Kitty & the Rooster Oct 14

Kitty & The Rooster is a rock n’ roll duo from Vancouver. Their music is surfy & comedic and their shows are fun & sweaty spectacles. They wear cat & rooster masks in their promo photos and sometimes on stage too. They are a duo that sounds like a full band, featuring Jodie Ponto playing her signature stand-up cocktail drumkit and Noah Walker playing electric guitar & bass at the same time.

Kitty & The Rooster has toured all over Canada, played a cluck-ton of festivals including Vancouver Folk Fest, opened for Shannon & The Clams, and released an album called One Gig Hard Drive. New album Ain't Pussyfootin' Around coming in 2022.

“Take the name Kitty & The Rooster, and combine it with the fact guitarist Noah Walker and drummer Jodie Ponto wear chicken and cat masks in their promo shots, and one might expect a barnyard version of Slipknot. Wrong. Because those things can be sweaty under stage lights, the masks tend to come off quickly as the duo unleashes a retro-spectacular sound that slots in nicely with Southern Culture on the Skids, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, and the Reverend Horton Heat. Those who like a serving of politics with their country-fried goodness will want to muscle their way to the front of the stage for the ode to local real-estate idiocy that is “Paid a Million Dollars (To Live Like You’re Poor)”—a song that might as well be modern Vancouver’s municipal anthem”  — The Georgia Straight