{{Short description|Australian musical artist}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox musical artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Jane Kitto | honorific_suffix = | image = Jane Kitto Photo by Heikki Sarkala April 14 2018.jpg | caption = Jane Kitto Photo by Heikki Sarkala April 14, 2018 | image_upright = | image_size = 250px | landscape = | alt = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Jane Maree Kitto | alias = Kitto, Jane Kitto Andersson | birth_date = | birth_place = | origin = Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | genre = Alternative rock, Psychedelic rock, Acoustic Rock | occupation = Music Artist, songwriter, vocalist, record producer, vocal trainer | instrument = Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Melotron, Percussion | years_active = 1991 – present | label = Right Recordings UK,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rightrecordings.org/perfect-blue-sky|title=rightrecordings|website=rightrecordings.org}}</ref> Scarecrow Music Group Sweden,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scarecrowgroup.com/?page_id=17#toggle-id-1|title=Scarecrow Music Group – Recordings|website=scarecrowgroup.com|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=6 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006113450/http://www.scarecrowgroup.com/?page_id=17#toggle-id-1|url-status=dead}}</ref> Independent owned Whosjack Music, Mushroom Records Australia | website ={{URL|youtube.com/@JaneKittosingersongwriter}} | notable_instruments = | module = | module2 = | module3 = }} '''Jane Kitto''' is an Australian songwriter, singer and musician who is professionally known by the artist name Kitto. Her music mainly consists of alternative rock and has recorded 7 albums, 3 EP's and several compilations. She is also co-writer and vocalist together with husband Pna Andersson in their psychedelic classic rock band Perfect Blue Sky. Both reside in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Kitto began her music career when signed to Mushroom Records in 1991 and has since travelled throughout over 35 countries performing at various festivals in Europe alongside remote locations such as Svalbard North Pole, Tahiti, Robben Island and was the first Australian artist to perform live in ex-Soviet country of Belarus. Kitto has appeared on various compilations and singles, as well as live albums and soundtracks and featured in the Australian edition of 'Who's Who of Rock & roll' 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_cda&q=kitto,+jane&fq=fm:cda|title=Results for 'kitto, jane' > 'CD audio' [WorldCat.org]|website=worldcat.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9868646|title=Who's who of Australian rock|first1=Chris|last1=Spencer|first2=Paul|last2=McHenry|first3=Zbig|last3=Nowara|date=5 October 2017|publisher=Noble Park, Vic. : Five Mile Press|via=Trove}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/music/result?q=jane+kitto|title = Searching}}</ref> Alongside her own work, Kitto has recorded, written and performed with established songwriters such as Vanda & Young, Andrew McMillan<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dtc.nt.gov.au/arts-and-museums/northern-territory-library/library-collections/personal-papers/andrew-mcmillan|title=Andrew McMillan|first=Northern Territory|last=Government|date=4 February 2016|website=dtc.nt.gov.au|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=14 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314130203/https://dtc.nt.gov.au/arts-and-museums/northern-territory-library/library-collections/personal-papers/andrew-mcmillan|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Billy Thorpe and featured as a vocalist with Big Brother and the Holding Company,<ref name="Dagens Nyheter">{{cite web|url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/i-janis-joplins-fotspar-musikalisk-trivsel-med-omstartat-band/|title=I Janis Joplins fotspår. Musikalisk trivsel med omstartat band. – DN.SE|date=9 September 2006}}</ref> She tours both as a solo performer and together with Perfect Blue Sky.
