Kittie
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Kittie is a Canadian heavy metal all-women band from London, Ontario. The band rose to success in 1999 when the track "Brackish" from their debut album Spit became a hit single.
Kittie was formed in the year of 1996, when Mercedes Lander and Fallon Bowman met in a high school gymnastics class. The lead singer, Morgan Lander, is sister to Mercedes. Their original bassist was Tanya Candler, who was forced to leave the band in the winter of 1999 due to health problems. She was replaced with Talena Atfield. In 2001, Fallon Bowman left Kittie without citing any official reasons and eventually started a new project called Amphibious Assault. No replacement for Fallon was made at this time. The band's guitar technician, Jeff Phillips, filled the spots during tours, but was never officially made a member.
Talena Atfield left in 2002, also without citing any official reasons. She was replaced by Jennifer Arroyo on vocals and bass guitar.
In 2004 they added a fourth member, the second guitarist Lisa Marx, and Jeff Phillips went full time to his side project Thine Eyes Bleed.
Until March 2005 they were signed to Artemis Records but parted ways due to "a proposed amendment to the recording budget for the pending 4th Kittie album". Problems between the group and record label had been rumored for a long time. The only official sign of these problems were a out of court settlement over unpaid royalties in March 2004.
Around this time there is much speculation and rumors involving the band. Their official homepage is not often updated. A post made in the forum on their offical webpage ( Kittie offical webpage forum post (http://forums.kittierocks.com/index.php?showtopic=11139) ) indicates that the current lineup is now only Morgan and Mercedes Lander, and that both Lisa Marx and Jennifer Arroyo have left the group due to the poor support that came from Artemis Records, as well as financial difficulties keeping them as members in the group.
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Discography
- Spit (1999)
- Paper Doll EP (2000)
- Oracle (2001)
- Safe EP (2002)
- Until the End (2004)
Members
- Morgan Lander - Guitar and vocals
- Mercedes Lander - Drums
Former Members
- Tanya Candler - Bass
- Fallon Bowman - Guitar
- Talena Atfield - Bass
- Jeff Phillips - Touring Guitar (Now plays with "Thine Eyes Bleed")
- Lisa Marx - Guitar
- Jennifer Arroyo - Bass/backing vocals
External links
- Official Kittie Website (http://www.kittierocks.com)
- Mercedes Lander Official site (http://www.mercedeslander.com)
- Jennifer Arroyo's Official site (http://www.jenniferarroyo.com)
- Artemis Records (http://www.artemisrecords.com/kittie_bio.aspx)Template:Band-stub