This Is The Kit is the ongoing musical project of British, Paris-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kate Stables (born in Winchester, Hampshire).

This Is The Kit has been in existence since the 00s, when Kate moved to Bristol and started playing and collaborating with local musicians.

Kate sings, plays guitar, banjo, trumpet and percussion, while a cast of carefully hand-plucked friends deliver guitar strums, banjo plucks, hushed horns and electronic textures that sit beneath Stables' easy, earnest lilt. Her long time collaborator and regular live companion Jesse Vernon sometimes contributes guitars, violin and percussion. While on tour, This Is The Kit usually includes Rozi Plain & drummer Jamie Whitby-Coles alongside Kate — but the band is a shape-shifting entity ranging from a female duo with friend Rozi to a psychedelia tinged five electric five-piece.
[Source: Brassland]