Musician, ethnomusicologist, and occasional filmmaker from Jersey (Channel Islands), currently based in Cardiff (Wales).

Vocalist, guitarist, singer-songwriter, composer, producer.

Lead singer and founder of Jèrriais pop folk band/ applied ethnomusicology
project Badlabecques.

PhD in Music, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Kit has over 25 years of broad experience in popular music, music education, and more recently, ethnomusicology. As a singer-songwriter signed to Orange Room Music, Kit’s debut album (2010) was produced by Mark Edwards (Paul Weller, Katie Melua) and Colin Walker (Van Morrison, Art Garfunkel), and partly mixed by BRIT award winning producer Mike Crossey (The Arctic Monkeys, The 1975). Kit’s current band, Badlabecques, are unique in that they sing in the endangered language of Jèrriais. Over the years, he has worked with a range of musicians and genres, from function bands and theatre pit bands, to one-off original projects, to touring with BRIT-nominated soul diva Carleen Andersen and Mercury-nominated Thomas White (Electric Soft Parade). 

As a composer/producer, Kit has worked with Grammy award winning producer Steven Heller, and has recently collaborated with visual artist and filmmaker Penny Andrea and video artist Luke André Jackson, to develop a new audiovisual work, ‘The Lost Dreams’. Exploring drawing as a dynamic temporal process to nurture emotional and neurological healing, this work is the product of a research grant from Arts Council England. It has been shown/installed in a range of locations, including Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin. He is currently writing and producing a children’s album commissioned by L’Office du Jèrriais in Jersey.

As a music lecturer, Kit has taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, where he designed and led a course for the MA in Songwriting. He has also been invited to give guest talks and speak at conferences all over the world, in both English and French, including in Jersey, UK, France, Canada, USA, and Japan.

Kit gained his undergraduate degree at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and received his Masters with distinction at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Kit completed his PhD in Music at Goldsmiths College in 2022, along with a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. His PhD was funded by the UK’s AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council). Kit’s research investigates the ways in which applied ethnomusicology can help revitalise endangered languages, with a focus on the critically endangered language of Jèrriais in his home island of Jersey.