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The Cat Empire is a six-piece band, based in Melbourne, Australia. Their sound is often described as a fusion of jazz, ska, funk and rock with heavy Latin influences. The band has toured extensively throughout Australia, the US and Europe and has released four distinct albums with the first two reaching double platinum status and the third receiving an ARIA Music Award for best world album. Their fourth album, So Many Nights, was released on the 22nd of September, 2007.[1] Image File history File links Cat_Empire. ...
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Oliver Ollie McGill (born 2 November, 1982) is an Australian fusion musician best known for his role as the keyboard player and backing vocalist for The Cat Empire. ...
Ryan Monro, born in 1981 in Australia is a band member in The Cat Empire. ...
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The Cat Empire is a six-piece band, based in Melbourne, Australia. ...
The Cat Empire is a six-piece band, based in Melbourne, Australia. ...
This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ...
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The 20th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) will be held on October 29, 2006 at the Acer Arena at the Sydney Olympic Park complex, thus continuing the previous years innovation of televising the awards on Sunday evening. ...
So Many Nights will be The Cat Empires fourth studio album. ...
Currently, the Cat Empire comprises Ollie McGill (keyboard and backing vocals), Ryan Monro (bass and backing vocals), Felix Riebl (percussion and vocals), Harry James Angus (trumpet and vocals), Will Hull-Brown (drums) and Jamshid "Jumps" Khadiwhala (decks, percussion). They also have guest musicians, who make guest appearances with the band on a recurring basis. A strong, recurrent theme of their music is a rejection of materialism, war and intolerance and an enthusiastic embrace of cultural diversity and a simple, carefree life. The band treats their fans kindly, doing things like sending out personally messaged and autographed postcards to members of their volunteer promotional teams across Australia. Oliver Ollie McGill (born 2 November, 1982) is an Australian fusion musician best known for his role as the keyboard player and backing vocalist for The Cat Empire. ...
Ryan Monro, born in 1981 in Australia is a band member in The Cat Empire. ...
Symbol used by The Cat Empire, a mixture of a crown and cats eye. ...
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The Cat Empire is a six-piece band, based in Melbourne, Australia. ...
The Cat Empire is a six-piece band, based in Melbourne, Australia. ...
The band's name was created by Felix Riebl's younger brother, Max, and its distinctive cat's eye icon was created by Ian McGill, Ollie McGill's father.
Beginnings The Cat Empire began as a trio with Oliver McGill on keyboards, Felix Riebl on percussion and vocals and Ryan Monro on double bass in late 1999 and started playing a wide variety of gigs in Melbourne. The band soon expanded in 2001 adding Harry James Angus on trumpet, Will Hull-Brown on drums and Jamshid "Jumps" Khadiwala as a DJ. This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ...
By late 2001, the band was appearing in the Speigeltent at the Melbourne Festival. The band prepared an independent single "Feline" (plus EP Live at Adelphia) at the end of that year. In early 2002, the band played a series of gigs at the Adelaide Festival of Arts. Later that year, they were the headline act at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and St Kilda Film Festival in March. The Melbourne International Arts Festival (MIAF) is held each October in a number of venues across Melbourne, Australia. ...
North Terrace, Adelaide - Cultural Precinct The Adelaide Festival of Arts is a prestigious arts festival held biannually in Adelaide, South Australia. ...
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St Kilda ( ) is an inner city suburb of the Victorian capital of Melbourne, Australia. ...
The band commenced its first overseas tour on the west coast of the United States playing to sellout crowds in the Matrix in San Francisco and playing at the Napa Valley Wine Auction in June 2002. The band received a Music for the Future to fund the recording of album The Sun at the Adelphia studio in Melbourne before flying out to the Edinburgh Festival where they played sixteen successive shows at the Late'n'Live show between 3am and 5am. The band returned to Melbourne for the 2002 Melbourne Festival and played a series of sell-out performances in Melbourne, with Kate Ceberano appearing as a guest vocalist at their final show of the year. The Matrix was a club in San Francisco in the late 1960s. ...
The Sun is an album by The Cat Empire recorded in June 2002, and is a follow-up to their album Live @ Adelphia. The album was never released for retail sale but was sold at performances during their American tour and, as such, there are very few authentic copies of...
There is no one Edinburgh Festival but those using the term are usually referring to the collection of various festivals in August and early September of each year in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...
Kate Ceberano, born 17 November 1966, is an award winning Australian pop vocalist entertainer, and Scientologist. ...
 The Cat Empire logo, combining a crown and a cat's eye, known as "Pablo". Image File history File links Cat_Empire_logo. ...
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Recording career
2003 The band recorded its debut studio album, The Cat Empire, in seven months during 2003 with producer Andy Baldwin in Melbourne. It recorded the album in between touring Australia playing at the St Kilda Festival with Kate Ceberano and appearing at the Byron Bay Blues & Roots Festival in April 2003. The band was nominated in two categories at the Australian Jazz Awards. The band successfully applied for an International humpways grant from The Australian Arts Council. The Cat Empire is the self-titled studio debut album of Melbourne band The Cat Empire. ...
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The St Kilda Festival in 2005 The St Kilda Festival is a community festival held in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. ...
Kate Ceberano, born 17 November 1966, is an award winning Australian pop vocalist entertainer, and Scientologist. ...
The East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival is an annual music festival held for five days over the Easter long weekend at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. ...
The band was featured in a BBC Television 4 on the 2003 WOMAD Festival where the band appeared. Their track "Hello" was placed on high rotation on BBC Radio 1 in August 2003. The band's growing live and critical reputation put them in a great position to approach record companies for a record deal for their self-financed, self-titled debut album in the middle of 2003. The band signed a deal with EMI Virgin Records subsidiary. The band also signed a deal in the UK with an independent company. This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ...
World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) is a festival started in England in 1982. ...
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The first single "Hello" was released in October 2003 with a film clip that was Channel V's clip of the week. The Cat Empire was released in November 2003, debuting in the top 20 of the ARIA Top 50 album chart with Triple J nominating it as their album of the week in November. High profile appearances on Rove (Live) with Rove McManus and The Panel on Network Ten helped raise the profile of the album helping it to go gold in Australia by December 2003. The band finished 2003 playing high profile gigs at festivals like Homebake and the Falls Festival before headlining the Melbourne New Year's Eve celebrations at Federation Square. They also played at Woodford Folk Festival. Channel [V] is an international music channel chain. ...
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For other uses, see JJJ. Triple J is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ...
Rove, formerly Rove Live is a Logie Award winning Australian weekly television talk show hosted by and named after Perth-born comedian Rove McManus. ...
John Rove McManus (born January 21, 1974) is a Gold Logie Award winning Australian variety show host, and owner of the production company Roving Enterprises. ...
The Panel is an Australian television show, first aired in 1998, and was very popular in its first few years. ...
Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australias three commercial television networks, available in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in Australia. ...
Homebake is an annual Australian rock festival, featuring an all-Australian lineup (with the occasional artist from New Zealand). ...
The Falls Festival is a New Years Eve music festival, held annually in Marion Bay, Tasmania and Lorne, Victoria Australia since 1993. ...
Federation Square (or Fed Sq) is a cultural precinct in the city of Melbourne, Australia. ...
2004 "Days Like These" was the second single reaching the top 40 of the ARIA singles charts in early 2004. The band would play a double bill with Ozomatli in Sydney and Melbourne in January 2003 before starting a 35 date 2004 tour of Australia playing to 100,000 and closing the main stage at the East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival in 2004. The Cat Empire would also perform as a support act to James Brown in his 2004 Australian tour. Their debut album would go platinum in February 2004. Their third single "The Chariot" would also debut in the ARIA top 40 in May 2004. "Hello" would finish at number 6 on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2003, with album track "Days Like These" at number 37 and "The Chariot" at number 100. Ozomatli is a multiethnic nine piece band, playing primarily Latin, hip hop, and rock, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles. ...
The East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival is an annual music festival held for five days over the Easter long weekend at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. ...
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The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music poll, based on the votes of Australian youth radio station Triple J listeners, in order to determine their favourite song of the year. ...
In September, the band released a DVD entitled On the Attack.
2005 The Cat Empire released their second album, Two Shoes on 19 April 2005. The album, recorded in Havana, Cuba, contains many old favourites for those who followed the Cat Empire from the beginning, as well as some new tunes (the first single, "Sly", being released on 28 March 2005). The song was written by Riebl after he saw a girl, Louisa Mignone, dancing in the crowd. She would later become his girlfriend and feature in the videoclip for "Sly". Notably, the album debuted at number #1. The new songs are all much more Latin in flavour, and there is a higher proportion of songs written by Harry than on the first album. Two Shoes also contains a "hidden" track, not announced on the back of the CD case, called "1001". This was coupled with the song "The Night That Never End". Two Shoes is the second studio album by Australian band The Cat Empire, the follow-up to the wildly successful self-titled first album, The Cat Empire. ...
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Sly was the first single taken from The Cat Empires hit 2005 album, Two Shoes. ...
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In July 2005, the band played two sets at the Cambridge Folk Festival (Cambridge, UK). Also in July 2005 they played a set on Sunday evening of Sheep Music World Music Festival. The Cambridge folk festival is renowned for its eclectic mix of music and a wide definition of what might be considered folk. ...
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In October, Two Shoes Deluxe Edition DVD was released.
The band also featured on a Triple J CD entitled Like a Version, featuring cover versions of songs performed by artists on Mel Bampton's show, Mel In The Morning. The track was a version of Hotel California (by the Eagles), sung in French by Harry. For other uses, see JJJ. Triple J is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ...
Like A Version is a segment on the radio station Triple Js program Mel in the Morning, hosted by Mel Bampton. ...
Melissa Mel Bampton is an Australian radio announcer, best known for her work on the Triple J network. ...
Hotel California is the title song from the Eagles album of the same name, and was released as a single in early 1977. ...
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In December 2004, they once again played at the Woodford folk festival.
2006 2006 was a busy year for the band, in March they participated in the opening of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, playing their own compositions for approximately one hour as the Games athletes entered the stadium, introducing the band to a worldwide audience of around one billion. The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Australia between March 15 and March 26, 2006. ...
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An American record deal was soon announced with Velour Recordings and on April 1, the band released a new album, Cities. It is described as "A tribute to our own city (Melbourne) and an experiment in sounds we've found abroad". A limited edition of 10,000 individually-numbered copies were made available. On October 29,the album was awarded an ARIA Music Award under the category: Awards for Fine Arts, Best World Music Album. Velour Recordings is an American record label founded in 1999 in New York. ...
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The band toured extensively over the year visiting Asia, America and Europe playing over 45 gigs in 12 countries.[2]
2007 The band started the year with a busy touring schedule and on 13 February they appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman across the US. They also appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on 1 March, and Jackson Jackson, Harry Angus' side project, released their first album, The Fire is on the Bird on 24 March. On 08 May the band performed on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. A major feature of the band's European tour was their appearance on the Avalon Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2007, where the mud was so bad that Felix Riebl and Jamshid Khadiwhala performed the "gumboot shuffle". Ŝ “Late Show†redirects here. ...
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The Fire is on the Bird is the debut album of Melbourne band Jackson Jackson, released in March 2007 in Australia. ...
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The Cat Empire released their fourth album, So Many Nights in Australia on 22 September and the first single, No Longer There, was released on 8 September. So Many Nights will be The Cat Empires fourth studio album. ...
Band members As of 2007, The Cat Empire consists of:
Core members - Felix Riebl (lead vocals, percussion, chariotti)
- Harry James Angus (trumpet and lead vocals; recorder and resonator)
- Ollie McGill (piano, keyboard, recorder, tubular bells, backing vocals, Melodica)
- Ryan Monro (double bass, bass guitar, backing vocals)
- Will Hull Brown (drums)
- Jamshid "Jumps" Khadiwhala (turntables, tambourine, clave, also dances)
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Oliver Ollie McGill (born 2 November, 1982) is an Australian fusion musician best known for his role as the keyboard player and backing vocalist for The Cat Empire. ...
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Ryan Monro, born in 1981 in Australia is a band member in The Cat Empire. ...
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The Cat Empire is a six-piece band, based in Melbourne, Australia. ...