==Background and career==
===Childhood and early years=== Jane Maree Kitto was raised in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood. She later grew up in the Yarra Valley region of Wandin North Victoria. Kitto began playing the guitar at the early age of seven, and participated as a contestant in a children's national television variety show Young Talent Time. At the age of 18 she performed her first paid concert for $40 and a cheese platter. In early adulthood, she joined the Royal Australian Navy, and later worked as an auto electrical mechanic. She was writing songs in her spare time and her first national airplay was an advertisement jingle 'Stepping out in Style' for Opal Menswear, which caught the attention of a Melbourne booking agent Terry Blamey.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kittorock.com/biography/|title=Bio – Kitto|website=kittorock.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.femail.com.au/kitto.htm|title=KITTO|website=femail.com.au}}</ref>
In the late 1980s Kitto was doing session vocals and studio work for Australian bands, The Gypsies, Cattletruck and Chantoozies. Kitto also toured with Billy Miller's Gypsies ''Women in the kitchen'' for more than a year including TV appearances on the popular Australian TV show Hey Hey It's Saturday.
In 1991, she began her career as a solo rock artist when she was signed to Mushroom Records (Australia), along with John Annas, her co-writer and drummer at the time, and together they released a single, ''Blind Lead the Blind''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/k10391au|title=Kitto – Blind Lead The Blind}}</ref> She appeared in the Australian edition of ''Who's Who of Rock & roll'' (Moonlight Publishing, 1993) and her songs featured in the TV series 'Home and Away'. However, as Kitto wanted to avoid the female rock cliché and pursue her career as a freelance songwriter, it eventually led to a parting of the ways between her and Mushroom Records.
She continued her career as an independent artist with The Harbour Agency, performing at various clubs in Sydney, and also opening up for artists such as Billy Thorpe, Diesel, Ian Moss, Richard Clapton, Jon Stevens, Mark Seymour and Nathan Cavaleri.
Kitto also encountered a surprise meeting with Metallica's tour manager Tony Smith from Q-Prime Mgmt and shook hands with James Hetfield himself who had scouted two of her shows and surprised her with tickets to Metallica's Sydney concert in the summer of 1994. They both gave her a Q-Prime business card to pursue contact which she lost somewhere in her travels and had never forgotten since.
Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter (Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers) spotted her in a solo show in Sydney one evening and invited her to join him in the US to play and co-write songs. She moved to Los Angeles in 1994, and performed in various music clubs, including Whisky a Go Go and The Roxy Theatre, but when her visa expired she returned to Australia.
===1995–2004===
1995 Kitto recorded her first independent EP ''20 Jacksonia''. She was then invited to travel to Europe which included an appearance on a Swedish TV show, 'Good Morning Sweden' TV4 performing ''Jason'', a song about a street musician whom she developed a friendship jamming alongside him on the streets of Sydney after her shows had finished bringing alongside her audience entourage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyQgGravJRg&list=PL35D3E0744B1409E0|title=Kitto live "JASON" TV 4 Stockholm Sweden|last=Kitto Flowerrock 1 (AUS/SWE)|date=5 April 2008|via=YouTube}}</ref>
Kitto began spending more time around Scandinavia under the guidance of booking agent and later manager Jörgen Wiking who had her performing at various Nordic festivals<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nojestorget.se/Kitto-9342.html|title=Kitto|website=nojestorget.se|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=6 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006112245/https://nojestorget.se/Kitto-9342.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> e.g. Västervik Visfestivalen, Peace and Love, Midtfyn Festival in Denmark, Puistoblues in Finland and The Scandinavian Guitar Festival. She also joined the bill with numerous touring acts such as Joey Tempest(Europe) and Wilson Pickett and also made a guest appearance on Sweden's Triple & Touch TV show. She recorded an EP titled ''Jane Kitto'', of which her single ''Mary'' and ''Vimmi K'' received national exposure on SR Swedish radio and television.
1997–99 Kitto toured with her live shows mainly in Germany and France with her new band Baby Porcelain along with US co-writer Tim Tate and French drummer Frank Bessard. They performed at Festival De Guitar De Montauroux, Bremen Festival, Sinkkasten Frankfurt, Théâtre de Verdure Nice 10th birthday gala for Guitar Maniac, Festival Haut De Cagnes, Brianconnet Rock, Lé Reservoir Paris, La Haut Festival, Beausoleil Théâtre, Dans l'Festival, M Daner Bonson Festival, Le Mas Puget sur argens as support to Sinclair and RTL2 Radio. Baby Porcelain released the CD ''Umbilically Yours'' in 1999.
