Kate has covered cutting-edge music and club culture ever since joining Time Out’s Nightlife team at the age of 19, and is behind the well-loved audio series The Last Bohemians, which has been featured in The New Yorker and won silver at the 2020 British Podcast Awards. She is a regular critic on BBC Radio 6Music’s Roundtable, Monocle on Culture and BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, and is happiest hosting talks and discussions at all your favourite festivals. 

Her passion for global music scenes has taken her to Ecuador, Uganda, Morocco, Colombia, Pakistan and beyond. Her stories on emerging sounds and artists have made several front pages of The New York Times, as well as appeared in The Sunday Times, The Wire, i-D, Vice and Mixmag. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian – where she was the Deputy Editor of the hugely influential entertainment magazine Guardian Guide from 2013-2017 – and Observer New Review, where she wrote the 2018 cover story on the stars of UK jazz, one of many pieces she has written on the scene.

Much of Kate’s approach to curation and storytelling owes to her interest in maverick women in the arts. In 2019, she launched the award-winning, proudly independent audio series The Last Bohemians, which was described by American music critic Jessica Hopper as “a singular feminist work of our time”. Now in its fifth series, the podcast profiles artists like Marina Abramovic, Maggi Hambling, Betye Saar, Pauline Black and Cosey Fanni Tutti. The Last Bohemians was also a finalist at the Audio Production Awards 2021, with the critic Miranda Sawyer writing: “run to this podcast right now”.

As a broadcaster, Kate has hosted regular shows on Worldwide FM, NTS, Beats 1, Boiler Room, Resonance and Soho Radio, also starring Neneh Cherry, Stewart Lee, Rahim Redcar (fka Christine and the Queens) and the late Andrew Weatherall. She brought in-depth musical knowledge and conversation with varied guests to her monthly Worldwide FM show, including Floating Points, Anoushka Shankar, Arooj Aftab, Yaeji and more. Her favourite broadcast is with the female pioneers of pirate radio for International Women’s Day.

Off the airwaves and in the clubs, Kate has spun at festivals from Glastonbury and We Out Here to Lake of Stars in Malawi. In 2020, she added her living room to that list by hosting and DJing a lockdown Boiler Room. She is a regular DJ at London audiophile bar Spiritland and played their Lisbon launch party alongside Bill Brewster.

Kate speaks regularly at festivals and events and has hosted talks over the years with musicians including Annie Lennox, Haim, Honey Dijon and Kelis, as well as the 2022 Dice Live Award (winner: Self Esteem) and the Oram Awards, honouring women and non-binary composers. She has led Q&As at internationally renowned events such as GQ Heroes, South By SouthWest, Sonar, IMS and Lost Village, for which she has also curated the talks tent several years in a row, bringing aboard guest speakers including The Blessed Madonna, Nihal Arthanayake, Jordan Stephens and Coco Khan.

In 2023, Kate created, wrote and produced the BBC audio series Where It’s At: A Short History of Girlbands. A forward-thinking curator, in 2024 she programmed talks at Soho House and music at Tate – for a late-night Tate Modern event featuring artist-activists Guerilla Girls and Pussy Riot. She also presented the inaugural ‘Club Ono’ at Tate to celebrate the gallery’s Yoko Ono retrospective, which she took to Glastonbury’s Park Stage with BISHI and Stonebridge Bar, introduced to the stage by Jarvis Cocker.

She has written pieces for books about Daft Punk and Aphex Twin, is featured in the 2024 Faber book Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of UK Jazz, and had the honour of being interviewed on the DJ History podcast. Kate is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of writers and artists: she has guest lectured at numerous universities and, during the pandemic, produced a series of free music industry workshops for jazz educators Tomorrow’s Warriors.