Whitney K

Booking Agent : Ricky Biondetti & Federico Zanatta

Whitney K is the wandering stalwart Konner Whitney, a Whitehorse Yukon resident who has spent time in Vancouver, Montreal, Burnaby and Los Angeles. We met the character in 2016 through his intoxicating 4-track recorded manifesto ‘Goodnight’, a head on collision into 24 hours of illusioned romance and modern day escapism.

2021: aptly titled ‘Good Morning’ is the opening track on ‘Two Years’, a different cracker, a deliberate record about transformation, where to put it simply, Whitney K has arrived. Enlisting the aid of main collaborator and bandmate Josh Boguski, the focus has been shifted, folklore and realism becoming reckoning and truthfulness, what was outsider folk is now political poetry, life in motion delivered through a freeway ridden baritone voice that transforms the mundane into extraordinary. Written with a completely different mindset and a conscious effort to break with the traditions of a corrupt, hypocritical, and hateful society/lineage, Konner’s pen is precise and daring, uniting the earnestness of Willie Nelson and the comedy relief of Harry Nilsson on the beautiful ‘Me Or The Party #165’, or when painting Canada’s colonial past and heartland image on the primitive rock’n’roll anthem ‘Trans-Canada Oil Boom Blues’. There is no avoidance, no excuses, whether your self portrait in the mirror resembles a five dollar caricature sold on a boardwalk, the John Cale-esque opener ‘Good Morning’, or whether you learn you are worthy of love like on the poignant vignette ‘Maryland’, the beautifully arranged album closer that echoes Tin Pan Alley with Lou Reed’s grit.

Fast forward to 2022:in May 13th Maple Death releases Hard To Be A God. Now based in Montreal, once again Konner Whitney is accompanied by friend, musician and all-hands-on-deck collaborator Joshua Boguski and by multi-instrumentalist Avalon Tassonyi.

Don’t ya know it’s hard to be a god. No reason to sugar coat it, what you’re getting is peak Whitney K, poetry in motion and masterful writing where words, harmony, arrangements all dance in the same direction, flowing through songs about change and memory. A voice as an instrument.

 
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Tourdates

Date City Venue Country
31/08/23 London The Lexington United Kingdom
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01/09/23 Newcastle Upon Tyne Lubber Fiend United Kingdom
03/09/23 Larmer Tree Gardens End of the Road Festival United Kingdom
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04/09/23 Birmingham Hare & Hounds United Kingdom
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05/09/23 Hull Adelphi United Kingdom
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06/09/23 Leeds Hyde Park Book Club United Kingdom
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07/09/23 Portsmouth The Loft United Kingdom
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09/09/23 Asten-Heudsen Misty Fields Festival Netherlands
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10/09/23 Utrecht Tivolivredenburg Netherlands
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12/09/23 Praha Meet Factory Czech Republic
13/09/23 Brno Kabinet Múz Czech Republic
14/09/23 Berlin 8mm Bar Germany
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15/09/23 Brussels Botanique Belgium
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16/09/23 Appeldorn Gigant Netherlands
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