Fat Old Man

weirder than mike skinner; easier to dance to than syd barrett

I was intrigued by Fat Old Man's material! "I Think But I Don't Know" I felt blended particularly nicely Fat Old Man's fascinating lyrics and excellent musical backing tracks. Really unique, inventive music - usually all too much of a rarity in today's music scene!

First-rate chip-shop hip-hop from the Becks-guzzling bard of Eastbourne (or lard of Eastbourne, depending on your point of view…). Home-made gems such as The Smaller Slice Of Cake and Eastbourne Pier Burning ...

"The most surprising thing about Fat old Man's music is how diverse it is. Fat Old Man manages to blend so many genres together and it came out sounding great. Very few artists can genre jump and it come out being decent, let alone very well put together like this. Each song has so many elements in it and so it is no surprise that Fat Old Man has eclectic mix of fans. He incorporates something for everyone to enjoy in his songs. The songs are happy, they are relaxing, they are silly, makes you want to dance, makes myou want to think, they are fun but serious at the same time. I think too many artists are scared to experiment and cross over into new things because they are too worried about staying 'punk' or 'metal' or 'pop' or 'hip hop' or whatever it may be and they just end up sounding generic and diluted, unlike Fat Old Man."

"Not quite as stout or aged as his name suggests, Fat Old Man looks something like a sleazier John Sessions. At one recent gig, the ironic "Bad Women and Intercourse" became an unlikely anthem adopted by the lager louts in the audience, who threw bread rolls at him until he agreed to sing it again. Fat Old Man likes a tipple on stage and is not afraid to let it all hang out while Mrs Fat operates the backing tapes and the audience is conquered by the sheer bloody cheek of his (non-) performance."

" It reminds me of Gorillaz, yet real unique." Spitz from The HAA Group.

"Yes, he's fat, he's old and he's a man, goddamit! He also lives rather appropriately in Eastbourne where it is a tradition for old people to go to spend their twilight years. Recently, the Man has been receiving a lot of e-mails from some slightly scary gangsta rappers from East LA who for some reason think he's a kindred spirit. A sort of grown-up, thinking man's The Streets with a better sense of humour. Excellent new CD Eastbourne Pier Burning is out now."

Stained: "a collection of technodelic tracks that are in keeping with the experimental spirit of early Pink Floyd."

At last, Dante's Karaoke Bar - Fat Old Man's concept album (a collection of cover versions with guest vocalists woven together by a narratated story) is finished and can be obtained from the online shop.

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soundin hot!

i love you

I love your music

Really liked "Eastbourne pier Burning", it reminds me of something but can't think what?

Enjoying your music.

I really enjoy your music

bin bouncin 2 all ur toons - up fatters

just stopped by to tell you that your music is worth listening

I love your tune Shallow

I must say you are very very talented

Liking your stuff!

by the way i love the band name haha :)

i like the songs :)

We think you're rockin BADDASS!!

your the best =]

Awesome music

Great sounds...

I love how raw the production is. it's like you captured a moment in time.

great!

just listened to it again and iTunes picked figure of fun by the birthday party to go next to it. and you know what? it didn't sit that bad. you're in good company

great track. and really seriously good arrangement and production

your music is fun. Send good energy from Hamburg

you got it HaPpnin'..................WOW

Great Page and Style..

hey, got here via a recommendation from Emyr Thomas. Nice work!!

Your tunes kind of remind me of J.J. Burnell of The Stranglers solo album.

Your lyrics make me smile!

Tunes!!

Loving your work

Truly awesome sound!

Some interesting things swirling round here.
Liking "Repo Man" in particular.

it's a real pleasure listening to your music! very inspired and charming!

Your music is great!!
And nice sound!!!!!!!

You've got a nice sound.

I think but I just... is great! Keep it up :-)

YES SAFE UR TRACKS R W8Y BRO SAFE

lovin' the tunes

I was on my way to work last week, I got out of the subway and when I went up to the surface, although it wasn't raining, there were plenty of students, foreigners, a few old people standing up at the top of the stairs blocking my way, and plenty of ugly people. As I made it out onto the street I pushed my way through some tourist and thought of you when I noticed some policemen looking at me as if they knew what was on my mind.
Yeah! South Street Seaport burning...

Your stuff is pleasingly strange and incoherant. And you're called Fat Old Man. What's missing from this picture? Nothing at all, that's what. Well done.

liking your stuff (fat old) man

Every morning I wake up in pain, there's a song in my head, it's always the same: Eastbourne Pier Burning!

Fun stuff!!!

Nice stuff with a lot of humour!

twisted in a fantasic way!!

i really like that name

Love your work

Eastbourne Pier Burning is fucking amazing

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If you want to leave a comment about Fat Old Man's music either email him at mail@fatoldman.co.uk or leave a comment at www.myspace.com/fatoldmanmusic

Reviews of recent gigs:

Gig Preview: This is a rare chance to see Eastboune's legendary, reclusive, songsmith, Fat Old Man.

It was really entertaining . The shows in Brighton & your music is fun!!

another classic F.O.M. performance!

Must say that I enjoyed your set at No Wankers Aloud last night, was most entertaining.

Fat Old Man was ace and Fat Old Man's mate was a lunatic!

Highlights for me were ... Fat Old Man's quite alarming rendition of Waiting for the Worms...

Fat Old Man's football chant could be a hit single if he cared to put it out there into the world

The Fat Old Man is a great stage performer. Also with lots of humour!

I thought Fat Old Man's set was rather good, different , and a bit of ob je dar

Pink Floyd:

Fat Old Man has always been a big fan of Pink Floyd and has performed at Pink Floyd Tribute nights doing his psychadelic/techno versions of early Pink Floyd tracks. Fat Old Man's cover version of Pink Floyd's On The Run is part of Neptune Pink Floyd's 3 CD tribute None Of Us Is Pink ans Fat Old Man's version of Waiting For The Worms is included on Neptune Pink Floyd's 3 CD tribute NPF Tribute Volume 2: The Return of the Sons of Neptune. Versions of Chapter 24 and Mathilda Mother were going to be included in an up and coming tribute CD set. Sadly due to copyright reasons the sets of CDs are no longer available at http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/ any more.

Future projects:

The new CD will be out very soon and will combine both Fat Old Man tracks and Middle Aged Psycho tracks. New tracks may become available here first. The latest track You Don't Know (Why I Can't Sleep) has elements of Fat Old Man's early weirdness from The Antitheisis trilogy of CDs. The new CD has a working title of Chaos Theory - but that might change

Fat Old Man's other current project is a band called The Middle-Aged Psychos. They have recorded a few songs including "We Are Middle Aged Psychos" which is available to download from the new page dedicated to them. Goto the link on the menu or click here Middle Aged Psychos. A Million People is now available to buy from itunes etc and now even Spotify. However the memership of the band seems to change frequently and the fact songs from the band will appear on the new CD has fuelled rumours that he will disband the group and publish the songs as Fat Old Man

The CD, Middle-Class Fantasies is now available from the online shop.and is now available from itunes, Amazon etc.

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