When his fiancé left for a two week holiday in the Australian outback only to mail home a postcard saying she would never return, production-line factory worker Kurt Rabbitt was heartbroken. Refusing to accept her decision, however, Rabbitt flew to Australia in an attempt to track his woman down. For six months, he looked for his lost love, but in the end it was futile.

Filled with a burning fury and frightening sense of self-loathing, Rabbitt returned to the UK and began to drink heavily. Before long, he had moved on to strong, prescription drugs. Then, suicidal and at rock bottom, he began corresponding with a woman by the name of Eileen he met whilst over in Australia.

Through her letters, Eileen professed a great love for Kurt Rabbitt and, although her feelings were not reciprocated, she still felt compelled to move over to the UK, just to be near him. Despite proposing several times, Eileen still could not persuade the ever-increasingly-violent Kurt to marry her. What she did manage to do though, was convince Rabbitt to turn to song writing as a therapeutic means…

Kurt Rabbitt’s EP “Rabbitt” is a bizarre, bastardised take on the Country & Western genre. Adhering to the classic themes of loss, despair, and good-times-gone-forever, packed with pop culture references, and stealing sounds from subjects as diverse as 40’s music hall to Smokey and the Bandit, this is a wonderful insight into a mind completely unhinged.

Kurt Rabbitt