Mike Kearney

Dave Wallace

Dougie Coulter

Davide Rinaldi

Charles Dearness

Konrad Wiszniewski

Patrick Darley

Vox, Keys, MD

Electric Guitar

Bass

Drums

Trumpet

Saxophones

Trombone

Relive the glory of the 90s with a jazzfunk twist at This Year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Katet presents
The Katet Vs. 1995

Debuting at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe is another ambitious show from master arranger, Mike Kearney and his 7-piece ‘funk colossus’ and Fringe stalwarts - The Katet.

Sing-along to world class arrangements of the top of the pops, but reinvented for a modern audience with a jazz-funk twist, in a charismatic and high-octane performance by award-winning Edinburgh session musicians with over a decade of Fringe experience. Get transported back to the glory days of the 90s with non-stop mashups of Oasis, Blur, Radiohead, Take That, Seal, Scatman, Pulp, Sheryl Crow, Coolio, Green Day and many more.... What were you listening to in 1995?

The Katet relish a challenge, consistently pushing the boundaries of what they can pull off. Since 2013 they’ve been choosing exciting and diverse artists and concepts to build their Fringe shows around. Check out previous SELL-OUT Fringe shows, The Katet Vs. John Williams(here) and The Katet Vs. Stevie Wonder(here) . The Katet Vs. 1995 is the first of 3 shows in the band’s 90s Series scheduled for launch in consecutive years, all 30 years on…

Speaking of the creation of the show, bandleader/arranger Mike Kearney says, ‘This is the music I grew up with and each show is, first and foremost, an ambitious and personal exploration of who I am as an artist and an expression of where I am in my journey.’

To date, The Katet have released 4 albums of original music with 2 more in production and fast approaching is the 20 year anniversary of not only the band, but of The Jazz Bar, the venue of their birth and decade long residency(2005-2015) which was recently saved from oblivion by a community takeover and crowd funder. To celebrate the rebirth of this award-winning music venue, The Katet’s new series proudly delivers something very special indeed to celebrate the past, and the future, of the community that has supported them for so long.