Since relocating to her father’s native Scotland in 2020, Queensland singer-songwriter Leah Chynoweth-Tidy has been wowing brand-new northern hemisphere audiences as Kissing The Flint. She is now firing up for a much-anticipated home soil return from January to March 2024, showcasing a new album in a sizzling summer of live performance dates on her ‘Fringe of Rooms’ Australian tour.
A big tour highlight will be a main stage spot alongside stellar artists Vika & Linda at #AgnesBluesFest in February. Leah met Vika on stage during a shared Rockwiz 2010 regional tour guest spot, an unforgettable experience that inspired Leah to kick-start her own music career. It’s a dream come true for Leah to find herself now sharing a bill with the legendary Bull sisters.
Leah is a multi-award nominated singer-songwriter who created performing project ‘Kissing The Flint’ (‘creating a spark’) to focus on her original songs and connect their powerful energies with a global audience. Her first award nomination landed in 2020 for Australian Celtic Song of the Year and the recognition momentum for her songwriting has continued to snowball ever since.
The Australian tour is set to showcase the February 2024 release of the sophomore Kissing The Flint album ‘Standing on the Fringe of Rooms’, which is the much anticipated follow-up to Leah’s 2019 debut EP ‘Unconditionality’.
‘We’re getting the Aussie band back together and releasing a blues-rock album! My bass player husband Ken and I haven’t made music in the same room with our guitarist Laurie Rayment and drummer Louis Parish since 2020 when we moved to the UK, so we’re all raring to go. This is a long overdue reunion, we can’t wait to rock out together and share all of this new music with our Australian fans!’
The new album will showcase Leah’s songwriting versatility, encompassing the shimmery surf-rock ‘Dune Girl’ shortlisted for the 2022 Australian Songwriting Assocation Inc (ASAI) awards, the call-to-arms for the arts anthem ‘100 Or Less’ , battle of the sexes showdown ‘Gunslinger Love ’ and an as-yet unreleased track of global hope ‘All We Can Do’, which has already earned a Top 10 Indie-Rock finalist place in the ASAI awards and a commended in the UK Songwriting Competition.
Authenticity and emotion flow through Leah’s connective songwriting and empowering live performances, fueled by a powerful, versatile voice. Song themes flow from an adventurous spirit with crystal clarity of message and vivid imagery drawn from experience, empathy and imagination.
From one mesmerising moment to the next, this dynamic performer moves easily from roots beauty to sultry rock raunch in explorations of the human condition, a genuine desire to empower others and a lifelong affinity with the natural world.
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