Katherine Christie Evans, previously a bassist in Dream Nails, is pursuing her solo project under the name Velodrome by mixing a wide variety of genres. From funk to garage rock to psychedelia to classical roots from her training as a youth, her pursuit of a blurring of the lines between genres also extends to her medium as well; in the spirit of DIY that many others also work their art through, she’s putting her arts degree and experience in theater design to practice by incorporating theater into her live shows and videos, truly the definition of interdisciplinary. In May, Kate released her first of a series of singles: the flexible and dynamic Baroque-influence “His Physique.” Where the genres she incorporates into her songs transcend traditional boundaries, the topics on which she writes also cover a wide variety of experiences and disciplines. Mental health awareness, feminism, economic status, the impact of all of these on Kate’s art, are just a few of the topics she writes into her music. “It’s hard not to be intersectional, because you’re writing about all your perspectives,” she says. “There’s a lot going on in ‘His
Physique’, but it’s a whole bunch of issues colliding for me. It’s a bit of body dysmorphia, which is from my anorexia, and then there’s also the gender issues.” In the video she starred in and wrote herself, Kate dresses up as men from various paintings ranging from medieval to renaissance eras, as well as more modern icons, to play out her gender fantasies and explore the interplay between dysphoria and dysmorphia. “Anxiety, I feel it comes across in my music; it’s very complicated, layered music, which really is me.”
