Kodiak Island

Jo Bartlett has been releasing music since she was a teenager as part of the early indie, C86 scene, releasing a couple of 12” on Dan Treacy’s (The Television Personalities) Dreamworld label. She was part of the folktronica movement in 2000 with the drum machine and acoustic guitars of It’s Jo & Danny with whom she signed to RCA Records. Jo’s had her music used by Liam Gallagher to advertise his Pretty Green clothes range with The Yellow Moon Band and also had a track included on the Guitar Hero computer game, again with the YMB.

Along the way her music has been described as ‘...sly and intelligent’ Q ‘Spellbinding’ The Times ‘Beautiful’ The Daily Telegraph and ‘Defining’ NME

These days Jo fronts five piece psychedelic indie band, Kodiak Island.

Kodiak Island have released two albums; 2018’s ‘The Golden Section’ and ‘The Amber Road’ the following year. In early 2022 they released a 10” vinyl ep and cd ‘The Play To Your Strengths’ e.p. on the new i40 Records. Physical copies of the ep are very limited. Cherry Red released the digital version.

New tracks have been released in autumn 2023, now through Jo’s Indie Through The Looking Glass label. ‘Strange Skies’, ‘Drawing a Line’ with ‘Innocence’ due in November.

Jo is also the founder (along with her partner Danny Hagan) of the Green Man Festival.