Something for Kate

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Something For Kate
Background information
Origin	Melbourne, Australia
Genre(s)	Alternative rock Australian rock
Years active	1994–present
Label(s)	Sony BMG
Website	Official website
Members
Paul Dempsey Stephanie Ashworth Clint Hyndman
Former members
Julian Carroll Toby Ralph

Something For Kate is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Members include songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Paul Dempsey, drummer Clint Hyndman, and bassist Stephanie Ashworth. The group was founded in 1994, with Julian Carroll as the original bass player. Something For Kate have widespread popularity in Australia. Their most recent album Desert Lights was released on the 1 July 2006, and debuted at #1 on the Australian ARIA charts and by the end of the month was certified gold. They have been one of the most popular and enduring Australian alternative/rock bands of the 1990s -- in 2003 they were nominated for three ARIA Awards -- and have a dedicated fanbase.

1 Members
2 The band's name
3 Discography
4 Videography
5 External links

[edit] Members

Dempsey and Hyndman met at Padua College, Mornington Peninsula. Ashworth joined in 1998 after a distinguished career in the band Sandpit, turning down an offer to play with American band Hole.

Ashworth is the only current non-founding member. Previous bassists include:

Julian Carroll 1995-1997 (Carroll played with the band on 2 September 2004 at a special one-off 10-year celebration gig at Melbourne's Prince of Wales.)
Toby Ralph 1997-1998

Touring members have included:

Wally Gunn - second guitar and keyboards.
Phillip 'Pip' Branson - second guitar and violin.
Ex-member of Sydney band Sidewinder, and currently (2005) playing with band as "Pip Branson Corporation".
Simon Burke - keyboards

[edit] The band's name

Early on they used the name "El Presidentè", before changing that to "Fish of the Day". The publican at their first gig suggested they change it. The new words were chosen from a shopping list, Kate being Paul Dempsey's Jack Russell terrier. Fans often shorten the name to SFK.

Something for Kate and Paul Dempsey have played secret shows under pseudonyms. Some of the names used include:

George Kaplan and the Editors (referencing The Official Fiction)
Max Planck and the horse he rode in on (referencing The Official Fiction)
Captain Pinstripe (referencing two of their songs from Elsewhere for 8 Minutes)
Jerry & the Manmade Sharks (referencing Beautiful Sharks)
Transparanoia (referencing Desert Lights)

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Elsewhere for 8 Minutes (1997)
Beautiful Sharks (1999)
Q & A with Dean Martin (reissue) (2000)
Echolalia (2001)
The Official Fiction (2003) #1 Australia
Phantom Limbs:Selected B-Sides (2004)
Desert Lights (2006) #1 Australia

[edit] EPs

...Answer to Both Your Questions (1996)
Intermission (1997)

[edit] Singles

"Dean Martin" (1996)

From Elsewhere for 8 Minutes:

"Captain (Million Miles An Hour)" (1997)
"Prick" (1997)
"Working Against Me" (1998)
"Roll Credit" (1998)

Harpoon/Clint (1998) (Split A-side with Jebediah. Two different versions released, SFK's vinyl, and Jebediah's CD version (Harpoon EP) both with different cover art.

From Beautiful Sharks:

"Electricity" (1999)
"Hallways" (1999)
"Whatever You Want" (1999)
"The Astronaut" (2000)

From Echolalia:

"Monsters" (2001)
"Three Dimensions" (2001)
"Twenty Years" (2001)
"Say Something" (2002)

From The Official Fiction:

"Déjà Vu" (2003)
"Song For A Sleepwalker" (2003)
"Best Weapon" (2003) (promo only)
"Moving Right Along" (2004)

From Desert Lights:

"Cigarettes And Suitcases" (2006)
"Oh Kamikaze" (2006)
"California' (2007)

[edit] Videography

All music videos were directed by Bart Boghesi unless otherwise stated.

There have been two official video releases, a VHS only video titled Big Screen Television (also referred to as The World According to Bart) and a DVD titled A Diversion. The DVD features a short film with a soundtrack composed by Paul Dempsey, and 29 live video clips from various concerts.

The film clips from "Subject to Change" to "Whatever you Want", along with a live version of "Truly" (recorded at the UNSW Roundhouse), appear on Big Screen Television.

"Subject to Change"
"Dean Martin"
"Captain" (1997)
"Prick" (1997) - Directed by Toby Ralph
"Working Against Me" (1998)
"Roll Credit" - First appearance of Stephanie Ashworth
"Electricity" (1999)
"Hallways" (1999)
"Whatever You Want" (1999)
"The Astronaut" (2000) - Directed by Morgan Christie
"Monsters" (2001)
"Three Dimensions" (2001)
"Twenty Years" (2001)
"Say Something" (2002) - Directed by Morgan Christie
"You Only Hide" (2002) - Video clip featured on the band's DVD as an extra
"Déjà Vu" (2003) - Directed by Grant Marshall
"Song For A Sleepwalker" (2003)
"Best Weapon" (2003) - This was a "non-commercial single" and the film clip featured the band playing live at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney
"Moving Right Along" (2004) - Directed by Rupert Glasson
"Cigarettes And Suitcases" (2006) - Directed by Matt Weston of Syndicate Films
"Oh Kamikaze" (2006)
"California" (2007)