About Kate
- Kate is a singer songwriter, performer and song historian.
- Through her passion and knowledge of old songs, she recently wrote and presented her own TV series on Talking Pictures called 'The Stories Behind The Songs'.
- Kate was invited by Jools Holland to guest on his Radio 3 show 'Earlier...'
- Kate is the daughter of Chas Hodges from Chas and Dave
- Born in Edmonton, all mothers and babies were evacuated after a cockroach infestation, so Kate went onto spend the first week of her life with Mum Joan in Gracie Fields’ ball room, a maternity home at the time.
- Kate has been writing songs since she was a child. Her songwriting style varies from a victorian parlour song to a top ten club chart hit.
- Kate’s work always involved a piano in some way. Playing around the pubs and clubs of London at night and a day job at Harrods selling pianos.
- Kate has performed aboard the HMS Victory, The London Palladium and The Royal Albert Hall. She has also perfromed live with the BBC Big Band & Concert Orchestra for D Day 80 at Portsmouth Guildhall and guested on Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’ for VE Day 80.
- Kate’s love of the 20s and 30s began when her dad bought her a wind up gramophone at a flea market.
- Kate received a letter from Queen Elizabeth after composing 'Platinum Queen'.
- Kate’s Nanna Daisy was a great piano player. Lional Bart would go and watch her play.
- Kate is married to the actor and comedy writer Paul Garner, a regular host of BBC Radio 4 Extra's The Comedy Club. They have a son called Harry.
- Kate has written a musical set in the 1930s based on the ‘Mapp and Lucia’ books by EF Benson.
- Kate enjoys baking, and shopping for vintage bargains at flea markets and charity shops
- Kate is a regular supporter for The Royal British Legion
- Kate's recommended societies are The Dickens Fellowship, The British Music Hall Society, EF Benson Society, Friends Of Tilling and The Art Deco Society UK, of which she is Ambassador of.
- Kate has set music to poems by William Morris and Charles Dickens.
