Kat Frankie

Kat Frankie at the ZMF 2018 in Freiburg

Kat Frankie in Olli Schulz's band ( Open Flair 2015)

Kat Frankie in the Lausch Lounge in Hamburg (2013)

Kat Frankie (born July 8, 1978 in Sydney ) is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist who has lived in Berlin since the end of 2004 .

Life

Kat Frankie grew up in the suburbs of Sydney. She started writing songs when she was around six years old. The Folk -Plattensammlung her mother influenced her musical development. Influenced by Simon & Garfunkel , Bread and Carly Simon , Frankie developed her love for folk melodies and pop ballads. She taught herself to play the guitar . Apart from a time in the school choir , she received no formal musical training, but attended the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in Paddington.

Meanwhile inspired by role models like PJ Harvey and Fiona Apple , Kat Frankie made her first public appearance as a singer-songwriter in June 2002 at the Harp Hotel in Sydney. After a year as a soloist, she was accompanied by Tim Chamberlain (bass guitar) and Tim Marceau (drums) from June 2003. In December 2003 Frankie released her first CD , the EP Outside. Now. The recordings were made in August 2003 within three days at BJB Studios in Surry Hills / Sydney, with Scott Horscroft at the controls.

Despite various appearances in clubs and at festivals, the music remained a minor matter for Frankie during this time. Given the high cost level in Sydney, she could not imagine a musical career there. After studying design, she earned her living in an architecture office as an interior designer .

In December 2004 Kat Frankie moved to Berlin in search of creative impulses, initially intended as a year abroad. Due to the many opportunities to perform and the low rental prices, she was able to concentrate fully on the music there, so that her new home became a second home. With the first Berlin song "The Wrong Side of Midnight" she won a Jaxter Award for young Australian songwriters. In Berlin, Frankie found a kind of musical community that Sydney couldn't offer her, and in a short time she has become a fixture in the very lively singer-songwriter underground .

In 2006 the filmmaker Uli M. Schueppel portrayed this scene by accompanying Kat Frankie and six other musicians from all over the world with the camera through their adopted home Berlin-Kreuzberg . He asked each of them to write a song about Berlin. This is how Frankie's "The Faint-hearted Ones" came about. The film BerlinSong was shown for the first time in February 2007 at the 57th Berlinale and later also at several other film festivals . The German theatrical release was on September 4, 2008, but was limited to a small group of arthouse cinemas . ( BerlinSong was released on DVD in September 2009. )

In Berlin, Frankie also met her fellow countryman Simon Ayton from Melbourne , who was at her side as a producer and drummer while working on her debut album Pocketknife , which was completed in the summer of 2006. In February 2007 the single "The Tops" was released in the iTunes Store . In August 2007 the single "Serves You Right for Using Violence" followed. The album Pocketknife was released in Australia in early September 2007. In Germany it has been available from online music services since November 2007 and on CD since January 2008.

In May 2010 Kat Frankie finished work on her second album The Dance of a Stranger Heart and founded the independent label cellphan . The release under her own label took place on September 3, 2010. While working on this album, she began to experiment a cappella with a loop pedal by layering her own vocal phrases one after the other to form a polyphonic choir. She has also used this arrangement method for live performances. This is how the album title "Born Clever" came about, as well as the single "Women leave", which was released on October 14, 2011 worldwide via online music services.

From March to November 2015 she was on tour with Olli Schulz for his album Feelings aus der Asche , on which she also sang. Furthermore, the title music "When You're Near to Me" for the talk show Schulz and Böhmermann was created from a collaboration between Frankie and Get Well Soon . Together with the Cologne musician Chris Klopfer, she is also the duo KEØMA . In 2016 they took part in the competition Our Song for Stockholm with the title "Protected" .

Her album Bad Behavior , released in 2018, is presented by Frankie as part of her own tour of Germany in March and April of the same year. Numerous festival appearances have been announced for summer 2018.

