spotlight
Rage: No, it’s very deserving. It’s quite a breath of fresh air musically and we need that nowadays. Your song
“Traffic Light” is my favorite lately. Its very 1970s Olivia Newton-John like in your vocals and very cool lyrically…
yet so sunshiny in the feeling. That song really shows your voice off.
KW: Yeah, I can sing but I just like shoutin’ (laughter). I just like getting up a good shout, you know?
“Traffic Light” was a song that we wrote and we were like “let’s just sing.” We can sing but I don’t
know… it’s just there are so many girls with half-decent voices who just sing natural folk songs. I
just found it empowering screaming.
Rage: You are going to be headlining with P!nk. When does that start?
KW: We start in September. Right now, we are doing a radio tour in the states. We just arrived in
Buffalo and we don’t know where we’re going next but it should be a bit of fun.
A Few Ting Ting Things
Rage: Why did you title the CD, We Started Nothing?
AbouT KaTie WhiTe KW: Ummm, when we first wrote these songs and the ideas and creativity, we really was so
carefree and felt that we had nothing to lose. We didn’t have anything. That was the mentality we
Are you reading any books right now? had, especially when all the press stuff hit that it was kind of mind-blowing. We weren’t aiming for
KW: I’m about halfway through Dreams from My the skies. We were just writing songs that we love and that our friends dance to. I think when you are
Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack creating, it’s fantastic if you feel that you have nothing to lose. You write better songs.
Obama.
Rage: “Fruit Machine” has a really cool 1960s beat to it. It reminded me of something Nancy Sinatra would do,
What are a couple of your favorite movies? like “These Boots Are Made for Walking.”
KW: Cinema Paradiso and Girl On a Bridge, just kind KW: Ahhh. The fun to that is that you are saying all the stuff that we love!
of romantic French ones. Old school… they take
forever to get going and make you cry at the end. Rage: How would you describe the chemistry that you have in writing songs with Jules?
KW: I love writing with Jules. He’s a brilliant writer. He’s been writing for many years and he really
Guilty pleasure food that is a favorite? understands songwriting. Each song is different in that Jules is on the piano and me on the guitar
KW: I kind of like McDonald’s fish sandwiches. In or Jules is on guitar and I’m on drums. We really work well together. It’s weird. We both came from
the states you can get double ones, in England, you completely different musical backgrounds. I grew up listening to The Spice Girls because that’s
could never get that… people would think that what was played on the radio when I was younger. Jules grew up listening to people like Jeff Buck-
you’re greedy. In America, you can gorge yourself. ley… really kind of deep musicians. We both influence each other. Now… Jules loves Britney and
I love Talking Heads, Tom-Tom Club and The Smiths. So, we’ve really influenced each other in that
What kind of beer do you drink? way.
KW: I don’t like beer. My uncle has B.O. and beer re-
minds me of him. Beer smells like human body odor! Rage: It’s been just a little more than a year since your debut. What has the experience been like touring and
being on the road?
One of your favorite old Hollywood stars? KW: It’s insane. We’ve been around the world already five times this year. We’ve seen all these
KW: Grace Kelly. I’ve been reading a bit about her places that we never dreamt we’d see. In a way, it’s just put our faith back in music. When our last
recently. I’m kind of getting into her. Probably the band failed, we kind of thought music was shit at the moment. That everything was depressing
next book I’m going to read is a Grace Kelly biogra- about music. When we caught these songs on MySpace, when we first started, there were DJs just
phy. I never really noticed her before but recently writing to us from all around the world. We didn’t have a manager or anything and they were just
I’ve become obsessed with her. So, I want to find out saying, “We need this record. We want to play it!” from Brazil to Japan. It’s just amazing that songs
everything about her. can literally travel on their own so far.
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