Katie is the Waterford based writer singer with the hugely acclaimed solo album 'Twelve'. Here she plays new tunes live with her full band and talks to Dan. Katie Sullivan first start playing music as a teenager.
"I picked up the guitar when I was 14, started to write songs and, a year later, started playing small gigs and supports at home in Waterford," she says. "Then it was years of locking myself away with my computer and recording all day between jobs. I met Terry Cullen [from Ten Speed Racer] at one of the bars I was working in and he asked me to sing with his new band."
That band was Dae Kim, an act who provided Sullivan with her apprenticeship in what being in a band was all about. An album was recorded and released ( Matador , 2005), which saw the band gather a gaggle of admirers.
After Dae Kim faded into the rear-view mirror, Sullivan turned her attention to her own songs. In between trying to help out new bands with John Haggis, the Waterford-based human dynamo behind the Granny It's OK label, Sullivan kept writing song after song until she had about 50 recorded on her home computer.
Disaster struck in the form of a dastardly computer virus. Those songs and scraps vanished from her hard disc and there was no way to bring them back.