The Kiffness

David Scott has already made us dance and laugh several times with his humorous project The Kiffness. It's not very often that both happen at the same time in music. But the South African has hit a real nerve with his cat collabs. Scott started his musical career back in 2011, when he began travelling around Cape Town's bars with his brother and performing there. But instead of playing classic guitar folk, they put their audience under pressure with trumpet, keyboard, electric drums and a beat machine. In the middle of the decade, the trained musician had his first radio successes in his home country with Mathew Gold on vocals, Mvelo Shandu on bass, Raiven Hansmann on keys and Clem Carr on saxophone. People he still works with today. Tours at home and abroad followed, but it was the pandemic and his experiments with cat content that turned The Kiffness into a worldwide phenomenon. Which is great, because it means we can now enjoy this cool, relaxed sound and these surprising and exciting shows.