Kitto's first solo album ''Princess of Tragedy'' was launched 2002. The title single ''Busdriver'' reached number one on the Sweden's Spray Charts and gained high rotation with Australia's ABC Triple J networks and various other radio stations. 'Busdriver' was co-written and performed with saxophonist Kellie Santin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/41600744|title=Princess of tragedy|first=Jane|last=Kitto|date=5 October 2017|publisher=Trove}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c36g8_1ltdY&list=PL35D3E0744B1409E0|title=Kitto – Album Launch Princess of Tragedy 2002|last=Kitto Flowerrock 1 (AUS/SWE)|date=9 August 2007|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjeXNj_c_oY&list=PL35D3E0744B1409E0|title=Kitto Princess of Tragedy Release Party Part 1|last=Kitto Flowerrock 1 (AUS/SWE)|date=12 April 2008|via=YouTube}}</ref>
In 2002 Kitto participated in a Swedish TV gala ABBA the Tribute (Svt), performing alongside Micke Rickfors and Mats Ronander as well as Dionne Warwick.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19BlEEtr2G8|title=Abba Tribute Finale Dionne Warwick Thank you for the music AllStars|last=Baccara2000|date=4 January 2013|via=YouTube}}</ref> On the show, she sang two Abba's classic songs, ''On and on and On'' and ''Summer Night City''. Afterwards she appeared at Nice Jazz Festival supporting Jacque Higgins followed by a series of shows at Longyearbyen, a town based at the North Pole, with Swedish drummer Mårten Ronsten and Weine Johansson (Baltimoore) on bass. Kitto made a journey to Robben Island just off coast South Africa in 2004, the home of former political prisoner Nelson Mandela and performed a song titled 'Toward the sun' which she and co writer Robert Gale had written based on Mandela's book 'Long walk to freedom'. Kitto also performed the song live on Bush Radio in Cape Town.
===2005–2013===
The second album ''Precious Junk'', was released in 2005. The single track ''Catalina Dreaming'' was collaborated alongside Andrew McMillan, the author of the book Catalina Dreaming. 'Precious Junk' featured airplay by Triple J and various radio stations throughout Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgovEIvi5to|title=Kitto – Asylum TV IMelb Australia 2003|last=Kitto Flowerrock 1 (AUS/SWE)|date=9 August 2007|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.australianmusic.info/cd-reviews/kitto-catalina-dreaming|title=Kitto – Catalina Dreaming|first=Geoff|last=Currey|website=australianmusic.info}}</ref> Later that year she was approached by John Lomax III, who invited her to perform in Nashville US, Tennessee's Australian Festival. She also held a show in New York at CBGB's then flew across to Los Angeles and performed at Cat Club in Hollywood together with Teddy 'Zigzag' Andreadis (Alice Cooper (band), Guns N' Roses).
Kitto recorded another album titled ''Over Sensitive'' in Los Angeles with producer Michael Vail Blum alongside session musicians, bassist Johnny Griparic (Slash's Snakepit), guitarist Dean Pleasants (Suicidal Tendencies) and drummer Simon Runge. Several songs were written by Kitto and long time friend South African songwriter colleague Andrew McDonald, who later went on to become her manager. The album was mixed and mastered later that year back in Sweden by a young producer, composer and guitarist for a folk metal band Netherbird, Pontus (Pna) Andersson in Sweden. Entrepreneur Asher Hayley from a UK label Green Pepper Junction working together with London-based label Right Recordings signed '''Over Sensitive''' to a license deal and it was released in 2007.
