Lip Up Fatty

"Lip Up Fatty"
Single by Bad Manners
Released	1980
Genre	Ska
Length	2:49

"Lip Up Fatty" is a single released by the ska band Bad Manners in June 1980, which got to No. 15^[1] in the UK Singles Chart. It is one of a number of songs by Bad Manners about 'being fat', (a reference to the round figure of frontman, Buster Bloodvessel). According to Bloodvessel himself, ""Lip Up Fatty" was an expression used at our school "to tell people to shut up". Its signature melodic lines were a simple but careful blend of brass instruments and lead harmonica theme, played by Alan Sayag (Winston Bazoomies).

In November 2012, Tim Armstrong recorded a version as a part of his Tim Timebomb and Friends project.^[2]

In October 2014 the boxer Michael Katsidis used the track for his ringwalk ahead of his fight with Tommy Coyle in Hull. However, the music was not his personal choice and had apparently been selected by mistake. At first Katsidis refused to move on hearing the track, eventually doing so only after being told to by his entourage. Katsidis was knocked out in the second round.

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