Fanbolt.com interview with Kate Voegele

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Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2008-06-16

We had the honor of recently interviewing Kate Voegele on the Verizon VIP Tour. We joined her tour bus to ask a few questions about her singing career, her fashion tastes, and of course her role on One Tree Hill. Here’s what she had to say:

Do you have any plans yet for your next single? And do you know if there will be a video for it?

I’m sure we’ll end up releasing another single and doing another video. At this point, I’m not really sure. The video for “Only Fooling Myself” just came out a couple weeks ago, the song definitely still has legs, and we’re trying to make it our song of the summer. But I’m sure soon enough we’ll all sit down and talk about what makes sense as the next single. That’s what is fun about it, you never have everything mapped out, what opportunities are going to come, or what song you’re going to write. So I’m looking forward to figuring it out, but it’s kind of a day at a time thing.

What is the craziest fan experience that you’ve had?

People are so awesome! It’s the coolest thing in the world for someone to be like, “I made you this!” People get so creative, and I get so many colorful, decorative letters and cool stuff. It’s awesome to know that people care, and that they’re inspired by your music enough to do that.

Crazy fan stuff though… I mean my fans are awesome, but my little sister did say she saw a fan lick the bus. Which that was… I mean I got to say, the outside of the bus, like any car or moving vehicle, you don’t want to lick it. It’s just not something you want to put your mouth on.

How has touring with Natasha Bedingfield been different than touring with Hanson?

They’ve both been such amazing experiences. It’s just great being on the road with people who are genuine, and Hanson… those guys are just some of the most real, cool guys you’ll ever meet. Natasha and The Veronicas are the same way… super down to earth and just so much fun.

It’s cool though because this tour has been like totally girl power with 3 female acts. Even though they’re are both girls and guys in the crowd, I think it’s cool for the girls to see young women pursuing their dreams and making it happen. It’s cool to have a tour with 3 strong female acts rocking it every night. Everyone is different enough musically, but it still works well together. It all flows well.

Definitely! Do you have any plans for any of your old EP’s to be available on iTunes?

You know, what’s funny about the old EP’s is I made them for the main purpose of showcasing for record labels in high school. I just wanted to get the right record deal and make a record that would be nationally released and distributed. I kind of cut my teeth in the spotlight in a lot of ways. I learned how to open up for a major act, by opening up for a major act. I didn’t practice very much playing coffee houses. I fell into all of this very early, and I gave my demos to everyone around Cleveland. My dad helped me put them together, and they just fell into the right hands. And then I was getting side-stage gigs with Counting Crows. But I’d never really played live before, so it freaked me out.

So yeah, I had all of these EP’s that got a lot of national attention, but they weren’t really intended to be released nationally. A lot of them are the same songs that are on my record, but it’s kind of a fun thing for those that were there from the beginning. I did sell them at my first shows. It’s cool for those fans to be like, “Hey I got the first version of Kate’s single!” And it’s really cool when fans come to the show, and they bring that EP. I’m like, “WHOA, you’ve been around forever!” Either that or they went on eBay [laughs].

I’m sure I’ll end up releasing a lot more music in my life, some old EP’s that weren’t on this album, maybe I’ll redo them and release them with the next album. I don’t know, but not the existing songs probably.

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