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"Pocketknife" is the debut album from Berlin-based Australian Kat Frankie.

It looks like this:


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In Deutschland jetzt erhältlich von iTunes und: www.amazon.de . www.musicload.de . www.finetunes.net Mehr infos bei: www.solaris-empire.de

"Pocketknife" was released in Australia 3rd September through Vitamin records.
Available everywhere (including iTunes). Buy it online at: www.vitamin.net.au

Bitte besuchen Sie/Please visit: www.myspace.com/soundslikekatfrankie

Danke/Thankyou.
contact@katfrankie.com


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Tourdates:

08 Mar 2008 Berlin - Cafe Zapata
27 Mar 2008 Berlin - Intersoup

01 Apr 2008 Jena - Cafe Wagner
02 Apr 2008 Gera - Songtage at Pegasus
03 Apr 2008 Magdeburg - Songtage at Feuerwache
04 Apr 2008 Apolda - literaturweinstube
11 Apr 2008 Katoomba - Clarendon Guest House
12 Apr 2008 Sydney - Surry Hills Festival
13 Apr 2008 Sydney - Cooks River Festival
17 Apr 2008 Melbourne - Northcote Social Club
18 Apr 2008 Sydney - Spectrum
19 Apr 2008 Nowra - Tea Club (with Lucie Thorne)
20 Apr 2008 Bulli - Heritage Hotel
24 Apr 2008 Cronulla - Brass Monkey

15 Mai 2008 Leipzig - Cafe Mule
17 Mai 2008 Saarbrücken - Sparte 4
18 Mai 2008 Frankfurt a.M. - Dreikönigskeller
20 Mai 2008 München - Südstadt
21 Mai 2008 Weimar - Kasseturm
29 Mai 2008 Berlin - Bang Bang Club
30 Mai 2008 Bielefeld - Movie
31 Mai 2008 Hamburg - Mobile Blues Club

19 Jun 2008 Brussels - Beursschouwburg (with Shannon Wright)
26 Jun 2008 Brussels - Cafe Walvis
28 Jun 2008 Warsaw - Coffee Karma

09 Jul 2008 Milan - Careof C/O Gallery
13 Jul 2008 Köln - Blue Shell
25 Jul 2008 Berlin - Oxident

16 Aug 2008 Berlin - Summerize Festival (band show)


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Biography:

"...a beautifully obscure blur of acoustic melody and stone cold lyrical edge."
Duncan Laing, bbc.co.uk


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Oh if only Kat Frankie could make up her mind about you. One moment a seduction; a tender whisper into a willing ear. The next howling accusation and bruising rage. Indeed, not all of Kat Frankie’s show is a comfortable experience; much of her songwriting lies within the contrast between ugliness and beauty. Yet amongst all this, there will be songs about cities, and songs about ambition, love and mediocrity. Songs about travelling, and songs about happiness. Or unhappiness...

Kat Frankie spent her youth in the sunburnt suburbs of Sydney, scribing countless songs in her parents’ sweltering attic. She moved to Berlin in December 2004, where she is now known for her passionate and dynamic live shows. In September 2007, Kat's debut album, “Pocketknife” was released in Australia, and January 2008 saw it's long-awaited release in Germany. "Pocketknife" has been highly praised by critics in both Australia and Deutschland - Rolling Stone Germany notably awarded the album four stars - rare for a debut.

Kat has previously released an EP titled “outside.now.” and has appeared on several independent compilations from Australia and Germany. She also features in BerlinSong, a music documentary made by Uli Schueppel ("The Road to God Knows Where" with Nick Cave) about songwriters in Berlin. The film premiered at the 2007 Berlinale Film Festival, and will be released in cinemas across Germany in April 2008. For more information please go to www.berlinsong.com

Her upcoming April Australian tour features Kat in stripped-back acoustic mode, giving space to her incredible voice; reaching from tender, sparse melancholy to dramatic, soaring aggression.


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Reviews:
"Her songs are dark and feisty, almost brutal at times, then again gentle and fragile. Frankie’s songwriting covers a large spectrum and an incredibly versatile voice precisely portrays all that rage, suffering and love. **** (4 stars)" Rolling Stone, Germany

"Kat Frankie sucked me kicking and screaming into a vortex of deep emotion, where the audio-landscapes were so vividly acute that I could have reached out and touched them." Jarred James, The Brag

"This woman has talent: she can pant and purr with the best of them, effect a PJ Harvey-ish snarl, turn out clever pop like Aimee Mann (The Tops) and coo prettily like Bic Runga without the eye shadow." Sandra Bridekirk, The Australian

"Pocketknife sees Frankie craft dense, rich, dramatic folk songs. It has the air of certainty and confidence of someone like Kate Bush and has not only sound songwriting, but decent arrangements too." Michael Pincott, Rave Magazine

"Passionate yet dark, fragile yet brutal, beautiful yet intimidating." Justin Grey, Time Out Magazine


