You know when there are those moments in your life that were always going to happen? For me, finding the music of The Cat Empire is one of the biggest ones. Within the space of a few days, I saw them play for the first time at the Darling Harbour Jazz Festival, and my mum brought home their first album because it was playing in JB Hi-Fi and she thought I'd like it. I was in my final year of high school in the early 2000s in Sydney and loved pretty much anything with a trumpet in it, and I loved it. Their self titled first album stayed on pretty high rotation in my discman (yes discman) until a trip to visit my aunt, when I bought their sophomore release, "Two Shoes" and listened to it for like a week on repeat. It was at this point that I fell in love real hard, and they have been my ride or die favourite band ever since. It has been a wild ride. From making new friends at tiny jazz clubs in Melbourne, to seeing them at venues all over the world, to being one of their f...
An Aussie gal in Canada, on an adventure of style, mental health, and everything else!