Katrina Mitchell

Katrina Mitchell is a Scottish musician who joined The Pastels in 1989. In 2000, Mitchell set up the Domino Records imprint Geographic with The Pastels co-member Stephen McRobbie as well as Glasgow music institution, Monorail Music in 2002.

Biography Mitchell joined The Pastels in 1989 to become the drummer for the band's second line-up, alongside original member (and her partner) Stephen McRobbie and long-standing member Annabel 'Aggi' Wright.

The Glasgow Herald described Mitchell and McRobbie as the "unassuming pair eating soup in Glasgow's Mono cafe" and the 'nucleus' or 'core' of the group.

Monorail Music Mitchell also became involved in setting up Monorail Music, in Glasgow, in December 2002 as a cafe bar, vegetarian restaurant and gig venue with its attached record store which gives "their discerning customers kid-in-a-sweetshop type palpitations at the wonders on offer". which is home to Will Oldham, (Smog) and Royal Trux.

This Summer school was a week-long rock 'n' roll camp for girls aged between eight and sixteen years old and took place at Kinning Park.

Belle and Sebastian Belle and Sebastian's Stevie Jackson described Mitchell and composer/ pianist Bill Wells as two of his favourite musicians and booked time to work with them both in the studio on a new record in 2011. Though, admits to struggling to get them for more than one day.

Discography

The Pastels

Mobile Safari (1995) Illumination (1997) Yoga (EP) (2002) Slow Summits (2013)

Soundtracks Mitchell and the Pastels supplied the music for David McKenzie's 2002 film The Last Great Wilderness.

Legacy Writing of Mitchell's (and the Pastels) place in the music pantheon, The Scotsman states:"The Pastels were at the forefront of an independent music movement in Scotland, one which fused the DIY attitude of punk with the sumptuous sounds of late-1960s psychedelia. Of the band's contemporaries, the Jesus & Mary Chain had an explosive impact, the Soup Dragons made it on to Top of the Pops and Primal Scream enjoyed slow-release success and lasted the course. Later on, Teenage Fanclub and Belle & Sebastian emerged, embodying the same spirit, to inspire the next generation of melodic guitar-slingers to exercise the healthy degree of autonomy which still pervades the work of current local heroes such as the Delgados and Mogwai."