Stamped with an individuality and high style of her own, Chubby Cat has just been named at one of the Hot For 2023 Irish Acts by Hot Press.
She’s already been making waves in Ireland with her earlier singles, Not a Vibe, Big Dog Barking, 21st Century Panic Attack, Baby Blue & Ache picking up support at Irish Radio, blogs and assorted DSP’s including Spotify’s New Music Friday, Fresh Finds, GLOW, UK & IE: Fresh Finds & New Pop UK
Several of Chubby Cats previous releases have been made ‘Track of the Week’ on Spin South West, 2FM, and received significant play on 2FM, Today FM and a host of other regional stations.
Previous support includes Nialler9, Golden Plec, Atwood, Lock Magazine and she was included in the Influential ‘Now Hear This’ playlist on the Independent UK (one of the UK’s biggest daily newspapers).
Chubby Cat is building a significant live audience having recently supported hot UK act Crawlers and Tourist for their sold out shows in Dublin while she also recently performed at the prestigious Output Festival in Belfast, We’ve Only Just Begun Festival in Whelan’s, The Mother Summer Block Party in Dublin, Sofar Sounds Belfast and Indiependance Festival in Cork.
Chubby Cat plays Ireland Music Week this October on Thursday 5th in Workmans Cellar at 9:50pm
On ‘Kissin’ In The Valley-O’:
“I wanted to create a song that was relevant to me and the people around me in terms of growing up in our 20’s and 30’s. KITVO talks about the housing crisis and the struggles people face when trying to rent somewhere to live that’s not too expensive, too damp or unsafe, worrying about having money for food or money for electricity, breathing in all kinds of mould and getting sick as a result, trying to keep relationships going when you live with housemates who you don’t get along with etc.
Using a modest home studio, sampling things like pencils tapping on the table top and scraping blue tac wrappers up and down, myself and Kris wanted to capture a new energy in this song.
It makes me very happy that I’m able to release a song that was made with one of my closest friends in his home with nothing fancy, just real conversations and genuine feelings and emotions. Creating songs that are relatable for myself, other indie Artists and other people in general is really important to me and I like to think we’ve done that with this new track.”
Listen to it below:
