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kat frankie

The Tops
out now
through iTunes

About Me

Kat Frankie is now on Facebook and Bebo. Do say hello.
www.facebook.com/pages/Kat-Frankie/25700105328
www.bebo.com/katfrankie
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Pocketknife - Deutschland
Jetzt erhältlich von iTunes und:
www.amazon.de www.musicload.de www.finetunes.net
Das Album steht ab dem 18. Januar 2008 in den Läden!
Mehr infos: www.solaris-empire.de
AUSTRALIA - "Pocketknife" available now from Vitamin Records!
www.vitamin.net.au

Track Listing: 1. A brief moment between Sigrid Thornton and Sergei Prokofiev 2. Boy Wolf 3. Everything Everything 4. Fake 5. The Tops 6. Blameless 7. The Wrong Side of Midnight 8. Going Away 9. Treading Water 10. Say It Isn't So 11. Berlin Cops 12. Come Quickly 13. Serves You Right for Using Violence
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DEUTSCHLAND - Get Outside. Now. (delivery to Germany only!) now.
Track Listing: 1. You Drive Like a Maniac 2. Not Myself 3. Evermore 3. Lucretia Avenue 5. Nobody Else
AUSTRALIA! - Outside. Now. Re-release.
The original E.P. is now available in stores through Vitamin Records. Order a copy if you'd like to know how I sounded 4 years ago. :) www.vitamin.net.au
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"Her songs are dark and feisty, almost brutal at times, then again gentle and fragile. Frankie’s songwriting covers a large spectrum and an incredibly versatile voice precisely portrays all that rage, suffering and love. **** (4 stars)” Rolling Stone, Germany (translation)
“Kat Frankie’s songs are beautifully crafted with poetic lyrics and her vocal range is extraordinary." The Age
"Pocketknife is a rich, often quite perfect body of work. This woman has talent: she can pant and purr with the best of them, effect a PJ Harvey-ish snarl, turn out clever pop like Aimee Mann (The Tops) and coo prettily like Bic Runga.” The Australian
"Kat Frankie sucked me kicking and screaming into a vortex of deep emotion.” Brag
"Passionate yet dark, fragile yet brutal, beautiful yet intimidating." Time Out Magazine
Kat Frankie spent her youth in the sunburnt suburbs of Sydney, scribing countless songs in her parents’ sweltering attic. She moved to Berlin in December 2004, where she is known for her passionate, dynamic and riveting live shows. Her upcoming April Australian tour features Kat in stripped-back acoustic mode, giving space to her incredible voice; reaching from tender, sparse melancholy to dramatic, soaring aggression.
Kat's debut album, “Pocketknife” was released in Australia in September 2007, and in Germany January 2008, and has been highly praised in both countries. Kat has also released an EP titled “outside.now.” and appears on several independent compilations from Australia and Germany.
Kat also features in BerlinSong, a music documentary made by Uli Schueppel about songwriters in Berlin. The film was selected to premiere at the 2007 Berlinale Film Festival, and will soon appear in cinemas across Germany. For screening information please go to berlinsong.com
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/19/2006
Band Website: katfrankie.com
Band Members: Steffen Schlosser (Kitty Solaris) on drums, Ben Kaan on guitar, Chris Rodriguez (Eddie) on bass and Karen Weber (Firefly Orchestra). Kat will be performing solo in Brussels.

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Influences: Angry women and fire-and-brimstone men. The messy parts of relationships. The shades that grey can take. Broken voices, fragile bodies. Theatre. Flashing glints of colour in the corner of your eye. The unexpected heart swell. Deafening rages. Love. Then there are the artists: PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple, Peter Carey, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Bic Runga, Alvar Aalto, Ute Lemper, Tom Waits, Carson McCullers, Cy Twombly, Lyle Lovett (seriously), Cat Power and so on and so on and so on...
Record Label: AU: gazelle/vitamin DE: solaris empire
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Deutsche Rezensionen!

Wir werden mehr Rezensionen hinzufügen, wenn/wie sie ankommen... (tell me if I got that one right...)soundmag:Als ich vor drei Jahren eine Berliner Lesebühne besuchte, kündigte sich ein mir noch unbek...
Posted by kat frankie on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:15:00 PST

Rolling Stone: "* * * *"

Four stars! Check out the review in February's German Rolling Stone. It's the one with Led Zeppelin on the front.Viele Seiten, kein Lehrlauf: Die kratzbürstige Australierin fasziniertEnde Januar kommt...
Posted by kat frankie on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:49:00 PST

The Reviews Are Out! Pocketknife kicks arse!

We'll be adding reviews as they come.Rave Magazine (Michael Pincott)It's nice to hear a record that does more than it has to. Moving to Berlin in 2004 and living in Sydney prior to that, Frankie has s...
Posted by kat frankie on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:24:00 PST

"The Tops" - Inpress Mag Single of the Week!

Inpress Magazine 21/Feb/07 "Singled Out" by Clem BastowSingle of The WeekKat Frankie The TopsShooting through Berlin is obviously going well for displaced Sydneysider Kat Frankie; The Tops is simply s...
Posted by kat frankie on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:48:00 PST

March Tour photo album

Lamm Records Song Slam TourA photo diary by Kat Frankie.www.flickr.comfeaturing Fine Arts Showcase (Malmö/London), Theoretical Girl (London) and Johanna Zeul (Berlin) on the road....
Posted by kat frankie on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:33:00 PST

BerlinSong premieres at the Berlinale 2007!

BerlinSong has been selected for the 57th Berlin International Film Festival! In case you're wondering, it's a music doco featuring Kat Frankie, Crazy For Jane, Fancie, Nathan Vanderpool, Einar Stense...
Posted by kat frankie on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:28:00 PST

"The Tops" - Beat magazine Single of the Week!

Beat magazine 17/07/2007:   SINGLE OF THE WEEKKAT FRANKIE The Tops (Independent) The Sydney-born singer-songwriter cut her teeth on the basement bars and art galleries of Berlin, making a debut ...
Posted by kat frankie on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:55:00 PST