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I went to fill up the window washy water in the car and when I opened the bonnet, I found a full-tilt rodent nest on top the car battery with an EN SUITE BATHROOM where all the little shites were piled around the battery fluid cap. What the fuck. It was like #Sylvanians on crack.
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...stirring up unnecessary public beef between women for popularity is the opposite of all those things and perpetuates the status quo. 3/3
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Voting needs to be lowered to 16yrs. Young people proved their engagement & should have a say in a gvt in power until they are 20yrs old!
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The Universe has conspired to deliver me a most badass New Years Eve for 2022… I am thrilled to share I’ll be headlining TIMES SQUARE BABY!! 🗽🎆 I’ll be singing as the ball drops!! My bucket list just got shorter 🥳🙏🏼
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Agreed ‘Business as usual’ has got us into a right fucking mess. I’m with 🌏💙 #ExctinctionRebellion
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Strongly disagree. Climate change is an existential threat to humanity. We’re not doing nearly enough to stave it off. Increase the protests, expand the civil disobedience, demand a new economic and social order that protects human survival #ExtinctionRebelion twitter.com/SadiqKhan/stat…
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Had a glorious piece of fish from a chippy in Edinburgh at 1am this morning and the girl says “it’s massive” and I’m like lol how big can it be, and she hands it over and it’s about a quarter of my own body length. Honestly, it was maybe a fucking deep fried serpent. Magnificent.
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How about instead of gender reveal parties, you just have a party to celebrate that you’ve realized that as a potential parent, you’re going to try and not be a twat.
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Confuses me when grumpy fucks give it ‘oh, album to promote then?!’ when we musicians appear on TV or get interviewed for opinion pieces - OF COURSE we fucking do, that’s how we make a living dullard. Music doesn’t sell itself. In 2019, it‘s fighting to sell much at all.
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I just bought a new loop pedal on eBay as Wee Bastard (No.4?) is bashed in, and the guy mails me back and goes, “are you KT Tunstall?! You’re why I bought this thing but I couldn’t work it out and now you’re buying it off me. Weird.” HA! #discount
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Hey folks, Sending love & thanks in advance to those of you who will have to wait a little longer until I see you, but I promise I *will* see you soon - in rude (and rocking) health! 🙏🏼⚡️ Much love, KT x
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Hey, musicians who spent 10 years training for free to get good enough to have a career which now employs others & positively feeds collective wellbeing; remember when people told you to get a ‘real job’? Those people lack a basic understanding of a life well lived.
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. If you are the organiser of something, and you don’t WANT a situation to change, and you put fuck all effort into it, then no shit it’ll take years. Sorry, couldn’t find any pics of us playing guitars. Maybe we should find some so we can ‘pick them up’ eh?
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There should be a dedicated word for the feeling when you put a load of laundry on and immediately find a dirty sock on the floor nearby.
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£50m in support could save a £5.2 *BILLION* per year industry, which is right now facing an ‘extinction-level event’. #LetTheMusicPlay
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"97% of grass roots venues cannot stay afloat with social distancing" @KTTunstall tells #BBCBreakfast why she's backing the plea to government to support the music and live venues industry. More here: bbc.in/3dTbyPm
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Dear , so disappointed to read this. Guilty. Not even on the sex offenders register. I’m usually proud of how Scotland conducts itself on important issues. What can be done? This is no justice for the child, her family, or other kids he may go on to abuse. #action
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Christopher Daniel, 18, was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 6-y-o girl. "Exceptional circumstances", thought to be the Glasgow dentist's "middle-class background, strong educational attainment and career prospects" mean he will not go to jail thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotla
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Literally every time I use a public bathroom with multiple stalls I want to see a survey that shows which toilets get chosen the most wtf is my brain
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Ahhh Ed, I am a proud Mum 😂 LOL Incredible to see where took the humble loop pedal, and thankings for the shout out! ❤️🙏🏼🔁 #loopers
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Who enjoyed Saturday's show with the extraordinarily talented @edsheeran?✨ He chose a fantastic selection from the archive, including @KTTunstall, @Skepta and @boniver🙌 Plus we had new music from @BiffyClyro, @GlassAnimals and @PipMillett🎶 The full episode is on @BBCiPlayer
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I will never understand why people give a fuck about who other people choose to love & marry. Do what you want, the bigots will die off. 🌈🙏🏼
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ARE YOU EVEN READY FOR THIS?! London called LA, and who was on the line??! Only the actual Mr inviting me to join #thecroonersessions !! Enjoy this slice of heaven 💕 ...Even when you’re in lockdown #nooneputsbabyinthecorner ...
