About kate

Kate Goodacre is a freelance writer, copyeditor and photographer. She founded The Fugitive Motel in late 2006, and her taste in music has been broadened greatly by her co-contributors over the years that the site and the Motel collective has been in business. Kate likes pink lady apples, sunflowers, mixtapes, recycling, open-wheeled motorsport, the smell of a well-kept park, the Today Programme and that strangely invigorating stillness you get in a city early on any weekend morning.
Website: http://www.thefugitivemotel.org.uk
kate has written 332 articles so far, you can find them below.

The Fugitive Motel’s 5 years at Bestival: Photo gallery

Filed under Bestival, Festival Coverage by Kate Goodacre on September 22, 2011 at 4:18 pm {no comments}

Kate and Andy F look back at five years of photographing Bestival...

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I’ve Never Felt This Way Before

Filed under Music: Reviews, Single Reviews by Kate Goodacre on September 6, 2011 at 6:14 pm {no comments}

Patrick Wolf - 'Time of My Life' (Universal/Mercury Records) [re-release]
September 12, 2011
5.7/6.0

The first time you hear Wolf sing that euphoric refrain of "# Hold on/ It won't be long 'til I go through this struggle #", your serotonin levels will skyrocket.

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A Festival Mixtape: Bestival 2011 (Side B)

Filed under Bestival, Featured Articles, Festival Coverage by Kate Goodacre on August 26, 2011 at 11:59 pm {no comments}

Side B of Kate's Bestival preview mixtape, featuring Bjork, The Cure, Patrick Wolf and more...

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A Festival Mixtape: Bestival 2011 (Side A)

Filed under Bestival, Featured Articles, Festival Coverage by Kate Goodacre on August 24, 2011 at 3:21 pm {no comments}

Kate is back on Bestival preview duty, and it feels so good! Side A of our special mixtape features Robyn, Yuck, Los Campesinos and more...

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A Festival Mixtape: Beacons 2011

Filed under Festival Coverage by Kate Goodacre on August 10, 2011 at 6:28 pm {one comment}

Beacons Festival may have sadly been cancelled due to flooding, but check out our mixtape highlighting the best of the weekend...

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A Festival Mini-Mixtape: Camp Bestival 2011

Filed under Bestival, Festival Coverage by Kate Goodacre on July 28, 2011 at 1:46 pm {no comments}

The Motel's festival mixtape will make all your Camp Bestival planning easy - or allow you to party with the best of them if you can't make it this time around...

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Amy Winehouse: Her musical legacy

Filed under Music: Features by Kate Goodacre on July 24, 2011 at 3:02 pm {no comments}

Kate takes a look back at Amy Winehouse's musical legacy following her premature and untimely death with six great live performances.

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A Festival Mixtape: Somerset House Summer Series 2011

Filed under Festival Coverage, Somerset House Summer Series by Kate Goodacre on June 29, 2011 at 5:31 pm {no comments}

It feels like yesterday that we were previewing last year's Somerset House Summer Series, but still, time to find out what's on offer at London's most beautiful building from next week...

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YouTube Disco: Laura Marling is back!

Filed under Music: Features, YouTube Disco by Kate Goodacre on June 21, 2011 at 3:54 pm {no comments}

Waiting three months for Laura Marling's new record is going to be agony if this teaser video is an indication of what we can expect...

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Tripping the L.I.F.E Fantastic

Filed under Live Reviews, Music: Reviews by Kate Goodacre on June 7, 2011 at 10:08 am {no comments}

Noah and the Whale
Stanley Theatre, Liverpool
Monday May 9, 2011

If the London-based outfit weren't so damn charming, it would be easy to become jealous of their live prowess. They have cut themselves adrift from the mildly twee acoustic sounds of their debut and taken a more populist approach [but demonstrate] that whatever musical treatment those tracks are given, they have a timeless appeal.

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