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Fat Rat Productions (Sound Reinforcement)

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Hello and welcome to the home of FAT RAT PRODUCTIONS. We are a small town SOUND REINFORCEMENT team of sound engineers with big ideas and a big proven track record.
The ethos of Fat Rat Productions is to give performers every opportunity to show-off their talents; whether they are young or newly established performers or seasoned professionals with a lifetime of musical experience. After all, as both musicians and sound engineers ourselves, we try our hardest to help our fellow performers show the best of themselves.
Fat Rat Productions wants each and every musician to be at ease at the gigs we work, so that the audience gets high quality entertainment - after all, every performer loves an appreciative audience - and the audience appreciates quality sound and well-organised stage management. Call it a "mutual thing" if you like, but it's the wish of the Fat Rat team that everyone should go home satisfied after the gig or concert has ended.
Fat Rat Productions has a great track record of providing sound reinforcement and stage management for musicians and performers. We organised and ran the Wyche Music Sessions on a weekly basis from June 2007 to February 2008. We also ran a similar venture at The Cavalry Arms for 18 weeks prior to the venue closing in late January 2008. We then ran weekly music sessions at The Mount Pleasant Hotel in Malvern until the end of 2008.
Since the start of 2009, Fat Rat Productions has moved away for organising gigs and has begun supporting promoters and bands at gigs, at private events and charity gigs and concerts around the Midlands.
Fat Rat Productions is proud to help musicians and promoters to run gigs by adopting the successful formula that made the sessions that we once ran ourselves so popular and well liked by performers of all musical styles and abilities.
Fat Rat Productions supported Matt Woosey & The Strange Rain with PA equipment for their campaign to complete 100 gigs in 100 days across the UK.
Fat Rat Productions supported the 2009 Upton-upon-Severn Blues Festival at The Boathouse - the most popular indoor stage of the festival with with PA equipment and Sound re-enforcement and stage management skills.
Fat Rat Productions works with Not Just Sauce providing the PA equipment and sound and stage management at the popular Acoustic Lunches at The Old Rectifying House in Worcester.
Fat Rat Productions continues to serve The Worcester Music Festival with four stages in 2009 as well as supporting local bands and performers with PA specialization and advice.
A list of performers, events and photo's and reviews of past Fat Rat Productions are posted on this site. Please dig around and discover which band/performer Fat Rat Productions are working with or which venue or promoter we are providing our sound reinforcement and production specialisation!
With luck we'll see you at one of our gigs that values good LIVE music!
Keep the faith,
Fat Rat Productions
A team of sound engineers working for local LIVE music.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/02/2008
Band Members: WORCESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2009 – THE ALBUM
OUT NOW!

Now that's What I Call Sauce - Volume 2, the official Worcester Music Festival 2009 CD, is now on sale and features some of the best performers and bands of the 2009 Festival on not a single, not a double....but a TRIPLE collection of CD's!
Over three hours of some of the artists performing at this year's Worcester Music Festival - each CD costs £5.00 (5 GBP) with £1 from every CD sold going to the two local charities we are supporting this year - Worcester Talking Newspapers for the Blind and Choice Hospital Radio.
For £20 (20 GBP) you can buy all three PLUS last year's double CD Now That's What I Call Sauce - Volume 1 (Loud and Acoustic). Hurry - these are subject to availability and while stocks last!

The CD's are available at all the venues taking part in the Festival, from local independent record shops such as The Task In Hand in the Hopmarket, directly from the artists featured on the CD, from the website www.worcestermusicfestival.co.uk, from Black Sheep Records and anywhere else you see it advertised for sale.
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SAUCE VOLUME 2 - PLAY IT "LOUD" (PART 1)
Highway 5 - Gonna Make It Big
Dandelion Killers - You'll Find Me In The Archives
Recluse - Come on Over
The Diamond Empire - Maybe
Society Crisis - A Million Miles Away
Reinforced - Shock
Pegasus Bridge - Wishing She Was You
Skewiff - Club International
The Dastards - Lonely In Between
The Spoonfedz - Marmalade Tang
Calm Like A Riot - Fame On The Game
Absolute Ataxia - Big Me Down
Mood Elevators - Gasoline
Sideways Glance - Easier
Da Vinci - Sarah

