BN1 CHATS WITH KAT PENKIN

We caught up with Kat Penkin just before the release of her second EP Checkmate. Released on Feb 11, Checkmate includes singles Love Sex Fame and A Better Time along with four new tracks. We discuss the inspiration behind Love Sex Fame, Kat’s signing to a label last year, the difference between the Australian and UK music scenes and more in this candid interview.

Charlie Tomlinson

You moved over from Australia in 2018. Were you writing and releasing music while living in Australia, too? I’ve been writing music since I was about 9 or 10, but my first release didn’t come until Feb 2020 after a couple years of finding my feet in Brighton and, without wanting to sound clichéd, finding my ‘sound’. I tried to collaborate with producers in Australia, but I had no idea what I wanted to say or sound like and was so insecure about my music, it never worked out. What inspired the move to the UK? And how did you find adapting to England and the UK music scene? I just needed to be so far out of my comfort zone that I would really push myself to make music…

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