On the Town
with Something for Kate's Paul Dempsey

Q. The first single off the new album, Echolalia, is Monsters. Who or what are Monsters?
A. Everyone knows the feeling that you're down or you're in a hole or you're up against a wall and you've got no-one to blame but yourself. So you have to overcome something that's in your own head - they're the monsters.

Q. Is Monsters your favourite track?
A. I feel like each one of them is capturing something that I was going through at the time.

Q. So far you've only released albums in Australia. Do you have game plan for world domination?
A. We're trying to get our records released in as many places as possible so that we can share our music with as many people as possible. But world domination? Not quite.

Q. What kind of impact does touring have on your social life?
A. We've been doing this for so long now that our social life exists on the touring circuit. We see our friends all over the country.

Q. Do you enjoy seeing other musicians play?
A. Yeah. If it's a band that your want to see, then you go and see them. If there are bands we like then chances are they'll be playing with us at some point.

Q. Name a band you'd go out and see.
A. Augie March

Q. Any memorable gigs that spring to mind?
A. We played a festival in Brisbane and a storm broke out as we were onstage.. The rain was coming down, the field turned to mud and the crowd started having mud fights. Under-18's started seeking shelter in the alcohol tent, which prompted the police to move in and sort everybody out, which eventually turned into a riot, with riot police and military police and arrests.

Q. What's one of your favourite restaurants?
A. Kanpai, a Japanese restaurant on Chapel St. Aya's another Japanese restaurant, in Armadale on High St.

Q. And a favourite drinking hole in Melbourne?
A. The Flying Duck's a nice little old pub in a back street of Prahran off the main strip.

Something For Kate's new album, Echolalia, is released Monday.

Thanks to Jim Bo for typing this up


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