At seventeen years old Kate developed an unhealthy liking for unloading trucks as stage crew while at Strathclyde University. The condition persisted; by the time she moved down to London, a job at the newly formed Showlites in Herne Hill provided a cure.

Her first lampie tour was The Osmonds with Brit Row providing audio in 1979. The following decade saw her progress, as many a free-lancer does, through work with RDS, TASCO and Samuelsons Concert Productions in Cricklewood.

Somewhere in there, she passed her HGV Class 1 licence and routinely undertook double driver duties for Redburn Transfer. Highlights of touring included Live Aid, Wembley in 1985, a world tour with Tina Turner in ’87 and a decade of lighting the Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival. When parenthood interrupted her touring life, she returned to university, secured a First in English to teach at Secondary School.

Concurrently, leaning on her many solid touring contacts, Kate developed a side-line as a journalist, becoming a regular contributor to L&SI.

Now she trades as Moonstone Communications (PR), continues her relationship with LSi and LSA and delivers lectures on writing non-fiction articles to budding PR and Marketing students. If that weren’t enough, she is a competent horsewoman and regularly judges for International Level Eventing.