| Something for Kate would like to thank everyone that voted in JJJ’s Hottest 100, the results cap off a great 2001 for Something for Kate. The countdown of the hottest 100 on Australia Day revealed ‘Monsters’ made it to the #2 position. | |
 Something for Kate would like to thank everyone that voted in JJJ’s Hottest 100, the results cap off a great 2001 for Something for Kate. The countdown of the hottest 100 on Australia Day revealed ‘Monsters’ made it to the #2 position, Three Dimensions to #13 and Twenty years at #37. For the full results visit the JJJ Hottest 100 page. |
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Something For Kate Record New Album
24/01/2003
| Melbourne based band, Something For Kate will head into the studio next month to commence work on their fourth album. The band plans to head overseas later this year to support the international release of their last release, “Echolalia”. | |
 Something for Kate has taken a break from touring to concentrate on writing material for their upcoming fourth album. The release will be the follow-up to their 2001 release “Echolalia” which reached Platinum status and spawned the hit single, “Monsters”. The band will head into the studio on the NSW Central Coast at the end of February to start recording the new release. US producer Trina Shoemaker, who worked on “Echolalia”, will once again make the trip out to Australia to co-produce the new record.
Once the album is finished sfk plan to jet off overseas for a series of live shows in the US and UK. Gigs in the States will be to support the local release of their last album “Echolalia” through their New York based label, Red Ink. Click here to vote now: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/default.htm. |
New Album Announcement
23/01/2003
| Something for Kate have taken a break from touring over the last few months to write material for their fourth album, the follow-up to their 2001 release ‘Echolalia’. Trina Shoemaker, will once again make the trip out to Australia to co-produce | |
| Something for Kate have taken a break from touring over the last few months to write material for their fourth album, the follow-up to their 2001 release ‘Echolalia’. We can confirm that the band will head into the studio on the Central Coast of NSW at the end of February to start recording the new album. US producer Trina Shoemaker, who worked on Echolalia, will once again make the trip out to Australia to co-produce the new record |
Vote For Something For Kate
16/01/2003
| Voting for Triple J’s Hottest 100 for 2002 is now online and Melbourne based band Something For Kate qualify for the chart with the track ‘Say Something’. Released last year, ‘Say Something’ is off their Platinum selling album, ‘Echolalia’. | |
| Something For Kate fans listen up. Voting for Triple J’s Hottest 100 for 2002 is now online and Melbourne based band Something For Kate qualify for the chart with the track ‘Say Something’. Released last year, ‘Say Something’ is off their Platinum selling album, ‘Echolalia’ which also featured the hit single, ‘Monsters’.
Click here now to vote for ‘Say Something’ – song 452. In the meantime check out the Something For Kate DVD, ‘A Diversion’. Available in stores now, it features ‘Holding Pattern’ a mini movie on the making of ‘Echolalia’, a collection of the band’s videos and fantastic live performances from Live At The Wireless, The Big Day Out and more. |
Paul Contributes To A Short Film
17/12/2002
| Paul Dempsey has contributed the score for a short film by Bart Broghesi, long-time collaborator and director of 12 Something for Kate music videos. You can watch the film ‘Behave’ on the IFilm website by following this link. | |
| Paul Dempsey has contributed the score for a short film by Bart Broghesi, long-time collaborator and director of 12 Something for Kate music videos. You can watch the film ‘Behave’ on the IFilm website by following this link.
Red Hot Green Black – Compliation Something for Kate have donated the track ‘Hawaiian Robots’ to the latest charity compilation from Red Hot Green Black. Red Hot Green Black is acharity organisation promoting awareness of environment and indigenous issues as well as raising much needed funds in these areas. The primarysource of funding is an album of Australian musicians – titled ‘UNAUSTRALIAN’ – it features 3 CDs with different genres represented on each. The CD is available now, for further info visit www.redhotgreenblack.org. |
USA Tour Dates
21/10/2002
 Paul Dempsey heads to the US next week to commence a tour in support of the American release of Echolalia (available now). Paul will be performing solo acoustic – the full run of dates are listed below. Check www.somethingforkate.com for further details re. ticketing and onstage times.
Tues 22/10 Seattle, WA Sunset Tavern, with Mark Olsen |
A Diversion – DVD Out Now
18/10/2002
| The Something for Kate DVD – ‘A Diversion’ – is out now. This is the first DVD for Something for Kate, and it includes over three hours of footage. | |
| The Something for Kate DVD – ‘A Diversion’ – is out now. This is the first DVD for Something for Kate, and it includes over three hours of footage. ‘A Diversion’ features a 30 minute film titled ‘Holding Pattern’; 29 live performances; 10 video clips; the making of the video clips; a photo gallery and interactive menus. |
Own Paul’s Guitar
18/10/2002
| To coincide with Amnesty International Candle Day (held on 18th October 2002), Something for Kate frontman Paul Dempsey is auctioning his Fender jazzmaster guitar, with all proceeds going to Amnesty International. | |
| To coincide with Amnesty International Candle Day (held on 18th October 2002), Something for Kate frontman Paul Dempsey is auctioning his Fender jazzmaster guitar, with all proceeds going to Amnesty International. This is your chance to own a piece of Something for Kate memorabilia – the Jazzmaster has been Paul’s main guitar for the last few years.
Amnesty International is a non-profit organisation that relies solely on community funds and voluntary involvement to support their human rights campaigns. Candle Day is the one day each year when Amnesty members and supporters publicly demonstrate their commitment to defending international The auction for Paul’s guitar is being held on ebay – the direct link is: :http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=913431349. The auction closes Thursday 24th October. |
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Paul Dempsey To Bake Alone
29/08/2002
| This year’s Homebake festival will see Something For Kate frontman Paul Dempsey perform a solo acoustic set. | |
 This year’s Homebake festival will see Something For Kate frontman Paul Dempsey perform a solo acoustic set.
Following the success of his recent solo tour, Paul will tackle the festival on his own, giving fans who may have missed this more intimate format a chance to find out what all the fuss is about. This year, Paul will be joined on the bill by some of the biggest bands in Australia, including Jebediah, 1200 techniques and Wicked Beat Sound System. The Festival will be held on Saturday December 7 in the Domain at Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney. |
More DVD Details for SFK
26/08/2002
| More details have been confirmed about the forthcoming DVD release from Something for Kate. The package will be titled “A Diversion” and looks set for release in late September. | |
| More details have been confirmed about the forthcoming DVD release from Something for Kate. The package will be titled “A Diversion” and looks set for release in late September.
Included on the DVD is a short film ‘Holding Pattern’ which features never before seen footage of the band in the studio and on the road. In addition to the short film another short video segment provides a glimpse behind the scenes during the making of the film clips for the Echolalia album. |