soothe my soul k.c.

i saw the most distressing thing this afternoon. it was such a beautiful day - cold and clear, but the sun was out to warm us like an outdoor travelling heater. me and a gang of friends decided we would make some delicious snacks and spend the afternoon playing tennis at some cute nearby grass courts at sydney uni.

i was actually super excited, because i have a lot of tennis playing friends, but i'm usually relegated to the sidelines to cheer and drink beer - which isn't entirely bad when you think about it...i make an excellent, if tipsy, mascot.

anyway, today i was welcomed with open arms and i think in the end i wasn't a complete disaster. i don't know how well my sparkly converse sneakers went down as exercise appropriate. and i'm not sure how i feel about being told how funny it was to see me run. i am sure that it was totally awesome that there were twin gingas playing on the court next to us. and i bet you want to know if i'm ever going to get to my musical point.

so game, set and match, various people hopped in cars/on their bikes to part ways when all of a sudden their was this awful crunching sound of one car hitting another and we turned to see that a car indeed had mounted a curb and backed right into another parked car. then without warning, it flew into drive and in a matter of probably only 2, 3 seconds max, it had totally smashed into a lampost that consequently snapped and broke clean in two. if that lampost hadn't been there though, i am 99% sure this car would have gone flying onto paramatta rd.

it was just awful, the driver was in intense shock, his skin was grey, there was blood coming out of his nose and in his mouth. he kept saying he was ok when he was so far from it. no more details, i'm only writing about it in a cathartic effort to stop myself thinking about the whole thing, because it actually made me go into semi-shock and feel sick to my stomach. good in a crisis i am not.

anyway, so we get home and decide we need either a strong drink, or a pot of tea, and given that the sun had gone, the sky had darkened and it was about to pour buckets, we went with the latter. then i decided we needed some nice, comforting music to go with it.

enter k.c. mckanzie. this girl rocks. well not in the musical genre sense - but check out her myspace to listen to a beautiful selection of songs from her 3rd album hammer & nails. k.c. is german and her folk ditties are effortlessly engaging. she had our breathing back to normal and smiles back on our faces in no time. her lyrics have a definite wryness to them, simple and sweet with a sprinkling of dark humour every now and then. her voice is lovely - especially in the ever-so-strained falsetto moments, which somehow work everytime, even though it sounds as if she's not quite nailing them.

k.c. has a new album coming out later in the year, and if you haven't already clicked the vid link at the top of this post, do so now for a katie dazzle super exclusive, and my favourite track off the new album, which will be called dryland. the song is called 'lonely fighter'. and it's for everyone out there who is awesome in a crisis x