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Aw today I get to sing with one of my favourite human beings @kttunstall we had a pleasure of touring together a couple of years ago but we never got to sing together. Thanks to #thecroonersessions we do now
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What I now have to do every time I enter my studio until the glass stickers arrive. Fuckin nearly brained myself twice walking straight into the door. Ps. The dog also did it once.
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I’ve sat in the deepest, warmest gratitude at the exact same time as a really difficult physical place these last couple of weeks & there is SO much love here. Thank you. Let’s gift it to each other all the damn time. ❤️🙏🏼 Still half deaf, still singin’ x #HappyHolidays
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Well...wow. I’ve been preparing for the day this was ready to share, and...here it is! I took a leap of faith & let the team take me on the most extraordinary adventure... Tune in at 9pm BST on 1st July to watch my life change FOREVER!!! ❤️💫
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Yeah, just got me reminiscing over that time when bankers were told to get different jobs when they willfully fucked everyone. Oh no wait, they got given loads of money.
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Currently holding in the Top 10 in the midweek UK album charts…thank you SO much music friends!! Albums FOREVER!! 7 pretty crazy years of making a trilogy, and here I am at the end of it 🖤🙏🏼 #NUT is out, I bloody love it, hope you do too xxx
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To the cries of “multi-millionaire ‘stars’ should put their hands in their own pockets” - what we are asking is that government recognises that live music is as important to British people as sport. The numbers say that it is. #LetTheMusicPlay
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3 times on stage tonight, I really nearly blew a snot bubble. I couldn’t help thinking as I played...it could have been really big, and impressive even, and you can’t stop playing, no free hand. So there it would stay, the coloured lights dancing upon it... 🧼
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It feels like tweeting anything is throwing booze on a tyre fire, so I’m sending love. I keep wanting to burst into tears. May this patriarchal era of sociopathy and wealth/growth rabies be healed by wiser, sweeter nature-loving, coding genius kids.
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This has made me angry. I want to shout a lot of things. But what I’ll offer is that if everyone else had ignored the gvt instructions and behaved like this, there would be a fuckload more dead people. Reprehensible. It was pretty much *entirely* wrong
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I know how ill coronavirus makes you. It was entirely right for Dom Cummings to find childcare for his toddler, when both he and his wife were getting ill.
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Had a flashback to library cards yesterday. The little muted coloured tickets tucked into the insides of the books, all the previous names & dates written on them, that amazing CLACK sound of the manual date stamp in the quiet of the room...what a mental trajectory we are on...
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I just opened a letter from a beautiful fan who wrote: “Your lyrics remind me that I love myself.” Beyond grateful ❤️ Music heals.
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Well f*ck me, I’m off to do a gig. Vertical audience, all on their balconies while I play on a roof opposite 😎🤘🏼 This is a picture of me trying to remember how to be a person.
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Shout out to anyone else who just had a gig involving what I will call ‘cunty stage bounce’ where the more you move the more your mic stand oscillates wildly back & forth, meaning that by the time you reach the ballad in the setlist yer fucking front teeth have been knocked out
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The huge earning UK music acts already inject *shitloads* back into to the economy. Not just tax, but local economies & a vast ecosystem of jobs. There ARE no massive UK acts anymore if there is no grassroots infrastructure to grow them. Every one of them comes through that..
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Just pointing out that if someone told me this was a still from the new season of Handmaid’s Tale, I would not question that.
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I was told this by someone when I was trying to make it as a musician. I would have contributed drastically less in all ways if I’d actually listened to this kind of uninformed, closed-minded bullshit. Pretty sure I’ve paid back considerably more taxes than this clown Headmaster.
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“Music is a hobby, it is not a career. It will not be supported by the school. I will not allow children to leave school to take graded exams. We are only supporting children’s learning.” Unacceptable comment from a headteacher. theguardian.com/education/2019
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Isn’t it so ace that is on Twitter. 🙏🏼❤️
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Start doing something good. It could be just cleaning out your old closet, or calling your Mom and give her a pep talk. Just anything you can do that is outside of yourself. It will make you feel a bit better. And then you will know what you have to do. Keep doing good things.
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I’m deeply proud that I am becoming progressively more shit at self-promoting social media. But I will keep trying to share things ❤️
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