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Reviews in full:

Rave Magazine (Michael Pincott)
It's nice to hear a record that does more than it has to. Moving to Berlin in 2004 and living in Sydney prior to that, Frankie has sent Pocketknife into the world as her first LP, far removed from vacuous candy-coated pop ditties. Pocketknife sees Frankie craft dense, rich, dramatic folk songs. It has the air of certainty and confidence of someone like Kate Bush and has not only sound songwriting, but decent arrangements too. Often a singer-songwriter's record is a vehicle for a vocal performance and the instruments are an afterthought to fill in the silence, but this record actually sounds as if it has been fully and properly thought out. Boy Wolf is a highlight, serving not only to display Frankie's quite excellent voice (not too shrill, not too deep) but it builds up in an accomplished way that quietly nods 'talent,' and it's a recurring theme for most of the record.


The Australian (Sandra Bridekirk)
Australian-born, Berlin-based Kat Frankie has produced a very special debut album, a rich, often quite perfect body of work that unfolds delicately, coaxing you with a prelude, then a soulful, beautifully simple guitar-backed slow ballad (Boy Wolf), before launching into the deliciously yearning Everything Everything, with its shuffling drums, trembling strings and Frankie's girl-on-her-knees vocals. This woman has talent: she can pant and purr with the best of them, effect a PJ Harvey-ish snarl, turn out clever pop like Aimee Mann (The Tops) and coo prettily like Bic Runga without the eye shadow. The songs range from the folksy tap and lilt of Fake to the power of Blameless; there's even a protest song, Berlin Cops, a brash and angry swipe. The single Serves You Right for Using Violence is an interesting choice, its impassioned, driving intensity broken by an oddly peaceful interlude: the eye of the storm, as it were. Back to tour the east coast of Australia this month, Frankie has received consistently good live reviews overseas, so she may be one to catch. 4/5


Groupie Magazine (Mel McDonald)
Originally hailing from Sydney, female indie folk artist Kat Frankie moved to Berlin in 2004. Pocketknife is her debut album and is chock full of beautiful melo-dramatic folk songs. The intelligent singer songwriter found inspiration in Berlin's new folk underground scene, and is featured in a new documentary by Uli Schueppel (Road to God Knows Where with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds). Stand out tracks on the album include Everything Everything and The Tops which evokes a cold grey Berlin day. East or West. Think Sarah Blasko with more grunt. 4/5


Time Out Magazine (Justin Grey)
Sydney-born singer-songwriter Kat Frankie relocated to the songwriting inspiring locale of Berlin in 2005, and from there she's penned almost all but one of the 13 cuts on her debut album Pocketknife. A stylistically diverse album that's surprisingly confident, Frankie's songs are for the most part situated in an acoustic base and are often fleshed-out with beautiful string arrangements. But undoubtedly the most impressive facet of Frankie's repertoire is her diverse voice itself - a voice that sounds equally comfortable delivering frantic, rhythmic whispers ('Fake'), tender, sparse melancholy ('Going Away', 'Say It Isn't So'), and dramatic, soaring aggression ('Blameless', 'Come Quickly').

The impressive scope that Frankie takes in on Pocketknife is exemplified by the album's frailest track, 'The Tops', and the angst-fuelled, dramatic closing track 'Serves You Right For Using Violence'. Merging these two polar opposites is the wonderful 'The Wrong Side Of Midnight'. Recorded in various basements, bedrooms and rehearsal rooms throughout Berlin, Pocketknife is cloaked with a sense of place that actually feels like Berlin might feel from an outsider's perspective - passionate yet dark, fragile yet brutal, beautiful yet intimidating. 3.5/5


The Brag (Jared James)
Pocketknife is the debut album from Sydney born Berliner, Kat Frankie but it certainly does not show. Melodramatic in the best way, Kat Frankie sucked me kicking and screaming into a vortex of deep emotion, where the audio-landscapes were so vividly acute that I could have reached out and touched them. In an age of pretty and melancholic female folksters who have quaint voices and even quainter songs, Kat Frankie offers a certain degree of fighting spirit and grit. It may be because she only began her music career after moving to Berlin, the city is rumoured to have an increasingly vibrant, underground folk scene.

Kat Frankie proves her voice is versatile. She breathily and delicately touches well-written melodies in 'Boy Wolf' while mercilessly executing PJ Harvey-like growls in 'Serves You Right for Using Violence'. In the tradition of the 90s angry femme, there is a degree of vindictiveness in Pocketknife which makes it somewhat exclusionary. Despite the power of her voice, Kat defiles herself, mimicking Sarah Blasko's vocal style in 'Everything Everything'. This is one of the few trivial grievances I found with an album that contains epic, emotional choruses rivalling the best. However this could be one of those albums that few dudes will buy into (unless their girlfriends make them.)

Perfect for rainy winters day bus trips. Great for hot summer days spent dreaming about a rainy winters day. 3.5/5