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THE BiTS INTERVIEw: KK Hammond
KK Hammond is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. She
chooses to live a rural life and is is by nature a ‘backwoods’
person. She is an inventive songwriter and shares the
musical space filled by ghoulies and ghosties and lang-
leggedy beasties, with occasional forays in to the world of
revenge filled ‘spaghetti’ westerns (with a side of macabre),
even venturing into the world of movie making.
Ian McKenzie spoke to her on the telephone at her rustic
retreat.
KKH: Hello, is that Ian?
BiTS: It is indeed, yes. Kris, nice to speak to
you.
KKH: Lovely to speak to you. Thank you so
much for calling me.
BiTS: It's my pleasure. I'm pleased to see
that things seem to be moving for you. You've
got yourself an agent and so on and so on and
so forth, that sort of thing.
KKH: Yeah, it makes life a little bit easier
because otherwise you end up doing all the
jobs of a label, and it's absolutely exhausting.
BiTS: Well, you seem to be doing an awful
lot. I mean, I've been looking at the film this
afternoon, the video on YouTube, and I'm
hugely impressed by it.
KKH: Thank you so much. I really appreciate
that. I do love film, but it's one of those
things, it’s a time constraint, isn't it? And that
was me, I think, biting off a little bit more
than I could really chew [chuckles]. That was
a really big project and that took probably
from the conceptualising it to completion, it
was like a couple of years. So I don't know
that I'll be doing anything that huge again