My Cat Drinks Tap Water

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My Cat Drinks Tap Water (MCDTW or My Cat) was a group from Townsville, QLD, notable for their noisy dance hardcore sound, often described as "Foals on steroids". The band was started in very late 2007 by founders and childhood friends, Jake McPherson and Kyle Setch. McPherson and Setch would spend their weekends jamming together in Setch's basement and making it very clear to each other it was just jamming and they weren't actually a band. For the best part of 2008 the lineup in MCDTW was very loose, with several different combinations of members, the only concrete members being McPherson and Setch. In early 2008 My Cat self released a home recorded effort entitled the 'My Cat-Demo'. This featured the band's earlier indecisiveness towards a genre. Jake's brother, Daniel, soon began learning bass and was immediately added to the fold, aswell as his school-friend, Joshua Oxley, on keys. This line-up was again shortlived, lasting only their first real gig before Josh left the band to move to Brisbane. Daniel remained in the band and they continued playing gigs as a 3-piece with Jake taking over keyboard duties. One night while practicing for a gig, band friend, Tom Douglas, brought some snacks for the band and was invited to scream for their rehersal. This lead him to quickly become the new member of MCDTW, being a fulltime screamer and partial percussionist, utilising cake-tins, shakers, ironing boards, glocks, anything the band could find to hit. With their most cohesive

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