The meeting with Andersson proved long lasting consequences. After ''Over Sensitive'' was completed, the two had developed such a strong working relationship so Kitto asked him to accompany her as her guitarist at Maryport Blues Festival in the UK when she was billed alongside headliner Tony Joe White.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/Record-crowds-sing-along-with-Geno-and-Kitto-850bd23b-7a80-4bc7-b1ee-4ef832ad4838-ds|title=Record crowds sing along with Geno and Kitto & Star|website=newsandstar.co.uk|date=29 July 2006 }}</ref> In the same year, Kitto composed a soundtrack along with author Lauren St John for a film based on St John's book The White Giraffe, called ''Last Place You Look'', and the song was recorded under the guidance of Andersson at his studios.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://laurenstjohn.com/|title=Lauren St John|website=laurenstjohn.com}}</ref> Andersson continued performing with Kitto and her then band as her guitarist, and ten years later in 2015 were eventually married.
2006 Kitto toured in Sweden and the UK as front vocalist for Janis Joplin's original band Big Brother and the Holding Company. She flew to San Francisco to make the audition and was greeted at the lobby of the Triton Hotel by Big Brother's guitarist Sam Andrew who came swinging Janis Joplin's own signature guitar 1964 Gibson Bluebird which Kitto used to perform the audition. Jerry Donahue Hellecasters, (Fairport Convention, Fotheringay) was also on the tour as guest guitarist.<ref name="Dagens Nyheter"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00838bg|title=15/08/2007, John Beattie in the Afternoon – BBC Radio Scotland|publisher=BBC}}</ref> This also impacted the later collaboration with her band to come, Perfect Blue Sky.
Meantime Kitto continued on touring as a solo artist back and forth, performing on Swedish national TV<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPB63vd5HTg|title=Jane Kitto – Live Swedish national TV|last=maho8519|date=24 February 2008|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b7n0zB3j6Q|title=Kitto – Dreaming of Sleeping – TV4 Nyhetsmorgon 2007|last=absoluteandrew|date=5 May 2007|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/kitto-ausswe-besoeker-mejeriet-i-lund-2-oktober-2008-238425|title=Kitto (AUS/SWE) besöker Mejeriet i Lund 2 oktober 2008|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=6 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006111848/http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/kitto-ausswe-besoeker-mejeriet-i-lund-2-oktober-2008-238425|url-status=dead}}</ref> and also making appearances in her homeland Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://upperyarra.mailcommunity.com.au/mail/2008-07-18/around-the-world-to-home/|title=Around the world to home|date=18 July 2008}}</ref>
Kitto recorded EP ''Unlearn Your Generation'' in 2008, featuring the singles 'Jack the Ripper' and 'Maryrose' which were produced by Chips Kiesbye, guitarist from the Swedish punk rock band Sator. Andersson featured on guitar along with bassist Anders Molin and Robban Bäck (Sabaton, Mustasch) on drums. The tracks were co-written with Kitto by both Andrew McDonald and Andrew McMillan.
Kitto headlined in 2009 Le Pacific Rock Festival in Papetee, French Polynesia, Tahiti's first rock festival event along with US guitarist Jeffrey Kollman (Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats), NZ bassist Billy Lang and drummer Joel Taylor. She later that year performed at the Dundee Blues Bonanza festival in Scotland, this time as a drum and guitar duo called The Blue Stripes together with Bill Bryant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-blue-stripes-singer-from-australia-performing-live-at-dexter%60s-24696035.html|title=Stock Photo – The Blue Stripes singer from Australia performing live at Dexter's Pub during the Blues Bonanza 15 2009 Event in Dundee, UK|website=Alamy}}</ref> Bryant's company Power FX recorded Kitto's vocals on a sample CD Extreme Rock Funk Rage, and in the promotional video Kitto duelled with Sweet Ann, the virtual vocalist.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6rcB9UKITg|title=Sweet Ann VS. Kitto|last=PowerFXSystems|date=21 August 2007|via=YouTube}}</ref> Some of the samples appear in Garageband software by Apple computers.
