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“Kat Healy....A combination of well-crafted songs, beautiful voice and delightful stage presence" ...
Iain Bruce
Curriculum Leader/Session Musician
- Jewel and Esk Valley College
"...her musicality is nothing less than exceptional. Shifting effortlessly between joyful, playful, sorrowful and impassioned within a few songs, she held the audience spellbound.
Martin Lennon
Evening News"
- Evening News
Together with the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) and Scottish colleges, we have teamed up in a unique partnership that saw four bands from around the country perform at the prestigious Popkomm festival in Berlin. Popkomm is one of Europe’s premier music industry events - a conference, trade-fair and live showcase platform for new, up-and-coming bands.
Scotland has been at the forefront of pop and rock music education for over 20 years, according to Adam Armit, our co-ordinator for this project. Adam pioneered pop/rock music courses in Scotland and subsequently led a consortium of colleges creating Higher National Diploma qualifications in Music, Music Business and Sound Production.
Colleges around Scotland have just completed the first year of delivery of these new qualifications and this German showcase is in celebration of that. 'SQA and SAC pulled out all the stops to give these young artists the opportunity to reach a wide audience while at the same time showcase Scottish music education', said Qualifications Manager Paul Gallacher.
The bands attending Popkomm were: acoustic duo Afterglow from North Highland College; Hip-hop outfit Empafy, signed to the Urban label at Glasgow’s Stow College; Dirty Sally, a power pop four-piece from James Watt College in Greenock and the singer/songwriter Kat Healy Band from Edinburgh’s Jewel and Esk Valley College.
Given the platform created for these bands, Empafy have been asked by Radio Scotland to write and perform a Christmas song. So watch this space for these bands ongoing success.....
www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/SQAEzineNov06.htm
- Connecting with SQA
Discography
Break Down Demo Session 1:
Break Down
Five Sides
All I Need
Frozen Smile
Burn Out
Weather Man Demo:
Devils Day
Sweet November
Another Way to Fall
'Waiting...' EP (Due for release 2008)
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I was 7 yrs old when I first realized the mark on my lip. I knew it was different. I’m not sure what it was about being 7 yrs old that made me conscious of it, but I had become aware of my own physical ‘make-up’, my appearance, and I have no idea why. I could see that no-else had a mark like mine, and i could see that my teeth were definately more crooked than most. But I remember that at 7years old, I didn’t really care.
There comes a point in life when you have to realize it’s the oddities that make you who you are. A Cliche. But they are your ‘make-up’. My teeth aren’t, and never will be, ‘perfect’. And I have a mark on my lip. ‘So what’?
I was 11 years old when I realized I could sing. I knew I wanted to sing and it was just a matter of finding a way to go about it. So I would sing secretly. I would listen to old tapes. Enjoying the sound they made when it was time to turn them over, the anticipation. I loved the radio, the hiss and crackle, the blatant argument between human hand and technology whilst trying to get good reception. I enjoyed any kind of CD, soundtracks, voices, styles, words and pictures. And when I was lucky enough, and the weather was cold enough, I could sit and listen to my dads old Vinyl, savouring the moment, gently taking it out of its sleeve, placing it under the needle, watching the black circles whir round in time with the songs.
Music was fun. Music was another world, a place I could melt away into and disappear carelessly. If I liked a song then I would have it on repeat for hours, waiting until it had completely and utterly sunk into my bones.
My name is Kat Healy and I have always felt a little 'odd'. I love the colour yellow. I love Bluebells and the fact that my perfume smells like Poppies. I love finding old pairs of jeans and living in them for a while, along with wooly jumpers, and lots of hats. I smoke too much, drink too and I swear too much. I love to laugh, big, dirty, laughter from the insides. And I love to be in love, even if love makes me sad sometimes.
My room is filled with old books that lie around reminding me of something, until I'm restless. And when I’m restless I write. I scribble and stew over words and strange phrases. I get mad, and I get sad, and I wait, until whatever it is, has manifested itself somewhere inside of me, and I sit whilst it comes trickling out. Line by line. Like sand.
Maybe it’s the mark on my lip which has always made me question things in life. Characters, relationships, even losing my own mother. Everything. I wake up most days knowing that I want to see everything as it really is. No fuss. Just the reality of living and trying to live in a world amongst others, amidst a flurry of words and songs, and all the melodies.
And some days I know that I would prefer to just runaway and hide. To not look in the mirror. To not feel insecure. But its those days that make me write and want to know more, and remember more. Its those days that remind me that I have no roots ~ and that i cant afford to buy any ~ so I have a nice guitar instead.
And that does me just fine. Music does me just fine.
My name is Kat Healy and I have a CD called ‘Waiting’ ….. coming soon.….
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