Music:
Member Since: 10/05/2006
Band Website: www.thefatcats.net
Band Members: Tom - Piano & Vocals
Zag - Sax
Rob - Guitar
Vahe - Bass
Noah - Drums
Influences: Cherry Poppin' Daddies, QOTSA, The Specials
Sounds Like: If Kings of Nuthin' met QOTSA in Cab Calloway's pimp wagon, this would be blasting out the stereo!
"Deadbeat will appeal to punk fans as much as it will to rudeboys. It'll be enjoyed by swingers as much as it will by mainstream pop kids lucky enough to hear it."
- Alternative Nation
"There are some blinding tracks on this album ... they're definitely a band to watch."
- Big Cheese
"Very different, very cool!"
- Hardcore Times
"... the hip-shaking cool of swing, the attitude of punk and the skanking dance-abillity of ska to form what can only be described as pure-concentrated-awesome in plastic disc form."
- Blacklisted
"Whatever they do, whether it be jiving big-band style swing numbers of sax-led melancholia they do it with an honest passion that is just impossible to resist. Even better they do it flawlessly well."
- Bubblegum Slut
"The finest thing ever to emerge from Stoke-on-Trent music scene, this band deserves to be heard"
Deadbeat - 5 out of 5
- God is in the TV
Deadbeat - 4.5 out of 5
- Gig Wise
"The Fat Cats are full of surprises, using the favoured formula as a mere template for bigger and better things."
- New Noise
Deadbeat - 4 out of 5
- Punktastic
Deadbeat - 8 out of 10
- Pure Rock
Deadbeat - 8 out of 13
- Room Thirteen
Deadbeat - 6 out of 10
- Classic Rock
".. it has a certain charm in a Bosstones meets Frank Sinatra kinda way."
- Negative Reaction
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie