That made me really want to come back and do my own thing.” Alan McGee has said of you: “In a different time, be a punk hero”. I wrote four of their singles and it was a 4x platinum album.
They’re like a rock band but they sing in English so they needed somebody to write their lyrics for them. There was this band called The Kolors who won one of the biggest talent shows. I met an A&R from Sony ATV and I started writing lyrics. I went to live in Italy and I started hanging out in the music scene there. “I had people say to me, ‘Why did you do that?’, but I was saving myself. We had massive interest from all the labels, but I knew if I signed a deal that would be it and I’d spend all the money on drugs.” What happened after the band split? But then I started getting into the scene a little too much and taking things that I shouldn’t. It was a good band: very punk and unpolished and maybe we weren’t the best musicians, but we did quite well. One of them was David, my guitarist in The Vincent Fiasco. I went to live in this squat in Camden and I met lots of musicians through that. It was just horrible, so she chucked me out. “ got quite a history of depression and substance – my dad was an alcoholic and my mam remarried when I was about 10. Hi Cat! So we last saw you when you were in the band, The Vincent Fiasco… 13 years on, and with an album in the works and slated for release next year, we caught up with her from her kitchen over Zoom, to talk turning her back on indie stardom, mental health and why Cat SFX are the punk heroes we need in 2020. We first met Cat during the late-’00s indie boom, when she was fronting promising provocateurs, The Vincent Fiasco, aged just 16. Think X-Ray Spex, Siouxsie and the Banshees and early Garbage frantically descending on Downing Street with clenched teeth and raised fists. Following on from their single, ‘Doom Generation’, which was released earlier this year as part of a flurry of 7” singles by the label, today they officially release new single ‘Reunite’, a punk protest that sums up modern Britain and the hellfire of 2020 in one vitriolic punk squall. Her band are the latest signing to Creation23, the new label run by legend Alan McGee, who launched the careers of Oasis, My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream.
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