Something For Kate

Something for Kate formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1994.The founding members of the three-piece band were vocalist and guitarist Paul Dempsey, bass player, Julian Carroll and drummer Clint Hyndman.

After recording a 7 track demo in 1995,the band signed to Murmur Records, a subsidiary of Sony. Then in 1996, they released the 7 track E.P., "The Answer to Both Your Questions" recorded and mixed by Mr. Greg Atkinson of Sydney band, Big Heavy Stuff.

In November of 1996,the 3 track single, "Dean Martin" was released. Early in 1997,the band then released a 5 track E.P. titled "Intermission" as they recorded their first album, "Elsewhere for Eight Minutes" in New Zealand and mixed and mastered it in New York with U.S. producer Brian Paulson.(Brian had previously produced albums for amongst others, Wilco, Archers of Loaf, Superchunk and Slint) Something for Kate's first full length album was released in July of 1997. Bass player, Julian Carroll was then replaced by Toby Ralph who toured with the band for the release of this album.

Four singles were released from "Elsewhere for Eight Minutes". They were: "Captain(Million miles an hour)","Prick", "Working Against Me" and "Roll Credit". Bass player, Toby Ralph was then replaced by Stephanie Ashworth in March 1998. The band then wrote their second album, "Beautiful Sharks" which was released in April of 1999. "Beautiful Sharks" was recorded in Melbourne, once again by producer, Brian Paulson.

Four singles were released from "Beautiful Sharks". They were: "Electricity", "Hallways", "Whatever You Want" and "The Astronaut" When the band went on the road with this album they took on an extra touring musician, Wally Gunn to play the incidental guitar and keyboard parts.

In 2000 as the band were writing for their third album, Murmur released "Q & A With Dean Martin", a re-release of the bands first E.P. and single as they had since sold out of their pressings and were increasingly difficult to come by. Also released in 2000 was "Big Screen Television", a video collection of 12 of the bands music videos along with some bonus footage.

Then in June of 2001, Something for Kate released their third album, "Echolalia". Produced by the band and Trina Shoemaker whose other recording credits include Queens of the Stone Age, REM, Whiskeytown, Sheryl Crow, "Echolalia" was recorded at INXS bass-player, Gary Garry Beers' Mangrove studio in the Central Coast of NSW.

Four singles were released from "Echolalia". They were; "Monsters", "Three Dimensions", "Twenty Years" and "Say Something". When touring this album, the band then took on two touring musicians, Pip Branson and Simon Bourke, again, to play the increasing amount of keyboards and extra guitar parts featured on the album.

In 2002, the band released their first DVD, entitled "A Diversion" which is a document of the writing, recording and touring of the "Echolalia" album.

In 2003 the band recorded their fourth album, "The Official Fiction". Produced once again by the band and Trina Shoemaker at Mangrove studios, "The Official Fiction" is the bands current album (released in Australia in August 2003), and has so far spawned the singles, "Deja vu", "Song for A Sleepwalker", "Best Weapon" and &quotMoving Right Along". The album will be released in Europe and the USA in mid-2004.

After supporting David Bowie on the Australian leg of his 'Reality Tour', the band toured Europe in 2004 taking in Germany, France, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland and the UK before returned to Australia to release their first Double album, "Phantom Limbs- Selected B-Sides". This release is a collection of the band members and their fans favourite b-side tracks from over the years.

Upon returning to Australia in the latter part of 2004 the band spent the remainder of the year writing and demoing songs for their 5th album. After completing this demo process in mid 2005, the band then went to Los Angles to record album no.5 with U.S. producer, Brad wood whose recording credits have included everyone from Chicago post-rock band Tortoise, Red Red Meat, Liz Phair, Pete Yorn, The Smashing Pumpkins to Ben Lee. Emerging 4 months later with the finished album, the band then released the 1st single in on May 6th, "Cigarettes and Suitcases" from the forthcoming album, "Desert Lights".

"Desert Lights" was released on the 1st July 2006 and debuted at No.1 on the Australian chart. It was pronounced Gold in the first week. The band toured the album nationally and then released the following 2 singles from the album, "Oh kamikaze" and "California".

After much touring within Australia throughout 2006 and then the 2007 Big Day Out tour, Homebake and numerous other festivals the band then went into the studio and recorded a brand new single titled "The Futurist" to feature on what would be their first Greatest Hits-type record - the double album, "The Murmur Years- The Best of Something for Kate 1996 - 2007". In August of 2007 "The Futurist" was released as an iTunes only single and "The Murmur Years" was released on August 18th.

The band will tour nationally in September of 2007 to celebrate this release and have announced that next up is the Paul Dempsey solo album before making another SFK album.

(Courtesy SomethingForKate.com)