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Hailing from the idyllic mountain suburb of Kurrajong, Kate Gogarty was always surrounded by music. Kate started playing aged 14, when she used to play her own sets supporting her father, a musician himself. While she started out playing covers, she began writing her own songs at 16. The songs didn’t make it past the bedroom until 2009 when Thirsty Merc guitarist Sean Carey heard Gogarty’s songs and invited her to his studio. The result was the Blurry EP, with the songs reflecting the observations of a heartbroken teenager. The self-funded and self-released EP gained widespread airplay and saw Kate tour interstate for the first time. Blurry received a number of glowing reviews with Reverb magazine awarding it a score of 4.5 out of 5 and describing it as a “beautiful yet haunting work”, admiring Gogarty’s “deep poetic lyrics” and a “vocal range from bluesy and moody, right through to the soaring and beautiful” before surmising “Kate Gogarty is a rising star that anyone who hears her