LIVE: FAT WHITE FAMILY – 04/05/2019

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- Fat White Family’s performance at Manchester’s glorious Ritz offers an insight into the wild minds of its members, who, seemingly possessed by seedy, dark forces, are as ever electric and uncompromising. Rifling through delicious tracks from their small yet juicy back catalogue, FWF seem to have a real connection with the Manchester […]
Formed out of dark times, but with melodies to lift the heaviest of hearts, welcome to the bizarre world of the Insecure Men. They’re another band comprising members of the Fat White Family, either current or ex members (it’s often hard to tell with that lot, who’s in and who’s out!), but all maintaining the […]

ALBUM: INSECURE MEN – INSECURE MEN

JOHN CALE REVEALS 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF ‘THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO’ SOUND CITY COLLABORATORS

Global music legend John Cale has today announced the artists that will play live with him at his only European show – Liverpool Sound City, Friday 26th May 2017 – to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the revolutionary The Velvet Underground & Nico album. Joining him will be The Kills, Gruff Rhys, Clinic, Nadine Shah, Fat White Family, and Wild […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – It seems no coincidence that on one of the hottest days of the year to date, one of the hottest bands currently around hit Manchester. The Moonlandingz, a super band featuring members of Fat White Family, Slow Club and Eccentronic Research Council, have arrived fresh from the recent release of their […]

LIVE: THE MOONLANDINGZ / GOAT GIRL – 30/03/2017

THE FAT WHITE FAMILY ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF UK TOUR

The dates follow the release of their second album, Songs For Our Mothers, which is out on their own Without Consent label on Friday 22nd January 2016. The full list of shows is as follows with a date at Manchester Academy on 27th:  FEBRUARY 20th Birmingham Institute 2 21st Nottingham Rescue Rooms 22nd Sheffield Plug 23rd Dublin Whelans 25th  Belfast Limelight 26th Glasgow Garage 27th Manchester Academy […]
– VARIOUS VENUES, MANCHESTER – It’s just turned half 6 and already the evening is off to a bad start. I’m at The Roadhouse, the first stop on a long night of festivities for Dot To Dot Festival, and I’m reluctantly paying £4.50 for a pint. To make matters worse, before I can even take […]

LIVE: DOT TO DOT 2015 – 22/05/2015

ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL RELEASE NEW EP AND ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM

Eccentronic Research Council have released an EP featuring a collaboration with Fat White Family ahead of the release of their fourth album in May. The Sheffield based duo, Dean Honer and Adrian Flanagan, have today released an EP of tracks by fictional band The Moonlandingz, and the EP’s lead track, Sweet Saturn Mine, is accompanied […]
– THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – The NME awards tour has seen some huge names over the years. From Coldpay to Arctic Monkeys, they’ve had them all. It’s a tour that guarantees a great headliner and some brilliant up and coming bands. However this year, I feel that the NME have divulged into the punk direction […]

LIVE: THE NME AWARDS TOUR – 26/02/2015

THE CRIBS, PEACE AND EVERYTHING EVERYTHING FOR LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY

The Cribs, Peace and Everything Everything are the latest acts to be added to the line up for this year’s Liverpool Sound City. Other acts added in the festival’s second wave of line-up announcements include Swans, Fat White Family, Bill Ryder-Jones and Honeyblood. They join previously announced headliners Belle and Sebastian, The Flaming Lips and […]
Sufjan Stevens will play his first ever UK festival show when he headlines End of the Road Festival in September. The songwriter will play the event, which is held at Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire, on Saturday, September 5. He joins the previously announced headliners Tame Impala, who are currently readying their third album and […]

SUFJAN STEVENS TO HEADLINE END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL