Fat and Frantic
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Fat and Frantic were a humorous Christian music group who played a self-styled mixture of Gospel Music and Skiffle which they described as "Piffle".
Formed in 1985 Fat and Frantic was a particular favourite at the Greenbelt Festival.
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[edit] Band Members
Band Members were:
- Jon Soper (Fat)- Guitar, Vocals
- Silas Crawley - Washboard, Percussion, Vocals
- Jim Harris - Trumpet, Percussion, Washboard, Vocals
- Craig McLeish (Tuffie) - Bass, vocals
- Simon Saunders (Pie) - drums, vocals
Their first Album also featured John Lodge-Patch on Bass. [1] Latterly, Nigel Hemming (keyboards, vocals) also joined the band and plays on ...Wendy Craig.
[edit] Albums
- Waxing a Hottie (1986)
- Aggressive Sunbathing (1987)
- Fat and Frantic Live at the Wonky Donkey Bar & Grill (1988)
- Quirk (1990)
- Fat and Frantic sing: The Very Best of Wendy Craig (1991)
- Precious Lord (1994)
Most Albums included at least one A Cappella set. Their final album, Precious Lord, was a collection of unaccompanied Worship songs.
[edit] Current activities
Fat and Frantic stopped performing regularly in 1992. Their last Album, a departure from the norm, was issued in 1994. There was a reunion 'final gig' at Greenbelt, in 1998.
Occasionally members of the band and others, who since circa 1986/7 have formed a loose, expansive collective, independent of Fat and Frantic, play unrehearsed, sometimes shambolic rock and roll covers under the title 'Rev Softly and the Residential Areas', a nod to a sign in the car park beneath the long-since demolished ABC Bowl in North Harrow, Middlesex.
[edit] Re-released Back catalogue
In November 2007 the band's former manager Richard Bickersteth (Bocky) released digital versions of some of the Albums on the iTunes and eMusic websites.[1] These albums include:
- Aggressive Sunbathing
- Waxing a Hottie
- Wonky Donkey
- Quirk
[edit] Where are they now?
Jon Soper is now a Clergyman in the Church of England in the Diocese of Exeter.[2]
Silas Crawley is now the senior pastor of Hope Community Church in Bristol [3]
Craig McLeish currently works for a production company called Crazeltown Ltd, specialising in promoting new artists, songwriting and production and is also musical director for Young Voices[4]
Nigel Hemming is part of the leadership team of Vineyard Network Church Birmingham.
[edit] Sources
- ^ a b Fat and Frantic fan site http://www.fatandfrantic.co.uk. online. Accessed November 2007
- ^ Crockfords Clerical Directory 2006
- ^ Hope Community Church http://www.restoringhope.co.uk/ online, Accessed March 2008.
- ^ Young Voices UK Ltd. http://www.youngvoicesconcerts.com/ online, Accessed March 2008.
