[Cover photo credit to Cortney Armitage]
Multi-platinum, BRIT Award-winning and Grammy-nominated artist KT Tunstall has announced the 20th anniversary re-issue of her debut album, Eye To The Telescope, due for release in collector’s edition vinyl and CD formats, featuring B-sides and exclusive live tracks, on October 31st, 2025.
Included on the album is a first-time release of a long-lost song, the previously unheard title track, “Eye To The Telescope”, available now.
Written by Tunstall and produced by long-time collaborator Martin Terefe, the song lay unfinished in the vaults for two decades until, inspired by the forthcoming anniversary, Tunstall decided to revisit and finish it.
Originally released at the tail end of 2004, the Eye To The Telescope album catapulted Scottish Singer Songwriter KT Tunstall into the global spotlight, fueled by a live debut on Later… with Jools Holland when Tunstall took a last-minute opportunity to fill in for rapper Nas, and perform with nothing but her guitar, loop pedal, and tambourine.
The recipient of several awards, most recently the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for outstanding Song Collection, Tunstall has continued to tour the world and release eight albums.
A highlight of the anniversary re-release is the addition of three new songs, including future single “Cancerian, Anything At All,” as well as the title track “Eye To The Telescope.” These songs were started during the original writing sessions and left unfinished until this year.
These three new tracks will also be released as their own stand-alone digital EP- The Stargazer EP, which will contain the original versions as well as the “Still” acoustic versions, on October 31st.
The song “Eye To the Telescope,” features original String Arranger David Davidson returning to add orchestration, alongside a special performance from Shabaka, whose wooden flute graces the piece.
Speaking about the song and album title, Tunstall shares:
The title for my first album was inspired by the times when my physicist Dad, who had a spare set of keys for the Observatory at Andrew’s university, would randomly get us up in the middle of the night and bundle us into the car in our pajamas to go and look through the huge telescope to see the night sky; the Moon, Saturn, Halley’s comet, all of which completely blew my mind as a kid. When I decided to call the album ‘Eye to the Telescope’, I thought I’d have a go at writing a title track, but what I began writing was so delicate, and I felt that a title track of a first album surely had to be a banger, so I abandoned it.
My label BMG encouraged me to finish the song for this special re-release, and it’s been such a thrill to complete something over 20 years in the making. Having the album’s original string arranger David Davidson add his gorgeous orchestration on it, as well as Shabaka’s magical wooden flute performance, feels like a cosmic full-circle moment.
KT Tunstall U.S. Tour Dates:
Sun, AUG 10 Hartwood Acres Amphitheater – Hampton Township, PA
Wed, AUG 13 Capital One Hall – Supporting Toad The Wet Sprocket – Tysons, VA
Thu, AUG 14 Westville Music Bowl – Supporting Toad The Wet Sprocket – New Haven, CT
Fri, AUG 15 Artpark Ampitheater – Supporting Toad The Wet Sprocket, Lewiston, NY
Sat, AUG 16 Chevalier Theatre – Supporting Toad The Wet Sprocket, Medford, MA
Mon, AUG 18 Summer Stage at Tree House Brewing Company – Supporting Toad The Wet Sprocket – South Deerfield, MA
Tue, AUG 19 Santander Performing Arts Center – Supporting Toad The Wet Sprocket – Reading, PA
Thu, AUG 21 Koka Booth Ampitheatre – Supporting Toad The Wet Sprocket, Cary, NC
Fri, AUG 22 Atlanta Symphony Hall – Supporting Toad The Wet Sprocket – Atlanta, GA
Sat, AUG 23 The Amp Ballantyne – Supporting Toad The Wet Sprocket, Charlotte, NC
Sep. 5 – 6, 2025 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival – Eat to the Beat Concert Series 2025 – Orlando, FL
Fri, SEP 12 Fred Kavli Theatre – Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza – Thousand Oaks, CA
Tue, SEP 16 Paramount Theatre – Austin, TX
Fri, SEP 19 Longhorn Ballroom – Dallas, TX
Sat, SEP 20 House of Blues Houston – Houston, TX
Sun, SEP 21 Hattiesburg Saenger Theater – Hattiesburg, MS
Tue, SEP 23 Lexington Opera House – Lexington, KY
Wed, SEP 24 Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN
Fri, SEP 26 Coronado Performing Arts Center – Rockford, IL
Sat, SEP 27 Ames Center – Burnsville, MN
Sun, SEP 28 Vibrant Music Hall – Waukee, IA
Mon, SEP 29 Pabst Theater – Milwaukee, WI
Thu, OCT 2 Lyric Baltimore – Baltimore, MD
Sun, OCT 5 Capitol Center for the Arts – Concord, NH
Mon, OCT 6 State Theatre – Portland, ME
Fri, OCT 10 Palladium Times Square – New York, NY
Sat, OCT 11 CURE Insurance Arena – Trenton, NJ
