About
Cath Coombs

Cath has worked as a professional musician since the 1990s when, with her first band, Whiskey Before Breakfast, later Thought Gang, collaborating with Martin Green of Lau, she toured the UK, and Europe, playing such festivals as Glastonbury, The Edinburgh Fringe, Sidmouth and Cambridge, where Cath had the privilege of being joined on stage by Joan Baez. Their two albums "Mary's Teapot" and "Monsters from the Id" were well received. 

She went on to tour Canada with Horace X on their "Strategy" album tour of 2005. She has featured on several albums and fronted a number of other bands including The Cath Coombs Jazz Quintet and her 8 piece soul band Cath Coombs and the Awesome Soul Collective. She has extensive experience as a jobbing session musician and performer. In her current band, Downpipe, featuring  bass saxohone, Cath sings and plays blues violin.  Her other instruments include cello and piano.