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KITTIE Featured On This Weekend's 'Rebel Access' TV

June 22, 2007

Canadian all-girl metal band KITTIE will be the featured band on this Sunday's (June 24) "Rebel Access" TV, which airs at 10:00 p.m. on Channel 19 all over the Chicagoland area. The program will include an exclusive interview with drummer Mercedes Lander and guitarist Tara McLeod, along with concert performance footage shot at the The Pearl Room in Mokena, Illinois.

In the interview, Mercedes goes into detail about how she began playing the piano at age 6 and continued for several years until she "noticed" Alex Van Halen. Having her older sister Morgan at 14 playing alongside on guitar motivated Mercedes to practice. "And it helped that we both sucked," she explains. "So what [if] I can't do this and you can't do that; let's keep trying anyways.

"We wanted to pick a name that was totally contradictory to the sound of the band, so KITTIE sounded like the perfect name when we were that age."

During the interview Mercedes describes growing up in front of an audience both musically and also as a woman. "We just grew up with our instruments and this album is the coming of that."

Mercedes' advice to the younger musicians just starting out is, "It helps to have a motivational partner, then find [other] people who are committed. There are a lot of fickle musicians out there. Then play, just play — doesn't matter where, when, who or how, just play cause practice makes perfect."

"Rebel Access" features a band one week and plays the hardest "in-your-face" music videos in Chicago the next week.

For more information, visit www.rebelaccess.com.

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