During the following years Kitto toured and performed across Europe at various music festivals, such as Sweden Rock,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swedenrock.com/?lg=1&x=review&view=review&rvwId=829|title=Sweden Rock|website=swedenrock.com}}</ref> Helge Å Festival Sweden,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://helgeafestivalen.se/artister-2010/ | title=Artister 28/8 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326201010/http://helgeafestivalen.se/artister-2010/ | archive-date=2016-03-26}}</ref> Reiu Rock Estonia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elu24.postimees.ee/255073/reiu-rock-peab-soojenduspidusid|title="Reiu Rock" peab soojenduspidusid|date=26 April 2010 }}</ref> Edinburgh Festival Scotland UK and Les Enfants Du Rock in France<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.yaquoi.com/PETER-DOHERTY-KITTO-KOMA | title=Les enfants du rock 8 - Peter Doherty + Kitto + Komä + The human E.T. | website=www.yaquoi.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lartino.fr/kitto-unlearn-your-generation/|title=KITTO, Unlearn Your Generation – Lartino.fr|date=10 May 2010}}</ref> as well as her home country Australia. In July 2010 Les Enfants Du Rock in France 2010 both Kitto and Andersson were support to Pete Doherty who consequently made a 'no show' and the duo were shifted up to the main headline on the festival.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/bitstream/10070/229825/35/ntn14jan11036x.pdf | title=Kitto loves to sing as she treks around | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006062356/http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/bitstream/10070/229825/35/ntn14jan11036x.pdf | archive-date=6 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.altaposten.no/lokalt/kultur/article500344.ece?service=mobile|title=Festlig festivalåpning|first=Bernhard|last=Hienerwadel|date=11 November 2011|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=6 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006062200/http://www.altaposten.no/lokalt/kultur/article500344.ece?service=mobile|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bluesnews.fi/suomiblues_ulk.htm|title=Blues News – Finnish Blues Magazine|website=bluesnews.fi|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=5 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305173250/http://www.bluesnews.fi/suomiblues_ulk.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brunsvika.net/nyhetsarkiv-alle-artikler/2009/5550-jane-kitto-pp|title=Jane Kitto på JP|last=Redaksjonen|date=15 October 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nettavisen.no/dittoslo/ungoslo-rocker-med-stjernene/3423108852.html|title=UngOslo rocker med stjernene|first=TRINE|last=SOLBERG|date=2 May 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tdv-nice.org/Galeries/Photos/Archives/Kitto|title=Kitto / Archives / Photos / Galeries / Théâtre de verdure – Theatre de verdure – Nice|first=Communauté urbaine Nice Côte|last=d'Azur|website=tdv-nice.org|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=6 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006062435/http://www.tdv-nice.org/Galeries/Photos/Archives/Kitto|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Kitto's fifth rock Album ''Crash'' 2011, was recorded with Kitto's then current band, Pna Andersson on guitar, Jan Johansson on drums and Anders Molin on bass. It was released, engineered and produced under Andersson's personal record label Scarecrow Recordings and rock metal distributors Sound Pollution SE.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metal-discovery.com/CD/cd_review_kitto_crash.htm|title=Metal Discovery: CD Review|first=Mark|last=Holmes|website=metal-discovery.com}}</ref>
===2014–2019===
