Blogpost
Thursday 4th March
Ok it’s been a few months since our last post and the real reason for our silence is that we couldn’t think of any songs or poems that we like with January or February in the title or elsewhere to use as a heading- nothing at all to do with laziness really.
Why are all the best songs about the end of the year? November by Tom Waits, Through December by Laura Veirs, and that wonderful Halloween theme by John Carpenter which would suit for October, although it doesn’t have any words, just goes de de de, de de de, duh duh, de de de, de de de, duh duh, which is hardly that arresting on a page.
We are presented with a similar dilemma for the month of March, and as such have entitled this post simply blogpost. Say what you like we’re saving our originality for the studio thank you very much,
and as such the recording of our album remains and will remain our main priority for the next wee while.
We are not adverse to putting in a few bread and butter appearances here and there, however. Some of you may have spotted us hauling our gear down Gt George’s Street in Dublin for a Song Room session last month, and we helped open the Ad Hoc gallery in Belfast in January.
We also popped up on Bandwidth’s Valentines Day compilation with our cover of The Cure’s Lovecats. We could run a spot-KATCO competition, kind of like The Knitted Character out of Harry Hill, the prize would be little knitted versions of ourselves, which would only be distributed on a waiver assuring us that the recipient does not practice vodoo.
Not that we don’t trust you, but you can’t be too careful these days.
That aside, we are happy to advertise our second appearance with the awesome chamber pop duo and Balcony TV Music Video Awards nominees The Candides next Saturday March 13th, which will be a vodoo free zone.
We also have a new track up on our facebook page (click here), a demo of a brand new O’Neill composition and a taster of things to come. You can download the Valentines compilation (including tracks from Heliopause, The Flora, The Fauna and A Plastic Rose, and us, among others) from the Bandwidth website by clicking here.
That’s all for now, keep your ears to the ground and we’ll see you around,
de de de, de de de, duh, duh.. damn it’s stuck in my head,
KATCO xx
At least i have this old guitar, to get me through December…
Tuesday 1st December
It is customary in this line of work to leave things to the last possible opportunity, so it was that Ciara, Ronan and the two Pauls finally booked their flights to London only last night!
By sheer felicity however we got a reasonable deal and will be appearing at The Enterprise, Camden, next Saturday December 12th and on the Friday Forum Show with Recharged Radio the Friday Dec 11th at seven, which you’ll be able to listen to here. On the Thursday 10th we’ll be playing at the legendary Hope and Anchor in Islington.
When we return we will be appearing at Gifted in The Belfast Empire Thursday December 17th, the second of our two Belfast shows this month, the first being Blast:Live at Laverys Bunker this Friday the fourth at about eight, which will be broadcast on Blast 106.4 (a new student radio station) the following week while we’re kicking it in capital city.
Also keep an eye out for The Great Dame, a new alternative pantomime from the Men of The Hour crowd, with whom we did a couple of gigs in the summer. It’ll be playing in The Black Box, Belfast, Sunday 20th December through December 23th, and will feature music from your favourite folk-pop Belfastians.
Many thanks to all those at BBC Radio Ulster and Gerry Anderson’s production team for going out of their way to make us feel at home, and to the man himself who, as you can see from above, was the picture of avuncularity- stick that in your pipe Stephan Nolan!
We were also pleasantly surprised to learn that Gerry’s producer is none other than Michael Bradley from the Undertones, and he in turn was surprised that we had covered one of his songs for a punk nostalgia project earlier in the year, remarking that we had actually improved the track. We beg to differ of course but thanks anyway!
We’ll be taking a short break for Christmas and by and large will be keeping our live appearances to a minimum this January to hopefully finish our new EP. There may be one or two little things here and there however- we’ll keep you posted as ever.
In the meantime good luck hauling those shopping bags around and hopefully see you before the big C,
KATCO XX.
