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lot of fire and passion burning inside me!” she there is always help. Your friends, family, or even I think I don’t want to be anybody else!”
replies. your hobby can help you get back up. Music helped Although she does add that she’d quite like to
With a song on the album called ‘I’ll Save You’, me pick myself up when I was feeling down. Try to be a cat. “They have such fabulous lives.”
Kate confirms that she’d like her music to help oth- see the positives you have and take things a little
ers. “I really hope it does connect to people in a easier. Sometimes you are too hard on yourself. ith an album launch event on October
certain way and makes them feel that they are not You are only human.” W31st in London and a handful of shows in
alone.” The album begins with ‘Drowning’ and later the UK following, we’re told that a Finding Kate
“Music definitely has helped me when I was has a song called ‘Alone’. These songs are very show is “loud and full of energy”. With Kate’s mu-
feeling low and alone. I remember growing up lis- personal to Kate and show fear, sadness and sical theatre background, she hopes that “in a few
tening to some of my favourite bands and just feel- anger. Certain songs reveal the breakdown of a re- years when we hopefully play bigger live shows I’d
ing so inspired and motivated by them,” she says. lationship. Kate says, “I think the single, ‘Get Over like some sort of theatrics or visuals.”
“I always dreamed about becoming a singer and You’, that will be released after the album drops, In ‘I’ll Save You’ Kate sings ‘lights up inside’,
now I am pursuing my dreams, so yes, I definitely definitely made me release certain emotions. It so we ask what makes Kate light up inside. “Meet-
feel that music has changed my life for the better.” woke me up and helped me realise that I didn’t ing people who are passionate about their craft and
The album is about saving someone, saving mean anything to him and I can’t hold on to him their excitement to talk about it and share it with
yourself, falling and trying to get back up again. anymore, it’s time to let go and get over him.” the world, or a homeless person lighting up when
Kate says, “I think everyone goes through tough In ‘White Lies’ Kate sings, ‘I just wanna be you give them some spare change. Seeing some-
periods like that. I feel deep down most of us are somebody else’. She tells us, “When I wrote that one happy really makes me light up inside.”
alone and need some help getting back up but we song with Rushil 3 years ago, I didn’t really feel
are too ashamed to ask. My advice to someone confident in myself. So I felt that line was very We can guarantee that if you take a listen to
who needs help is that you are not alone. Look to powerful. I wanted to be somebody else but I didn’t Finding Kate’s music, you will light up inside. Visit
someone you trust to help you pick yourself up. quite know who. I hadn’t discovered Kate yet. What www.findingkatemusic.com for more info. ‘If I Fall’
Whether you need a good cry, whether you feel you she wanted, what she needed, so I wanted to be is out on November 18th.
have fallen so deep and you can’t get back out, somebody else. Now, I am happy with who I am, so
Words By Shari Black Velvet
FINDING KATE