In 2014 Kitto and Pna Andersson formed a multinational psychedelic rock band called Perfect Blue Sky. Both Kitto and Andersson are the founding members of the band and invited well-known musicians as guests to feature on both their two albums and live shows. Perfect Blue Sky's first album ''Emerald'' was released 2014. Their premier line up consisted of Dave Getz and Peter Albin (Big Brother and the Holding Company) and Danny Oakhill (Turksize) from Australia. The premier concert was in Stockholm at Stampen, followed by other shows including Puistoblues and Pieksämäki Beach Blues festivals in Finland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blues-finland.com/articles/savonsolmu_beach_blues_party_2014_pieksamaki.html|title=Blues-Finland.com – Savonsolmu Beach & Blues Party 2014, Pieksämäki – Raportti ja kuvat|website=blues-finland.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jazzrytmit.com/wp/s16-festivaalit/c69-festivaaliuutiset/naisenerginen-solmublues-jane-kitton-johdolla/|title=Jazzrytmit – Naisenerginen Solmublues Jane Kitton johdolla|website=jazzrytmit.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiorock.fi/#!/esiintyja/Jane+Kitto|title=RadioRock – Asenne on Rock|last=RadioRock|website=RadioRock}}</ref> She also continued to tour as a solo artist, mainly throughout Scandinavia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfs3dYMNQwc|title=Kitto Live & Interview with Bettina TV Yle 5|last=Kitto Flowerrock 2|date=3 June 2014|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotv.ax/gomorron/jane-kitto-gomorron|title=Jane Kitto i Gomorron|website=alandsradio.ax|date=7 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiorock.fi/#!/post/52af0e71b9843d0d0000000d|title=RadioRock – Asenne on Rock|last=RadioRock|website=RadioRock}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ntnews.com.au/entertainment/kitto-returns-to-darwin/news-story/5662b5405346ad33b0e17a85d7dc1974|title=From the North Pole to the Top End|website=ntnews.com.au}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.helsinginuutiset.fi/artikkeli/516341-onko-iltasi-viela-vapaa-australialainen-rokkimimmi-tulee-keikalle-espooseen-video|title=Onko iltasi vielä vapaa? Australialainen rokkimimmi tulee keikalle Espooseen – video|website=helsinginuutiset.fi|last=jari.pietilainen@media.fi|date=5 May 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kokemaenjokilaakso.fi/2017/03/16/rocktahti-jane-kitto-aikuinen-nainen-australiasta-kiertueelle-vammalasta|title=Rocktähti Jane Kitto: Aikuinen nainen Australiasta kiertueelle Vammalasta|website=kokemaenjokilaakso.fi|date=16 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ntnews.com.au/entertainment/kittos-back-again-in-the-top-end-for-a-final-solo-show-at-the-pint-club/news-story/68476dc2952778ea509b89fea2918d49|title=Kitto's back again in the Top End for a final solo show at the PINT club|website=ntnews.com.au|date=22 February 2018}}</ref>
2015 Perfect Blue Sky performed at Darwin's Sea Breeze Festival in Australia, with guest Allen Murphy former drummer for The Village People and Australian Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi and Danny Oakhill on keyboards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/bitstream/10070/256350/17/NTN30APR15PG017-MAI-COLOUR-PRIMARY.PDF|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810170528/http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/bitstream/10070/256350/17/NTN30APR15PG017-MAI-COLOUR-PRIMARY.PDF|title=Music forecast fine for Perfect Blue Sky |archivedate=10 August 2017|website=www.territorystories.nt.gov.au}}</ref> This was followed later by another series of shows in Scandinavia, with Weine Johansson on bass and Bil Bryant on drums.
The second album ''The Eye of Tilos'' was released in 2017, featuring once again Dave Getz, Jerry Donahue, Frank Bessard and Danny Oakhill. Perfect Blue Sky completed BBC UK live radio tours in 2017-2018 including BBC Essex <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p051tlwb|title=In session: Perfect Blue Sky, Tony Fisher – BBC Essex|publisher=BBC}}</ref> BBC Oxford,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0528y9v|title=Perfect Blue Sky, half term events & Bill Beverly, Nick Piercey – BBC Radio Oxford|publisher=BBC}}</ref> BBC Lancashire,<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p051szrx|title=24/05/2017, David White – BBC Radio Cornwall|publisher=BBC}}</ref> BBC Cornwall,<ref name="bbc.co.uk"/> Metro Radio, Total Rock Radio and Phoenix FM<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phoenixfm.com/2017/05/31/perfect-blue-sky-live-music-interview|title=Perfect Blue Sky – Live Music & Interview – Phoenix FM|date=31 May 2017}}</ref> in May 2017.
