The Cat Empire

By: JenWilson | in: Music |

The Cat Empire

Hi there, my name is Jen Wilson and I work for The Music Network magazine in little old Australia. Just to give you a bit of background, The Music Network is Australia’s only music industry trade publication and has been running since 1994. I’m the Editor, so I get the awesome job of checking out some of this country’s finest musicians week in, week out.

One such act I saw just last weekend - The Cat Empire. The name may be familiar to some of you but for those of you who haven’t yet experienced them, I suggest you do yourself a favour and check out www.myspace.com/thecatempire. Live, they are just something else. As an 8-piece band, they stretch themselves across countless genres, including funk, soul, reggae, jazz and blues - and just when you think you’ve seen it all, singer 1 (Felix) jumps on the percussion and bangs the crap out of the drums and singer 2 (Harry) grabs his trumpet and gives it a good belting. Just a handful of the reasons why they’ve just beaten You Am I’s record of the most sold-out concerts at Sydney’s 1,500 capacity Metro Theatre in a row (8 in 7 days, in case you were wondering).

Their third studio album as The Cat Empire, No Longer There, reached Gold sales after just two weeks after debuting at #2 on the ARIA charts.

And we wonder why.

The Cat Empire: Hello

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZT86m0L7_k

The Cat Empire: No Longer There

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_YhI7X6HTs

[The Cat Empire: Official Site]

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Posted on October 24, 2007

Comments

6 Responses to “The Cat Empire”

Charbarred on October 24th, 2007 5:31 am

Welcome aboard Jen!

Kendall on October 24th, 2007 7:45 am

Interesting mix of pop, hip-hop, and brit-pop. Even though they aren’t british. Welcome to the club!

Alibastard on October 24th, 2007 8:31 am

Hey Jen! Looking forward to hearing more!

DThompson on October 24th, 2007 12:33 pm

“Hello”’s catchy. Good write up Jen

mozzer on October 25th, 2007 7:30 am

great stuff!

Lee H on October 26th, 2007 3:00 pm

I heard their song “Sly” sometime this year for the first time. I thought it was new until I found out only about a week ago that it came out in 2005. I need to keep up on my Australian soul, reggae, jazz, blues bands.
Welcome to the fold Jen.