Kaki King

Kaki King is a rare performer; she has this unique ability to create this music that stuns the listener with her dexterity of guitar playing. I could tell some of the audience were totally with her and understood what she was trying to convey with her music, but then there some who totally tuned out and her connection was lost with those people.

I was defiantly in the camp of people who appreciated her talent, and loved the fact that she took risks and bent the rules of rock and roll, and by that I meant her songs didn’t follow any of the rules of generic guitar playing; she played with different tunings of the guitar and smashed the fret board and got sounds out of her instrument like nothing I had heard before.

With each piece she played ebbed and flowed and kept the audience on edge and scratching their heads and wondering how she was getting those sounds out of her guitar. Kaki's rapport with the audience was great; she was joking with the crowd throughout the night and telling them how much she loved our country, and she generously donated the sales from her latest EP to the bushfire cause.

It is totally refreshing to know that someone of such a young age is exploring the possibilities of what can be achieved with the guitar; forty years ago Jimi Hendrix blew people’s minds with his unique style of playing, and last night I felt the same way those people back then would have felt when they saw Hendrix play for the first time.

Kaki King has a big career ahead of her; she probably wont reach the mass audience but she seems the kind of performer where not reaching that realm of status wouldn’t bother her. She is a humble performer and engages the audience on a whole different level, I would like to think that these things are the only that matters to her.

The year has only started but Kaki King put on one of the most memorable performances I have seen so far.

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