Today we’d like to introduce you to Tim Hildebrand.
Hi Tim, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
Catbite started in May 2018, shortly after I had departed from my previous band that I had played in for 9 years. I very quickly felt a void and had to fill it with a new band, specifically a ska band. Myself, our singer, Brit, and our original bass player started working on stuff and quickly got a lot of buzz after securing our friend Chris on drums and releasing some singles on Facebook. We very quickly signed to a friends new record label called Bad time records, and released our first full length record in early 2019. But it wasn’t until during the times of Covid that we started to get a lot more of a buzz through constant online videos/releases/collaborations. By the time shows were happening again, we had released our second record and began touring non-stop all across the world and have had opportunities to open for many bands that we grew up listening to. Now we are working on our third record with the release tbd.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I’d say that being in a touring band is 95% struggles, and 5% luxury! Most of the struggles is constantly having to adapt to the world online and in real life, and also figuring out how to run a business when all you really want to do is play shows with your friends.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
We are a group of 5 friends who make music. We fall in the Ska genre, but we have never limited ourselves to it. We write original songs and our goal is to make every song our favorite song in the world. We want them to be fun or relatable or danceable or easy to sing along to. Or all of the above.
How do you think about happiness?
Playing shows. I get to see the people who support my art and be face to face with them. I get to watch them sing the songs we wrote back to us, I get a front row view to how these songs affect them, and at the end of the night I get to have face to face conversations with them. There is no greater feeling.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Catbite.net
- Instagram: https://Www.instagram.com/catbiteband
- Facebook: https://Www.facebook.com/catbiteband
- Youtube: https://YouTube.com/catbiteband