===2020–Present===
In early 2021, Kitto published ''Atlantic Cover Sessions'' as an online release only. During the Covid era, both Kitto and Andersson chose to reside in Newquay, Cornwall UK and continued to write and record songs for Perfect Blue Sky with a bi-monthly slew of singles and filming music videos on their Cornish apartment block staircase. Their first Double A-side single & video ''Oh Pretty One'' and hand-sketched anime ''The Silver Ark'' was released in June 2020 and distributed via Record Union<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.recordunion.com|title=Record Union|website=recordunion.com}}</ref> in Sweden to Spotify and Apple iTunes. More followed throughout the year with ''Stymie'', ''Honest Man'', ''Know My Enemy Well'' and ''One Starry Night'', all mastered by British record producer and sound engineer John Cornfield (Muse, Oasis). Other singles that year includes ''Plush'' (Stone Temple Pilots cover) and ''Beat of that drum''.
Later the duo emerged as one of the fortunate bands selected for The Great Estate’s ‘Gardens Gathering’ alongside Newton Faulkner in 2020 onto the Cornish festival scene under their various compilation of bands i.e. Little Orchard Festival, Leopallooza,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leopallooza.com/past-line-ups|title=Leopalooza|website=leopallooza.com}}</ref> The GreatEstate,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jambase.com/festival/the-great-estate-festival-2022|title=Jambase|website=jambase.com}}</ref> Rattler Festival and down in Australia’s Northern Territory Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nightcliffseabreeze.com/2024|title=Nightcliff Seabreeze|website=nightcliffseabreeze.com}}</ref> Between 2022-2025 Kitto performed together with Andersson under the guise of all three of their bands Perfect Blue Sky, Kitto and more recent folk trio Delilah Daisies and Indie-Rock Dolores Marvelous.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.doloresmarvelous.com|title=Dolores Marvelous|website=doloresmarvelous.com}}</ref>
In late 2024 Kitto featured two songs ''Last Place You Look'' and ''Pretty Pink Baby Blue'' in a British movie produced by Queen Bee Films led by writer and producer Deborah Hadfield ''The Chocolate Club''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21917120/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm|title=The Chocolate Club|website=imdb.com}}</ref>
Most recently in September 2025 Kitto made her ‘bucket list’ theatre debut together with her trio Lewis Parsons – Viola and Kalle Rantala – Drums at her idol and renown Finnish Movie Producer Aki Kaurismäki’s at Kino Laika in Karkkila Finland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.karkkilalainen.fi/paikalliset/8870068|title=Kitto rokkaa Kino Laikassa ja unelmoi tapaavansa Kaurismäen – Keikkamyyjä Hämeenlinnasta "aivopesi" rouheaäänisen aussirokkarin|website=karkkilalainen.fi|date=25 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kinolaika.fi/film/kitto/|title=Kino Laika|website=kinolaika.fi}}</ref>
To date, Kitto currently performs solo or with her trio on various tours particularly twice yearly in Finland via her agent-manager Jari Hämäläinen at Gogo Rodeo Agency based in Finland where she holds a loyal fan-base as well as Sweden, Australia and the South West of England in Cornwall where both she and Pna Andersson are domicile.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gogorodeoagency.com/3-kitto-aus.html|title=Go Go Rodeo|website=gogorodeoagency.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hameensanomat.fi/paikalliset/4839252|title=Aikuinen nainen Australiasta saapuu Hämeenlinnaan – Jane Kitto korjasi laivastossa antennimastoja bikineissä, sai kenkää, ja ryhtyi rokkariksi|website=hameensanomat.fi|date=4 March 2022}}</ref>