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SAUCE VOLUME 2 - PLAY IT "LOUD" (PART 2)
The Cohen Brothers - Moving On
Marina del Ray - Company Car
Marzipan Moon - So Wrong To Love You
Will Dance for Chocolate - My Mona Lisa
Becky Rose - Obsession
32 Miles To Breakfast - Before The Dawn
Stuntdog - Warm
Danse Macabre - Waiting by the Phone Box
Wes Dance - Penance
Humdrum Express - What You See
Laura Thompson - Close To You
Loungetree - Couscous Killer
Helens Evil Twin - Cliched Poet
The Retinal Circus - Seahorses in Zero Gravity
Mutlee - Welcome To The Real World

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SAUCE VOLUME 2 - PLAY IT "NOT SO LOUD"
Laszlo's Diary - Sleep On Sundays
The Abbot of Unreason - Never Tell A Woman
Ragtime Ewan - Henpeckers Grind
Izzy Border - Sail Away
Jack Blackman - 21st Century Global Crisis Blues
Adam Daffurn - I'm Not One Of Us
Flo Rowland - Hangover Blues
Memories - Eric and Eileen Payne
Chris Whiting - Please Forgive Me
Worrisome Ankle Trout - The Sea
Bruno Gallone - Best Thing
Philip Butler - To Fly A Plane
Foxtail Soup - Young Banker
Typsy Jazz - Minor Swing
The Players - Sweet Love

An eclectic mix of over two hours of some of the artists who performed at the Worcester Music Festival 2008.
Only £5 for the double album (acoustic and loud) - £2 from every double CD goes to the local charities. Performers and songs featured on the double CD are:
Neil Ivison & The Misers – Lord, Shuffle My Feet
Ten Fifty - Your Ration
The George Cowley Experience - Riot At Ikea
Highway 5 – Long Shadow
Smokestack – Smokin’ Blues
Will Dance For Chocolate – I Don’t Wanna
The Dastards – Scaffolds Of Muscle
The Dudes Of Neptune - Heavenly Storm
Fusion – World Of My Own
Calm Like A Riot – Pacifist
The Brazilians – A Girl Like You
Gamble Gamble – Are You Captain
Meteor Street – Servitors
Stuntdog - Hazard Man
The Arquettes – Roller-skates
The Fireballs – Flying Saucer Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Donns – Dot Com Star
Tenth Aggression – Under Blackened Skies.
Lou Richardson – As Long As You Win
Bruno Gallone - My Life
Harlem Dandy – A Hymn For Salvation
John Perkins – Moving On
Flo Rowland – Warning
BlueRADIO – Sumin’ It Up
Harry Payne – Inner City Night
Angelcynn – Trafalgar / Jack Tar
Foxtail Soup – Lavenders Blues
David Bristow – Easy Going Mama
Cmajor7 – Fishing For Shrimps
Babajack – Stones In My Shoe
Penny White – Satin
The Abbot Of Unreason – Ring Out The Changes
Jess Allen – Lifetime
Calming River – Solemn Witness
Anna Rice – Cold Shoulder
Jamie Knight – Last Song That I Write.

WORCESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008 – THE ALBUM

Influences:

