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Strange Girl - Kate

by Chris Gilbey at 05:28PM (EST) on October 22, 2007 | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Back in 1968 I was in London and was a guitarist and songwriter in a band called Kate.

We were signed to CBS Records.

Our first single was called "Strange Girl" and it was almost a hit. Got great reviews including Record of the Week in Melody Maker (thank you, Chris Welch) and got a reasonable amount of airplay.

But it wasn't a hit. So no cigar. We recorded a couple of other singles and had an abortive tour of Germany and then the band broke up. These things happen!

I am now writing a book about those times...

And I decided to google Strange Girl and Kate. I was totally blown away to find that the single had been on a compliation album of post psychedelic tracks from the UK from that era and to hear the song on a podcast from someone in the UK. Wonderful. Have a listen to it. It sounds pretty good!

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Re: Strange Girl - Kate

by Anonymous on Tue 12 Feb 2008 05:24 AM EST | Permanent Link

It's an awesome track! I just googled it a moment ago and found this. I was listening to it on the Fading Yellow comp and thinking how can a band called Kate have existed and made such an impressive song and there just to be no record of it existing! It reminds me a little of that Edwyn Collins song, Never met a girl like you before. Hoorah for the internet, eh? Is that all you did? What was the b-side?

Tom (aged 2 in 1968)

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