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FATLAB

Songs of Beauty & Nonsense for a suffering world

About Me

Formed in Totnes in 2004 from ex- Dartington graduates. Mixing elements of Punk, Pop, Surf, Eastern European Folk tunes and Ska with three piece vocal harmonies and garage band sensibilities, Fatlab write and perform songs of beauty and nonsense.Fatlab live shows are chaotic events not to be missed, featuring dinosaur raffles, onstage fights and projections of giant insects getting it on down....

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Member Since: 2/8/2006
Band Website: Message us or mail: [email protected]
Band Members: --------------------------------------FATLAB are:------------------------------------ BECKY DUNNING - drums, voice, Grand High Poobah................................... PAUL JOHNSTONE - electric guitar, voice, bass, megaphone.......................... FERGUS RYAN - bass, voice, 12-string guitar,synths, kazoo, channelling......... ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- Satellite Members and Magic People include: Guernsey, Hayley, John, Tim C, Sildy, Tash, Tim D, Graham, Tila (magic dog, actually), Bean, Chris, Rupert, Bobby... and all the Lovely and Blessed Dancing Audiences - We Thank You! ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------
Influences: Ivor Cutler, Tom Waits, Violent Femmes, The TrashMen, Corky and the Juice Pigs, Cardiacs, Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, They Might Be Giants, The Goon Show, The Rude Staircase, Patrick Moraz, Butthole Surfers, Indigo Girls, The Tholtan Builders, The Pixies, The Chocolate Factory, Gemma, Delicate Vomit, Dub Oscillator, Queen, Gogol Bordello, The Humility Of Michael Jordan, XTC, I Sold My Gran On Ebay, Rush, early REM (like 'Murmur'), Ftumpsch, Totnes Conservative Club, The Boy Who Wanked Himself To Death, The Smiths, The The, Psychodelicide, Big Spike, Thomas Dolby, Dresden Dolls, No Brainer, NoMeansNo, Alarm Will Sound, Beck, The Divine Comedy, Beat Yourself Up, Psychic Healing For The Soulless, Tea, The New Age Is Dead, Sugababes, Henry Rollins, Music For Simpletons, Janes Addiction, Post-Ironic Psychojingle, Primitave Wainwright, The Interesting Fish, Fishbone, Graphite Dirigible, Vagdefresh, Thin Lizzy, Mercedes Peon, My Skeletal Love, Ritchie Hass And The Beatniks, The Silver Fraction, Psychic Dwarves, Coldcut, Terminal Cheesecake, The Undertones, King Crimson, Underworld, The Problem, The Stooges, Pendulum, Pudendum, Aphex Twin, Dream Academy, Nick Drake, The Bobby Magees, Ojos de Brujos, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Guesch Patti & Encore, Frank Zappa, Stumpgrinder, Sunburnt Hand of the Man, King Naat Veliov and the Original Kocani Okestar, The Bees, Ten Benson, Electric Bullroarer...
Sounds Like: The above............................
Videos:New Video! "Things That Make Me Happy" produced by Reuben Speight, AKA RES Studios and filmed by Johannes Biesta who risked life and limb making this film ..... Cheers guys!Oh look Teddy the video by Sildy Mackadie
The Trees video by Reuben Speight

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Check Out Our New Video Below - Things That Make Me Happy - (its the one at the top)

Thanks to Reuben & Jo for creating this masterpiece. We had a total hoot making this.Love, Fatlab
Posted by FATLAB on Sat, 17 May 2008 06:07:00 PST

New Album Info

Panic not folks, it's less than three weeks to go until the launch of our new album Things That Make Me Happy. The discs are being pressed as I write and the songs have been uploaded to the internet ...
Posted by FATLAB on Wed, 14 May 2008 06:31:00 PST

ALBUM RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT!

Yet another day goes by and we wonder about the life once more and will it ever get interesting.  Despair not, O faithful little rabbits, help is at hand in the form of Things That Make Me Happy,...
Posted by FATLAB on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:56:00 PST

When The Musics Over...and your leprous hand has dropped off.

So. We were becoming dixcombobulated by the general accelleration of the universe's rotation around its own axis; album mixing had been dogged by difficulty, last weekend's gig was cancelled, life eve...
Posted by FATLAB on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:26:00 PST

Scenes from a Fatlab pair of Spectacles, vol 8, ep 67

Aha!The Giant Robot Donkeys sweeping transversely across the mystical plane, we invoked the power of 'IT' and became one with the cosmos.As such, we decided to play some more gigs, so that our lovley ...
Posted by FATLAB on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:40:00 PST

Forthcoming album....

After a year of intermittent recording sessions at our secret country hideaway, our forthcoming album is finally in the process of being mixed, mangled, edited and generally being beaten into shape fo...
Posted by FATLAB on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:46:00 PST

Recent gigs - Fordstock and Surreal Saloon

Thought I would post a belated blog about the weekend of 13th and 14th July, when we played the gigs above.Friday 13th July - Surreal Saloon Exeter:Definitely one of the more unusual gigs we've played...
Posted by FATLAB on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:07:00 PST

THE LAST DAYS OF DARACOMBE HALL

AZOSK!The Halls of Caradoom have been home to Fatlab parties, rehearsals and creative recording for about a year now, and, alas, they draw quickly to a close. Those beautiful and vibrant oaken rooms, ...
Posted by FATLAB on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:49:00 PST

Bit On The Side

We played at the Bit On The Side last night. What a venue! Its a new community arts centre attached to the Palace Theatre and they have some very committed and hard working folke r...
Posted by FATLAB on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:37:00 PST

The good news or the bad news?

The good news: We are playing at the Aeon Festival Sunday 26th August, check out www.aeonfestival.com for more groovy details. Also we're booked to play the bit on the side, Paignton Friday 1st J...
Posted by FATLAB on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:28:00 PST