By Kate Torgovnick
Ben Folds Five is close to releasing their first album in more than a decade. And band leader Ben Folds assures Rolling Stone that it is a “really good record.”
“We have something that you couldn’t imitate or repeat,” said Folds when asked about the impetus to reunite. “That’s what a great jazz band or an old-school rock band is all about – the sound being just in the chemistry and in your hands. It’s not about anything else, really. It’s just what happens. If we all played together on pots and pans on the floor it would have that same affect.”
The band is currently on tour with Kate Miller-Heidke, the Australian singer-songwriter in the awesome video above. And this has me wondering: could this be the Kate that Ben Folds sang about in the classic song “Kate.” Sample lyric: “And you can see the daisies in her footsteps / Dandelions, butterflies / I wanna be Kate.”
While it could be, it’s probably not. But hey, it’s great opportunity for a duet in my opinion.
Got a Kate-
I LOVE that Ben Folds Five song! My husband made me a CD when we first started dating (the “pre-itunes-playlist” version of the mix tape) and “Kate” was on it. I had never heard it before then and it made me laugh out loud. Such a fun song…and so great to sing at the top of your lungs when you’re driving by yourself!
Too funny. Sounds like you married a good one!
I definitely miss that span of two years in high school when every mix tape anyone gave me contained this song.
How is that I totally missed this Music Break: http://kate-book.com/kate-music-break-ben-folds-five/ ?? Seriously crazy. I’ve been thinking about writing about this song for the Trivial column, but oh why when you can see the whole song live. But seriously, oh what a difference 15–omg, has it really been 15 years since 1993?–years makes. I don’t even recognize Ben Folds. (Side note: Where have those years gone? And why is that YouTube clip so clear?)