Discography

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Albums

Bad behavior   DE 72 02/09/2018 (1 week)

Kat Frankie at the Haldern Pop Festival 2019

Albums

• Pocketknife (September 2007; Vitamin Records), AUS / (November 2007 / January 2008; Solaris Empire), D
• The Dance of a Stranger Heart (September 2010; Cellphan), D / A / CH
• Please Don't Give Me What I Want (September 2012 ;zellephan), D / A / CH
• Bad Behavior (January 2018, Greenland) D / A / CH

Singles / EPs

• "Outside. Now." EP (December 2003; Waterfront Records) / (April 2008; Vitamin Records), AUS
• "The Tops" (February 2007; iTunes ), AUS / D
• "Serves You Right for Using Violence" / "Treading Water" (August 2007; Vitamin Records / iTunes), AUS
• "Leaving Women" (October 2011; Cell Phan)

• "Bad Behavior" (September 2017, Greenland); a video clip was created for this

• "Home" (December 2017, Greenland); with video

• "You / I" (November 2018, Greenland)

Compilation Contributions

• Jaxter Award Winners (2005, AUS): "The Wrong Side of Midnight"
• Berlin Songs (November 2005, D): "Fake"
• Then by Night… The Sounds of Manchester Lane (2006, AUS): "Nobody Else"
• Independent State of Yorkshire (January 2007, UK): "Everything Everything"
• Berlin Songs Vol. 2 (July 2007, D): "Cards"
• BerlinSong - Songs from the Film (August 2008; Solaris Empire, D): "The Faint-hearted Ones"
• eighth music - new berlin talent (2008; Berlin Music Commission, D): Everything Everything
• Berlin Songs Vol. 3 (December 2009, D): "Wonder"
• Reeperbahn Festival 2010 Compilation (September 2010, D): "Love Me"
• Schulz & Böhmermann - The Original Soundtrack (together with Get Well Soon ) (2016, D)
• Clueso - New Beginning (2016, D): "If you love"
• Casper & Marteria - "Think of you" (on the collaboration album by Casper & Marteria) (August 2018)

Awards

• 2005: Jaxter Artist Award in the category "Instrumental / Acoustic / Folk / World"
• 2005: Pacific Songwriting Award
• 2018: VIA Awards Best Act
• 2018: Prize for pop culture in the category "Favorite Solo Artist" (Bad Behavior)

Filmography

• BerlinSong (2007), a music documentary by Uli M. Schueppel , contribution to the 57th Berlinale

tape

• Former:
  • Tim Marceau: Drums on Outside. Now.
  • Tim Chamberlain: Electric bass on Outside. Now.
  • Simon Ayton: drums on pocket knife
  • Steffen Schlosser (Kitty Solaris): drums
  • Karen Weber / Tobias Vethake: Cello
  • Dan Katz: drums
  • Robert Kretzschmar: drums
  • Ben Kaan: electric guitar and keyboard / piano

• current live cast:
  • Kat Frankie: vocals, acoustic guitar and electric guitar
  • Fernando 'Mowat' Mujica: vocals and keyboard / piano
  • Richie Setford: vocals and electric guitar
  • Albertine Sarges (Itaca): vocals and keyboard / piano
  • Stella Veloce: cello and electric guitar
  • Chris Rodriguez (Gunslinger): electric bass and double bass
  • Hanno Stick (Judith Holofernes): drums
  • Special guest Some concerts in Berlin - Heidi Mockert (Berlin Counterpoint): bassoon

Web links

Commons : Kat Frankie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• official website (English)
• Kat Frankie on Myspace
• Zellephan (English)
• Kat Frankie at laut.de
• Kat franking at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal MySpace page
2. ↑ Tagesspiegel, May 27, 2008
3. ↑ smh.com.au
4. ↑ Australian Music Online ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ "On the Tracks: Kat Frankie", radiobremen.de/nordwestradio  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ fasterlouder.com.au ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ theage.com.au
8. ↑ Arte  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ The Internet Movie Database
10. ↑ BerlinSong.com
11. ↑ goodmovies.de ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Simon Ayton ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ zellephan.com ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ^ "Kat Frankie in Cafe Gramsci" , gig-guide.de
15. ↑ Charts DE
16. ↑ Official video clip for "Bad Behavior" on YouTube
17. ↑ Official video clip for "Home" on YouTube
18. ^ Clueso: Clueso | New beginning. Retrieved February 26, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Design Republic ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ^ Pacific Songwriting Competition
21. ↑ Winner 2018. preisfuerpopkultur.de, October 19, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .