LIVID FESTIVAL;
Something For Kate back with Diversion
The Gold Coast Bulletin, October 3 2002,

SOMETHING For Kate may have played only a handful of shows this year but the trio has been anything but lazy.

Fans will be treated to a new DVD collection, A Diversion, on October 14.

The band spent several months piecing together 30 live songs, video clips and a mini-documentary, Holding Pattern. But don't expect Something For Kate's own personal Spinal Tap. 

"It's someone else's perspective on following us around for the last two years," says SFK frontman Paul Dempsey.

"There's a lot of waiting around, waiting around at airports, backstage, hotels ... there's a few moments when you see us going a little stir crazy but there's no shots of us getting stuck in pods on stage."

Dempsey heads to the US next month for a solo tour to promote the American release of Echolalia on the Red Ink label. The band will start recording the follow-up to Echolalia this summer. Their Livid Festival dates will be Something For Kate's final Australian shows this year. Bass player Stephanie Ashworth says the band has been busy writing for the new record for the past eight months.

"Paul has been producing for Evan Dando, so he's been busy for the past month or so - and you have to have a life as well," she laughs.

Ashworth says the DVD has no dialogue and was scored by the band.

"It's quite an abstract look at moments you wouldn't normally see," she says.

"It's about the more obscure moments of doing this for a living - not about glorifying musicians.

"It's more about the experience of what goes on. We looked at some other DVDs and saw bands on a platform like special beings. We didn't want to do that - that avenue is so overdone.

"We're opposed to what it says about musicians - we're normal people."

Ashworth says fans can expect to hear some new material in the band's Livid sets.

"It'll be nice to play - we haven't played for quite some time. We'll test some new stuff and mix it up a bit.

"We've kept out of the public this year, kept to ourselves a bit," she says.

"We went to Japan and Hong Kong and did some writing. We have a tradition of going overseas and writing, to get stimulated."

Meanwhile, Rocket From The Crypt are the last band to join the sensational Livid festival bill. Bad Religion were forced to cancel their Australian touring commitments late last month. Livid's organisers, however, have now found a more than worthy replacement in the popular punk shockers.
The band release its 10th album, Live From Camp X-Ray, next month. It isn't actually live and was originally titled Violate Me Like The Disgusting Potato Bug That I Am.

Rocket From The Crypt and Something For Kate play the Livid Festival, at the RNA Showgrounds in Brisbane, on October 12. Rocket also play The Troccadero, in Surfers, on Sunday, October 13.