==Players==
* Pontus ‘Pna’ Andersson – Guitar / Vocals / Producer / Co-Writer * Anders ‘Molle’ Molin – Bass * Daniel Robinson aka ‘Danny Krash’ – Drums * Kalle Rantala – Drums * Doug Corby – Drums / Vocals * Lewis Parsons – Viola / Bass * Gem Caley – Percussion / Vocals
===<small>Past and session players</small>=== * John Annas – Drums /Vocals / Co-Writer * Frank Bessard – Drums / Vocals * Bil Bryant – Drums / Producer * Allen Murphy - Drums * Tim Tate – Bass * Roger McLachlan - Bass * Kim May - Bass
==Discography== Albums, EP's & Singles
* ''Kitto – Atlantic Cover Sessions (Online Album 2021)'' * ''Perfect Blue Sky – The Eye of Tilos (CD 2017)'' * ''Perfect Blue Sky – Emerald (CD 2015)'' * ''Flower Punch – Flower Punch (CD 2012)'' * ''Kitto – Crash (CD 2011)'' * ''Kitto – Unlearn Your Generation (EP 2009)'' * ''Kitto – Chiltern Sessions Unreleased (CD 2007)'' * ''Kitto – Over Sensitive (CD 2007)'' * ''Kitto – Precious Junk (CD 2005)'' * ''Kitto – Catalina Dreaming (Single 2004)'' * ''Kitto – I Wonder Why (Single 2003)'' * ''Kitto – Glorious (Single 2002)'' * ''Kitto – Princess of Tragedy (CD 2002)'' * ''Kitto – Umbilically Yours (CD 2000)'' * ''Kitto – Baby Porcelain (CD 1998)'' * ''Kitto – Jane Kitto Unreleased (EP 1996)'' * ''Kitto – 20 Jacksonia (EP 1995)'' * ''Kitto – Blind Lead The Blind (Single 1991)''
Compilations
* ''Little Miss Rock N Roll Featuring The Fintones Finnish All Music & Media FAMCD-108 Finland (CD 2011)''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bluesnews.fi/levyarvio_littlemissrock&roll.htm|title=Blues News|website=bluesnews.fi}}</ref> * ''Power FX sample CD 'Extreme Rock Funk Rage' features Kitto vocal samples (CD 2007)''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://powerfx.com/products/989253404|title=PowerFX – Extreme Rock Funk Rage|website=powerfx.com}}</ref> * ''Rock 'N Fuck CD Feat Kitto 'A Short Story'. Produced by Jerkhouse Connection – France (CD 2006)'' * ''Essential Chillhouse Vol 4 Presents Cool Sound Music COOL07314 Spain (2007)'' * ''Everybody's Story – Brian Kramer (2002)''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kramerblues.com/discografy/|title=Discography/Buy :: Brian Kramer Blues|website=kramerblues.com}}</ref> * ''W.A.A.M Ben Antell BOX AMERICANA Riverside Records rrcd009 (2000)''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.antell.com/waam.html|title=W.A.A.M. Records|website=antell.com}}</ref> * ''Jukka Tolonen 'Big Time' Feat Kitto on 'Hard Work Jam' and 'You sure know how to fool me' VDFCD-8004 Gazell Records AB Sweden (1997)''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.finnmusic.net/main.php?64525d5248077550595c0655625c1e|title=Jukka TOLONEN: ON THE ROCKY ROAD - A RETROSPECTIVE (Love Records 2CD) - release recording details / finnmusic.net|website=finnmusic.net}}</ref> * ''Mushroom Autumn Sampler – PRD91/11 Mushroom Australia (1991)'' * ''Cattle truck ready to believe CD 38720 Mushroom Australia (1987)'' * ''Chantoosies 'He's gonna step on you again' Mushroom Australia (1987)''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/@JaneKittosingersongwriter Jane Kitto YouTube] *[https://www.youtube.com/c/PerfectBlueSkyRock Perfect Blue Sky YouTube] *[http://www.kittorock.com Kitto Official site] *[https://www.instagram.com/kitto_janei Kitto Instagram] *[https://www.songkick.com/artists/452256-kitto/gigography Kitto Songkick] *[http://www.perfectbluesky.net Perfect Blue Sky Official site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130215154/http://www.perfectbluesky.net/ |date=30 January 2018 }}
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