September was the month that Ronan went to Venice and tried to write
a song about Venice but ended up writing a song about home instead.
Here he is recording a completely unrelated song;
it was the month when Kitty and the Can Openers played the City of
Song Festival in Derry, and Ciara and Ronan had two simultaneous but
completely subjective epiphanies on the City walls:
where Paul Scott was photographed looked very large,
and very, very small
where we retired to Innnishowen Peninsula between festival slots for a bit of scenic diving
and, amongst our most singular gigs, played Derry’s Delacroix,
amidst the Sunday-dinner smelling carpets and avuncular clientelle of
the classic Irish local.
We took to the stage and rocked most eloquently while a single drunk danced. And Ciara had a Coke…which she soon drank.
It was the month where we played in a circus tent (The Bosco Theatre) at the Dublin Fringe, and did a set with
Shane Todd on West Belfast’s Feile FM
-here he is:
October will see us venturing further into the mine field of whizz kid Paul Fox’s twisted sonic imagination
and his personal portable recording studio (currently in residence
in the front room of Fernwood St.) as we juggle duties between home
recording and
Audio-Ill's new studio in Belfast centre,
Additionally, KATCO will appear on The Gerry Anderson Show on Friday
October 9th for a bit of banter and a few numbers, whereupon yet
another lifetime ambition will be fulfilled.
For all you Belfast ones, we’ll be doing an all day event in Laverys
Bunker on the 25th- we’ve missed playing the old home town to be sure,
keep on keeping on,
Caio
KATCO xx.