Kate Robertson - backing vocals & percussion

• Instruments/Gear
  Vocals and lots of percussion
• Joined The Band
  Original member, joined in April 1997 (had a short maternity break).
• Formal Musical Education
  Grade 2 piano. Vocal training years on the road singing lead vocal.
• Influences Other Than Steely Dan
  Grew up with Jazz funk. Loved Weather Report. Also like Free and Cream. More currently, I like Amy Winehouse. Ella Fitzgerald and Eva Cassidy remain my all time favourite singers.
• Favourite Steely Dan Songs
  Peg, Time Out of Mind, Pretzel Logic and Dirty Work.
• Favourite or Interesting Nearly Dan Experience
  Performing at Glastonbury and The Echo Arena. Watching four of the male band memebers eating their pie and chips on top of a bin (used as a table) following a drunken pub crawl after a gig in Scotland!!!!!
• Essential Listening
  Amy Winehouse. Nearly Dan CD's (subtle plug!!)
• Comment
  Being in a band with 10 people is like a marriage, except there is no preferred side of the bed or conjugal rights!! You do, however, go through good times and bad and you have to get past the 7-year itch. Getting to 11years is good going. Lets hope we reach our Golden Anniversary!