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The Empire Horns A small group of musicians who play with the band and are basically full time members. - Kieran Conrau (trombone, trumpet, tuba, backing vocals)
- Ross Irwin (trumpet, backing vocals)
- Carlo Barbaro (Saxophone) [no longer part of the empire horns]
Guest musicians Other musicians featured on various tracks: - Jesus "Aguaje" Ramos (trombone)
- Yauren Muniz (trumpet)
- Javier R Zalba Suarez (baritone saxophone)
- Idania Valdes (backing vocals)
- Maritza Montero (backing vocals)
- Virgillio Valdes (backing vocals)
- Alyssa Conrau (violin)
- Georgina Cameron (violin)
- Kristy Conrau (cello)
- Max Riebl (trumpet, soprano voice)
- Jorge Yoandi Moline (congas)
- Arnado Valdes Perez (timbales)
- Greg Sheehan (percussion)
- Richard Tedesco (guitar)
- Kumar Shome (Sitar)
- Novak Conrad (guitar)
- Jan Skubiszewski (guitar)
- Cesari Skubiszewski (vocals)
- James Wike (guitar)
- Clarence DaFunk (guitar)
- Sergio Ercole (guitar)
- Julie O'Hara (vocals)
- Nina Ferro (vocals)
- Karishma Sadhai (vocals)
- Greg Sheehan (talking tamb)
- Alec Evans (guitar)
- Bobby Singh (tablas)
- Nasrine Rahmani (percussion)
- Elana Stone (vocals - live only)
- Luke Farrugia (tuba)
- Andy Baldwin (violin)
- Carlo Barbaro (saxophones, flute, clarinet)
- Michael Ingle (trombone - live only)
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The Empire Dancers - Fay Khadiwhala
- Anthony (Bboy Lamaroc)
- Carlos (Bboy Pepito)
Discography
Albums Image File history File links Twoshoes. ...
Image File history File links Twoshoes. ...
The Cat Empire is the self-titled studio debut album of Melbourne band The Cat Empire. ...
Two Shoes is the second studio album by Australian band The Cat Empire, the follow-up to the wildly successful self-titled first album, The Cat Empire. ...
Cities is an album by The Cat Empire released on the 1 April 2006. ...
So Many Nights will be The Cat Empires fourth studio album. ...
Compilations and independent releases The Cat Empire is a six-piece band, based in Melbourne, Australia. ...
The Sun is an album by The Cat Empire recorded in June 2002, and is a follow-up to their album Live @ Adelphia. The album was never released for retail sale but was sold at performances during their American tour and, as such, there are very few authentic copies of...
From The Cat Empire website: As the title of this album suggests, this musical package contains old tapes, funky breaks and some out-takes that didnt make our album. ...
From The Cat Empire website: On The Attack offers an insight into life on the road with The Cat Empire. ...
Touring Europe and the UK, 2004 is a promotional CD sold by The Cat Empire on their 2004 tour around Europe. ...
Singles From The Cat Empire From Two Shoes Hello was the first single taken from The Cat Empires 2003 debut album. ...
Days Like These was the second single taken from The Cat Empires 2003 debut album. ...
The Chariot was the third single taken from The Cat Empires 2003 debut album. ...
One Four Five was the fourth and final single taken from The Cat Empires hit 2003 eponymous debut album. ...
From So Many Nights Sly was the first single taken from The Cat Empires hit 2005 album, Two Shoes. ...
The Car Song is the fourth track and second single off Two Shoes, the second album from the Australian band The Cat Empire. ...
Two Shoes was the third and final single taken from The Cat Empires hit 2005 album of the same name, Two Shoes. ...
No Longer There is the first single to be taken from The Cat Empires fourth album, So Many Nights. ...
References - ^ http://www.musichead.com.au/site/artist.asp?actID=143602&news=1
- ^ http://www.musichead.com.au/site/tours.asp?actID=143602&tourID=318
External links - Official website
- Official myspace
- The Cat Empire at MusicBrainz
- The Cat Empire unofficial fansite
- The Cat Empire fanlisting
- Harry J. Angus and Felix Riebl of Cat Empire on stage at 13th Annual Meredith Music Festival / Dave Tacon (2003)
- The Cat Empire at The Dwarf
- At Shepherd's Bush, London, 3rd August 2006 - video and downloads
- The Cat Empire unofficial fansite (pout les francophones)
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