Kath Harding / Promoter & Resident DJ
     
Kath is one the countless South Africans that were born in
South Africa. And it was in South Africa that she first decided to be a DJ rather than an astronaut. She started out listening to Carl Cox, Sasha & Digweed and Tony de Vit, but like The Byrds
in 'Easy Rider', she wasn't born to follow and she rejected
hard-house and trance, opting instead for the techy side
of electronic dance.
In 1997 she was brought to England by Queen Elizabeth II because British people had no taste and a militant dance dictator like Kath was needed to lead them to the higher ground.
Much like Freddie Mercury, Kath has served her sentence
but committed no crime. She has worked her way from the
pubs of West London, via engagements at Lounge, Soundshaft and Essence, to the giddy heights of Smack, The Dirty Red Ball and WiSH.
WiSH is very much Kath’s baby and if you touch it she will destroy you. Kath has a work ethic that would shame the god described in the Book of Genesis and she is the person to be congratulated for WiSH's visual presentation, it's music policy, and its very existance.
Kath’s music philosophy currently resides within the minimal, tech, and techno genres. With influences from Gabriel Ananda, Luciano, Bookashade, Luca Bachetti, Oxia, Format B, Paul Ritch, John Dahlback, Alex Kenji, Hernan Grau, Eelke Kleijn, Luetzenkirchen, Martin Buttrich, Trentemoller and heaps
heaps more.
Away from the decks Kath believes that long life comes from the replacement of food with cigarettes and water with wine. She is the kind of driven maniac that Kerouac used to write about and, to paraphrase Nick Cave, we are all microscopic cogs in her catastrophic plan.
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