Catcall – ‘Swimming Pool’ (Julian Mendelsohn remix )

Catcall – ‘Swimming Pool’ (Julian Mendelsohn remix )

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Here’s a dandy remix of Swimming Pool by Catcall (aka. Catherine Kelleher) done by Julian Mendelsohn. Hit up swimmingpool.catcallmusic.com to download the track in exchange for an email address.

www.myspace.com/catcallmusic

Big Day Out 2010

(photo: Daniel Boudist)

In just a merry quarter of an hour in the queue, being smacked on the face with Australian flag paraphernalia, beer breath on the back of my neck and the distinct waft of other…organic substances, I’m given a true blue, cordial welcoming to the Sydney Big Day Out.

Still yet to pinpoint what it is exactly that attracts so many to this annual festival of beer, bogans and breasts. If you are aching to read about the unskilled offspring of Keith Allen, Matt Bellamy’s vibrato or any of the other international acts on the bill, you should stop reading now.

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Mailer Daemon – Remixes ‘07-’09

The Panics – Don’t Fight It (Mailer Daemon remix) (mp3)

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Sydney based producer Mailer Daemon have done beats for acts such as Catcall but he has also done a bunch of remixes of the past couple years including songs by The Panics, WOW, The Herd, Richard In Your Mind, Red Riders, Lions At Your Door, and more. He is giving away all these remixes in one neat package, attainable at his website below.

www.blackgallant.com/?p=235

Mailer Daemon ft Catcall and Peach – ‘Bad Move Baby’

Mailer Daemon ft Catcall and Peach – ‘Bad Move Baby’

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Mailer Daemon is a Sydney based dj/remixer, and this is his first original track that I’ve heard with vocals and he’s enlisted Catcall and Sydney radio dj Peach. On his website there is a story on how there three got together in a party and ended up with the idea for this song. He’s got an EP coming out (or is it out already?) featuring collaborations with Kobra Kai and Damned Dirty Apes.

www.blackgallant.com

CHAINGANG: ‘Cut Here’

CHAINGANG- ‘Cut Here’

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CHAINGANG (written as loud as their music, suitable really) have kindly offered us something new from their demo sessions. ‘Cut Here’ is less acerbic than their debut offering, ‘Get Off My Stage’, and focuses more on melody and a post-punk rhythmic aesthetic. The thick, dirty bass is still there, rumbling along and driving ‘Cut Here’ forward. It’s more instantly catchy than ‘Get Off My Stage’ and harbours a more overt upbeat exterior. If you’re in Sydney this Friday, you can go nuts to this song when CHAINGANG support two Who the Hell faves, Catcall and Lions at your Door, at Q Bar.

http://www.myspace.com/chaingangpower

Kiosk: ‘Fuck Dudes’ Live Clip

Kiosk performing live at the Cake Shop in New York City last year.  It’s not the greatest quality vid, but it’s raw as fuck which is part of the reason I wanted to throw it up here.

Also, for those living in Sydney, Cat Kelleher, the vocalist for Kiosk (and you might know her from her solo hip-hop project Catcall) is performing in a play penned by playwright Wayne Tunks called Unrequited, which is on at the Newtown Theatre.  It’s running from May 30 – June 23. Tickets are $27, or $22 if you’re lucky enough to still be a student.  Go, it’ll be cool.  They’ve even got a MySpace site – www.myspace.com/unrequitedtheplay.

http://www.myspace.com/kiosk

Catcall: ‘The Body Kiss’

photo by Jack Mannix

Catcall – ‘The Body Kiss’

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Another track from the beautiful Catherine Kelleher aka Catcall.

www.myspace.com/catcallmusic

Catcall

photo by Luke Austin

Catcall – ‘Diss’

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I’ve seen Catherine Kelleher performed in Kiosk many many times and have seen her hung around the Sydney scene for a number of years but I didn’t actually get to talk to her until we met in Meredith last December. I was hanging out with a Melbourne crew I met shortly after moving down (they eventually became Gameboy/Gamegirl) and she happened to be friends with them. I am pretty sure she was at least as intoxicated as me at the time, it was dark and we were moving through the campsite to get something from her tent. I held on to every last bit of sobriety I could muster so I could at least get some get-to-know conversation going. It’s weird how I’ve heard her songs, seen her on stage and wrote about her and finally getting to know sort of completes the experience. And yes she is really lovely.

Catcall is her new solo project and all the songs on myspace is quite basic and I’m guessing these are just home demos to what will shape up to be more elaborately arranged tracks. Diss is perfect for an introductory song, it’s declarative, flows along at a pace she’s obviously comfortable with, and provides the listener with multiple choices on where to go from here. This should be good, expect to hear more soon.

Sydneysiders: she is playing with Deerhoof and My Disco at the Factory Theatre tomorrow, go to this gig!

www.myspace.com/catcallmusic