Catch (band)

Catch
Catch in Bangkok, Thailand in 1997
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genres	indie pop, Britpop[1]
Years active	1997–1999
Labels	Virgin
Members	Toby Slater Wayne Murray Ben Etchells

Catch were an English

The band's debut album was rush released in Indonesia due to the band's sudden popularity there, and they visited Jakarta for a promotional tour and performed acoustically for fans.

The album was delayed in the UK due to Slater being unhappy with it at the time, however the band split up prior to it being released in any form in the UK. A working title was believed to have been Victim Support.

Post-split

Following the split of Catch, Slater moved to Los Angeles and began pursuing a solo career. Returning to London, he formed a group featuring former members of the UK band Salamanda, and began recording and gigging, under his own name. The Toby Slater Band released one single, "Consumption", and other songs that were made available online via Slater's own website and via the fledgling Napster file sharing service, on which Slater was a featured artist during August 2000.^[5]

Slater had written, recorded and released music with a band, initially under the name Kunta Kinte and subsequently as Tough Love. He was also involved in the White Mischief series of steampunk entertainment events based predominantly in London.^[6]

Wayne Murray is now a touring guitarist for the Manic Street Preachers and fronts a music project named Boy Cried Wolf.^[7] Ben Etchells is a sound engineer at Live Sound Training.

Toby Slater died on 13 December 2021 at the age of 42.^[8]

Discography

Albums

• Catch (Indonesian only release, 1997, now out of print)^{[when?][citation needed]}

Singles

• "Bingo" (September 1997) -
  UK
  #23
• "Dive In" (February 1998) - UK #44^[2]

List of Catch songs

• "Bingo"
• "Dive In"
• "Half the World Away"
• "A New Soul"
• "Don't Wait Up"
• "Pity the Man"
• "My Burst Balloon"
• "Expensive Kiss"
• "Goodbye"
• "Start of Something"
• "Over Again"
• "Maybe Tonight"

B-sides

• "Boys Will Be Boys"
• "Bitten by You"
• "The Better Me"
• "Simon Says"
• "Pullover Boy"
• "No-One Knows"
• "The Possibilities"
• "Morning Sun"

Known demos

• "Blue Room"
• "Under the Bed"
• "Victorian Names"
• "Paper Aeroplanes"
• "The Worst Years"
• "My Bright Child"
• "Second to None"

See also

• Toby Slater

References

https://www.riotactpodcast.com/70-the-anal-timekeeper/

External links

• Catch discography at Discogs
• Catch at
  IMDb