The musical influences and styles that have wowed the audiences at the gigs and venues we have "worked" are as broad as they are long. Indeed we are proud to work along side performers and bands from a diverse range of music, such as: Acoustic Folk, Acoustic Rock, Folk Rock, Classic Rock, Blues, Indie, Metal, Death Metal, New Wave, Jazz Funk, Hip-Hop, R & B, Country/Blues, Blue Grass, Rag time, Contemporary Poetry, Photography and sometimes Air Guitar! Yep we've work with them all and hopefully Fat Rat Productions will be working with you a some point in the future!
Here are a few performers and bands we have worked with since 20th June 2007:
Velvet, The Carol Lee Sampson Band, 32/20, Sam Walters, Claire Boswell, Tracy Rock, Ray Mytton & Paul White, JackJames, Ray Stroud, Vo Fletcher, Catherine Howe, Tyler Massey, Paul & George (aka Ouja), The Abbot of Unreason, Alex Albrow, Partners in Crime, The Flaming Logs, FMC, Held By The Code, Louise Richardson, Darowyn, Highway 5, Gadgets 4 Girls, "Papa" Staples, Funkasaurus Rock, Proletariat , Guy Ford, Alienzz, Da Vinci, Epsilon Red, Zebra Chain, Slackgranny, When Darkness Falls, Funky Junky Monkey's, Natalie West, Alan J Courtney, Eric Aston, Lee Drinkwater, Pat the Rat & The Ratettes, Roxanne de Bastion, Ken & Gwen, Russ Poole, Aaron Yorke, Bruno Gallone, The Zo Show, The Dastards, James Burham, Scandal House1, The Happy Have Nots, The Arquettes, Matt Woosey & The Strange Rain, The Beach Monks, Redland, Andy McKean (of Arosa Drive), The Kevin Holmes Experience, The Mood Elevators, Matt Waddups, Kommonsense, Anna Rice, Highway 3.666, Loxley, The Mike Mann Quartet, The Ragged Crows, Marina Del Ray, Shquee, Baba Jack, HiJack Frank, Marzipan Moon, Last Exit, Sam Eden, Shane, Ten Fifty, Kristian Bishop, Scandal House2, Absolute Ataxia, [Flames Of Our Neighbours], Fellfield, Faithless Friend, Angelcynn, BlueRADIO, Flo Rowland, The Dandelion Killers, Harlem Dandy, We Do Kung-Fu, The Retinal Circus, Poor Bob's Blues, Becky Rose, The Malvern Waterboys, Jack's Hammer, Ragtime Ewan, Ursula Rose, Jamie Knight & The Acoustic Tree, Mutley, The Misers, The Players, Gwyn Ashton, Stompin' on Spiders, The Cohen Bros, The Annas and many others.....
Want to know more about Fat Rat Productions then contact the man who makes all the sound to work out just fine - Ryan "the PA Godfather" and his team of sound reinforcement engineers.
Keep the faith!
Fat Rat Productions

Sounds Like: The best live performers in the South West Midlands of England, all working at the best venues we can find.

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Phil Capaldi on BBC Hereford & Worcester Friday Sessions Introducing.....

BBC HEREFORD & WORCESTER 104 MHz & 94.7 MHz (BBCi from Saturday 29th August for one week only)The FRIDAY SESSION INTRODUCING....Featuring PHIL CAPALDI from 1800 to 1900 Hrs BSTThe musical attention o...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:34:00 GMT

Missing Speaker Cable

Hello good people,Fat Rat Productions gave free use of our small PA to the Worcester Music Festival during the weekend 21st to 23rd August for use at two venues:Little Venice in St Nicholas StreetThe ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:48:00 GMT

Review: Now That's What I Call Sauce Play It Not So Loud

Will Munn from Rhythm & Booze reviews the third of the CD compilations "Now That's What I Call Sauce Play It Not So Loud"Is this the second or third CD of this year's Worcester Music Festival Compila...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:31:00 GMT

FAT RAT PRODUCTIONS - Stage Times for WMF 2009

Hi yall, Well we have about seven days to go until the start of the 2009 Worcester Music Festival and if you are like me and the guys from FAT RAT PRODUCTIONS, youll be getting yourselves fired-...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:39:00 GMT

Worcester Music Festival 2009 - Friday 21st August 2009

 Worcester Music Festival 2009Friday 21st August 2009The Bedwardine, St John's, Worcester  Featuring:  Bruno Gallone, Andus and Drew .... Bruno Gallone is the peoples songwriter. He has ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:53:00 GMT

Worcester Music Festival 2009 - Performers on the Fat Rat Stages

The following text was submitted to the organisers of the WORCESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL for inclusion in the 2009 Worcester Music Festival brochure.We thought you would like to see who is playing and at wh...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:35:00 GMT

Worcester Music Festival - Fat Rat gig schedule & venues

Worcester Music Festival 2009Fat Rat Productions will be hosting four stages at the 2009 Worcester Music Festival. On Friday 21st August, we will be running the stage at The Old Rectifying House, on N...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:59:00 GMT

Da Vinci and our comments on BBC Radio H&W

We don't have a policy of crowing on about bands or performers, but occasionally, we have to say what we think. So when Andrew Marston asked the radio audience of the BBC Hereford & Worcester "Friday...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:43:00 GMT

In the MU? Join the Gig Section!

Join The Gig SectionIf you are a member of the Musician's Union (and we at Fat Rat Productions hope that the majority of you are?) then this will be of interest to you.The MU Gig Section has specifica...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:17:00 GMT

What's all this bollocks about bring your own audience?

There is a disturbing new factor slowly creeping into the local music scene that really has to stop. Sadly, it is prevalent in the big cities but now promoters and venue owners in the market towns of ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:29:00 GMT